The Rambling Siuler - Planxty

Oh the highland lands are come to town

And landed in head waters

The colonel fell for a pretty little girl

The farmer’s only daughter

The general bet five thousand pounds

The colonel wouldn’t dress up in a beggars gowns

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Would she travel the world around and round

Would she go with the rambling siuler

Oh the colonel started out next day

Dressed in beggars clothing

It wasn’t long til he found his way

To the farmer’s lowly dwelling

«Oh farmer shelter me for the night

I’ll sleep in your barn until daylight

Take pity on a beggar’s awful plight

God help a rambling siuler.»

The farmer said, «The night is wet

You can come to the kitchen fire.»

The colonel says to the serving maid

«It's you I do admire

Would you leave them all and come with me

Leave them all my stor mo chroi»

«What a lusty beggar you must be

Away with the rambling siuler!»

The farmer and his servants all

They fell into loud laughter

When who came tripping down the stairs

But the farmer’s only daughter

She’d two bright eyes like the morning skies

Soon as the beggar he did her spy

She fairly caught his roving eye

«She'll be mine, «says the rambling siuler

And the farmer and his servants all

They went out to the byre

He put his arm around her waist

As they sat by the kitchen fire

He put his hand upon her knee

Unto her gave kisses three

Says she, «How dare you make so free

And it’s you but a rambling siuler.»

When supper it was over

They made his bed in the barn

Between two sacks and a winnow cloth

For fear that he take harm

At twelve o’clock that very night

She came to the barn

She was dressed in white

The beggar rose in great delight

«She's mine, «says the rambling siuler

And he threw off his beggar’s clothes

He threw them against the wall

He stood the bravest gentleman

That was among them all

Will you look at my locks of golden hair

Under this sooty old hat I wear

«I'm a colonel bold I do declare, and none but a

Rambling siuler.»

«And I wouldn’t for one hundred pounds

That you and I be found here

Would you travel around the whole night long

And go with the rambling siuler, «So it’s off to the general’s house they’ve gone

Great is the wager he has won

And away to the sound of the fife and the drum

She’s away with the rambling siuler