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Key = D [Intro] D A D [Verse 1]
DI've been over Sonora, I've slept upon Sequoia I've camped by the Redwoods as welAl
I've sunbathed in Bishop, been burned to a crisp
And many more things I can Dtell My backpack has oft been my Apillow The granite has oft been my Dbed And sooner than part from the Amountains I think I would rather be Ddead
[Chorus]
DI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Adown by the bay I get all my pleasure the Dhard-working way I may be a wage slave onA Monday But I am a free soul on DSunday
[Verse 2]
DThe day was just ending and I was descending Down San Jacinto by Palm SpringAs
When a voice cried "Hey you" in the way guards do
He'd the worst face that ever I Dsaw The things that he said were unApleasant In the teeth of his fury I Dsaid "Sooner than part from the Amountains I think I would rather be Ddead"
[Chorus]
DI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Adown by the bay I get all my pleasure the Dhard-working way I may be a wage slave onA Monday But I am a free soul on DSunday
[Verse 3]
DHe called me dirty and said "private property" Well i thought, but I still couldn't Asee
Why all Martin's beach and the coast roundabout
Couldn't take both the billionare and mDe He said "All this land is my Amaster's" At that I stood shaking my Dhead No man has the right to own Amountains Any more than the deep ocean Dbed
[Chorus]
DI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Adown by the bay I get all my pleasure the Dhard-working way I may be a wage slave onA Monday But I am a free soul on DSunday
[Verse 3]
CI once loved a maid, a spot welder by trade She was bright as the poppy iGn bloom
And the bloom of her eye watched the blue scrubland sky
I wooed her from April to CJune On the day that we should have been Gmarried I went for a ramble inCstead For sooner than part from the Gmountains I think I would rather be Cdead
[Chorus]
DI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Adown by the bay I get all my pleasure the Dhard-working way I may be a wage slave onA Monday But I am a free soul on DSunday
[Verse 4]
CSo I'll walk where I will over mountain and hill And I'll lie where the pine duff iGs deep
I belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains
Where the grey rocks lie ragged and Csteep I've seen the white-tailed deer Gin the valleys And the condor fly high overChead And sooner than part from the Gmountains I think I would rather be Cdead
[Chorus]
DI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Adown by the bay I get all my pleasure the Dhard-working way I may be a wage slave onA Monday But I am a free soul on DSunday