C . Well I'm a rake and a rambling boy F C There's many a city I did enjoy F C And now I've married me a pretty little wife G C And I love her dearer than I love my life C . Oh, she was pretty, both neat and gay F C Caused me to rob the broad highway F C Oh, yes, I robbed it, I do declare G C And I got myself ten thousand bail C . Well I'm a rake and a rambling boy F C There's many a city I did enjoy F C And now I've married me a pretty little wife G C And I love her dearer than I love my life C . Oh when I die don't bury me at all F C Place my bones in alcohol F C And at my feet place a white snow dove G C To tell the world that I died for love C . Well I'm a rake and a rambling boy F C There's many a city I did enjoy F C And now I've married me a pretty little wife G C And I love her dearer than I love my life G C And I love her dearer than I love my life