I chase your every footstep
              
              
                and I follow every whim.
              
              
                When you call the tune I'm ready
              
              
                to strike up the battle hymn.
              
              
                My lady of the meadows ---
              
              
                My comber of the beach ---
              
              
                You've thrown the stick for your dog's trick
              
              
                but it's floating out of reach.
              
              
                The long road is a rainbow and the pot of gold lies there.
              
              
                So slip the chain and I'm off again ---
              
              
                You'll find me everywhere. I'm a Rover.
              
              
                 
              
              
                As the robin craves the summer
              
              
                to hide his smock of red,
              
              
                I need the pillow of your hair
              
              
                in which to hide my head.
              
              
                I'm simple in my sadness,
              
              
                resourceful in remorse.
              
              
                Then I'm down straining at the lead ---
              
              
                holding on a windward course.
              
              
                 
              
              
                Strip me from the bundle
              
              
                of balloons at every fair:
              
              
                colourful and carefree ---
              
              
                Designed to make you stare.
              
              
                But I'm lost and I'm losing
              
              
                the thread that holds me down.
              
              
                And I'm up hot and rising
              
              
                in the lights of every town.