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Friends, Rodents, Countrymice, prick up your ears
And attend to this ditty of mine
And if it should please you to buy me a beer
Then I’ll sing you a song sweet as wine

I’ve roamed this world over, a rat-tailed rover
A scholar of poem and song
So buy me an ale, and I’ll spin you a tale
For tomorrow, I’m roving along

I’ve crossed the great waters, I’ve wooed sons and daughters
Of rat-kings and vole-counts galore
But leave ‘em I must, for I’m slave to my wanderlust
Shipping my songs shore to shore

I’ve roamed this world over, a rat-tailed rover
A scholar of poem and song
So buy me an ale, and I’ll spin you a tale
For tomorrow, I’m roving along

And I’ll share for a florin the Horned Rats of Corinth’s dance
Learned from an aged Rhatsode
As they danced Bacchanals by the Isthmus canal
To the strain of the Dorian mode

I’ve roamed this world over, a rat-tailed rover
A scholar of poem and song
So buy me an ale, and I’ll spin you a tale
For tomorrow, I’m roving along

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from Rat​-​Tailed Rover: Songs from Small Saga, released December 5, 2022
Music and lyrics by Kofi Young

With thanks to Jeremy Noghani

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