About The Song
“The Wanderer” is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion. The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the story of a travelling man and his many loves. The song is ranked #243 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Maresca had co-written Dion’s previous # 1 hit, “Runaround Sue”, but originally intended “The Wanderer” to be recorded by another group, Nino and the Ebbtides. They passed on it in favour of another Maresca song, so Dion was given it as the B-side of his follow-up single, “The Majestic”, a song which his record company had chosen for him. The record was turned over by radio DJs who preferred “The Wanderer”, which duly entered the US charts in December 1961 and rose to # 2 in early 1962. It also reached # 10 in the UK and # 1 in Australia.
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXqWCeB8Vto
Lyrics
Oh, well, I’m the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty girls are, well, you know that I’m around
I kiss ’em and I love ’em ’cause to me they’re all the same
I hug ’em and I squeeze ’em they don’t even know my name
They call me the wanderer
Yeah, the wanderer
I roam around, around, around, around
Oh, well, there’s Flo on my left and there’s Mary on my right
And Janie is the girl, well, that I’ll be with tonight
And when she asks me, which one I love the best?
I tear open my shirt and I show her “Rosie” on my chest
‘Cause I’m a wanderer
Yeah, the wanderer
I roam around, around, around, around
Oh, well, I roam from town to town
I go through life without a care
And I’m as happy as a clown
I with my two fists of iron but I’m going nowhere
I’m the type of guy that likes to roam around
I’m never in one place, I roam from town to town
And when I find myself fallin’ for some girl
Yeah, I hop right into that car of mine, I drive around the world
Yeah I’m a wanderer
Yeah, a wanderer
I roam around, around, around, around
Oh yeah, I’m the type of guy that likes to roam around
I’m never in one place, I roam from town to town
And when I find myself a-fallin’ for some girl
I hop right into that car of mine and drive around the world
‘Cause I’m a wanderer
Yeah, the wanderer
I roam around, around, around, around
Yeah, I’m the wanderer
Yeah, I’m a wanderer
I roam around, around, around, around
They call me the wanderer
Yeah, I’m a wanderer
I roam around, around, around, around
cuong 
Barbara Desetto