oh there're sober men in plenty and drunkards barely twenty there are men of over ninety that have never yet kissed a girl but gie me a ramblin' rover and fae orkney down to dover we will roam the country over and together we'll face the world there's many that feign enjoyment from merciless employment their ambition was this deployment from the minute they left the school and they save and scrape and ponder while the rest go out and squander see the world and rove and wander and are happier as a rule i've roamed through all the nations ta'en delight in all creation and i've tried a wee sensation where the company did prove kind and when partin' was no pleasure i've drunk another measure to the good friends that were treasure for they always are in our minds if you're bent wi' arth-i-ritis your bowels have got colitis you've gallopin' with bollockitis and you're thinkin' it's time you died if you been a man of action though you're lying there in traction you will get some satisfaction thinkin' "jesus at least i tried"