Well I`m a rake and ramblin` boy
There`s many a city I did enjoy
And now I`ve married me a pretty little wife
and I love her dearer than I love my life
Oh, she was pretty, both neat and gay
caused me to rob the broad highway
Oh, yes, I robbed it, I do declare.
And I got myself ten thousand bail.
Well I`m a rake and ramblin` boy.
There`s many a city I did enjoy,
And now I`ve married me a pretty little wife
and I love her dearer than I love my life
Oh when I die don`t bury me at all
place my bones in alcohol
and at my feet place a snow white dove
to let the world know I died for love
Well I`m a rake and a ramblin` boy
There`s many a city I did enjoy
And now I`ve married me a pretty little wife
and I love her dearer than I love my life
and I love her dearer than I love my life
Well I`m a rake and ramblin` boy
There`s many a city I did enjoy
And now I`ve married me a pretty little wife
and I love her dearer than I love my life
Oh, she was pretty, both neat and gay
caused me to rob the broad highway
Oh, yes, I robbed it, I do declare.
And I got myself ten thousand bail.
Well I`m a rake and ramblin` boy.
There`s many a city I did enjoy,
And now I`ve married me a pretty little wife
and I love her dearer than I love my life
Oh when I die don`t bury me at all
place my bones in alcohol
and at my feet place a snow white dove
to let the world know I died for love
Well I`m a rake and a ramblin` boy
There`s many a city I did enjoy
And now I`ve married me a pretty little wife
and I love her dearer than I love my life
and I love her dearer than I love my life