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As I Roved Out

The lyrics to this version of As I Roved Out tells the story of a young man who rejects his true love and marries another woman because she has land. It’s a decision he will regret for the rest of his life.

As I Roved Out - Andy Irvine
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The chords are presented here in the key of C Major. The song is a little unusual because it doesn’t end on the root chord or key chord. Instead, each verse ends of the fifth chord of the scale, which in this case is G Major.

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Planxty performed this song originally in F Major. Place a capo on the fifth fret and play the chord shapes below to play in F Major. In later years, they sometimes dropped the key to E Major. Place the capo on the fourth fret to play in E Major.

As I Rode Out Lyrics and Chords

 

As  

Dm 

I roved  

F 

out, on a  

C 

bright May  

F 

mor

C 

ning,

 

To  

F 

view the  

Am 

meadows and  

Dm 

flowers 

 

 

G 

gay

 

Whom  

F 

should I  

Am 

spy but my  

Dm 

own true lo

Am 

ver

 

As  

F 

she sat under yon  

G 

willow 

 

tree.

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I took off my hat and I did salute her,

I did salute her, courageously.

When she turned around, well, the tears fell from her

Saying, “False young man, you have deluded me.”

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“A diamond ring I own I gave you,

A diamond ring to wear on your right hand”

“But the vows you made, love, you went and broke them

And married the lassie that had the land.”

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“If I married the lassie that had the land, my love,

It’s that I’ll rue… Until the day I die

When misfortune falls, no man can shun it

I was a blindfolded, I’ll ne’er deny.”

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Now at nights when I go to my bed of slumber

The thoughts of my true love run in my mind

When I turn around to embrace my darling

Instead of gold, it is brass I find.

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And I wish the Queen would call home her army,

From the West Indies, Amerikay and Spain

And every man to his wedded woman

In hopes that you and I will meet again.

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