Rover - Jethro Tull

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

Cause 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

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

Cause I’m a Rover

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

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

Cause I’m a Rover