Rove Riley Rove - Banjo - Folk song

Rove, Riley, Rove is an old time traditional folk song. I play it on a wood top banjo.

Rove, Riley, Rove-Traditional lyrics
Mountain banjo in double C tuning only lower, I think I`m in low octave F tuning

Went upon a mountain
To give my horn a blow
Thought I hear my pretty girl say
Yonder comes by beau

Chorus:
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, poor boy
Ain't got nowhere to go

Daddy give me meat
Mother give me bread
Pretty girl give me one sweet kiss
Like to done killed me dead

Chorus:
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, poor boy
Ain't got nowhere to go

Eighteen pounds of meat a week
and whiskey here to sell
How can a young man be at home
pretty girls look so well

Chorus:
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, poor boy
Ain't got nowhere to go

Daddy built a great big house
sixteen stories high
Every story in that house
Was filled with chicken pie

Chorus:
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, poor boy
Ain't got nowhere to go

Went up on the mountain
To strip me a load of cane
Make me a barrel of molasses
To sweeten Miss Liza Jane

Chorus:
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, poor boy
Ain't got nowhere to go

Possum is a pretty thing
She rambles in the dark
The only time you know she's round
Is when you hear my hound dog bark

Chorus:
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, Rove
Rove, Riley, poor boy
Ain't got nowhere to go