I know the pools where the grayling rise,
I know the trees where the filberts fall,
I know the woods where the red fox lies,
The twisted elms where the brown owls call.
And I’ ve seldom a shilling to call my own,
And there’ s never a girl I’ d marry,
I thank the Lord I’ m a rolling stone
With never a care to carry.
I talk to the stars as they come and go
On every night from July to June,
I’ m free of the speech of the winds that blow,
And I know what weather will sing what tune.
I sow no seed and I pay no rent,
And I thank no man for his bounties,
But I’ ve a treasure that’ s never spent,
I’ m lord of a dozen counties.