Well I'm a rake and a rambling 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 a rambling 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 white snow dove To tell the world that I died for love Well I'm a rake and a rambling 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