Cara Dillon - I Am A Youth That's Inclined To Ramble lyrics

I am a youth that's inclined to ramble

To some foreign country I mean to steer

I am loath to part from my friends and comrades

And my dear sweetheart, whom I loved dear

But there's one of those I do most admire

One her I'll think when I'm far away

For since fates decreed I am resolved to part her

And try my fortune in America

So farewell darling, I must leave you

I place great dependence on your constancy

That no other young man may gain your favour

Or change your mind when I am over sea

For although the seas they do separate us

And in between us they do rise and fall

If fortune favours me you'll find your Jamie

Returning homeward from America

Oh Jamie dear, do you remember

When I sat with you for many's the hour?

And my young fancy away was carried

And the bees hummed around on each opening flower

But when you're crossing the western ocean

The maid that loved you, you'll ne'er mind afar

And you'll scarce e'er think upon the maids of Erin

For you'll find strange sweethearts in America

Oh Mary dear, I don't dissemble

For to all other fair maids I'll prove untrue

And if you think these are false promises

I'll leave these vows as a pledge to you

That what I have may prove unsuccessful

And fortune prove to me a slippery ball

That a favouring gale it may n'er blow on me

If I forsake you in America

And to conclude to end these verses

May God protect this young female fair

And keep her from every wild embarrassment

And of my darling take the greatest care

For she's slow to anger and of kind disposition

And her cheeks like roses in June do blow

In my nightly slumbers when e'er I think of her

I will court her vision in America