X:76
T:Manchester Rambler, The
C:Ewan McColl
Z:added by Alf warnock alf0@rogers.com lyrics added Cliff Robinson
W:1. The day was just ending and I was descending Down Grinesbrook just by Upper Tor
W:   When a voice cried "Hey you" in the way keepers do He'd the worst face that ever I saw
W:   The things that he said were unpleasant In the teeth of his fury I said:
W:   "Sooner than part from the mountains I think I would rather be dead"
W:   (Chorus)
W:2. He called me a louse and said "Think of the grouse" Well I thought, but I still couldn't see
W:   Why all Kinder Scout and the moors roundabout Couldn't take both the poor grouse and me
W:   He said "All this land is my master's" At that I stood shaking my head
W:   No man has the right to own mountains Any more than the deep ocean bed(
W:   (Chorus)
W:3. I once loved a maid, a spot welder by trade She was fair as the Rowan in bloom
W:   And the bloom of her eye watched the blue moorland sky I wooed her from April to June
W:   On the day that we should have been married I went for a ramble instead
W:   For sooner than part from the mountains I think I would rather be dead
W:   (Chorus)
W:4. So I'll walk where I will over mountain and hill And I'll lie where the bracken is deep
W:   I belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains Where the grey rocks lie ragged and steep
W:   I've seen the white hare in the gulleys And the curlew fly high overhead
W:   And sooner than part from the mountains I think I would rather be dead
W:   (Chorus)
M:3/4
R:waltz
L:1/8
K:Dmaj
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w:I've been ov-er Snow-don, I've slept up-on Crow-don I've camped by the Wayne-stones as well_ I've
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w:sun-bathed on Kin-der, been burned to a cin-der And ma-ny more things I can tell_My
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w:ruck-sack has oft been me pil-low_The hea-ther has oft been me bed_And 
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w:soo-ner than part from the moun-tains_I think I would ra-ther be dead 
w:CHORUS:
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w:I'm a ram-bler, I'm a ram-bler from Man-chest-er way I get all me plea-sure the hard moor-land way I
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w:may be a wage slave on Mon-day_But I have my free-dom on Sun-day