Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Jolly Beggar, artist - Fiddler's Green. Album song Acoustic Pub Crawl, in the genre Фолк-рок
Date of issue: 20.09.2012
Record label: Deaf Shepherd
Song language: English
The Jolly Beggar |
It’s of a jolly beggarman |
Came tripping o’er the plain |
He came unto a farmer’s door |
A lodging for to gain |
The farmer’s daughter She came down |
And viewed him cheek and chin |
She said: «He is a handsome man |
I pray you take him in» |
He would not lie within the barn |
Nor yet within the byre |
But he would in the corner lie |
Down by the kitchen fire |
Oh then the beggar’s bed was made |
Of good clean sheets and hay |
And down beside the kitchen fire |
The jolly beggar lay |
The farmer’s daughter she got up |
To bolt the kitchen door |
And there she saw the beggar standing |
Naked on the floor |
He took the daughter in his arms |
And to the bed he ran |
«Kind sir» she says «Be easy now |
You’ll waken our good man» |
«Now you are no beggar |
You are some gentleman |
For you have stolen my maidenhead |
And I am quite undone» |
«I am no Lord I am no squire |
Of beggars I be one |
And beggars they be robbers all |
So you are quite undone» |
She took her bed in both her hands |
And threw it at the wall |
Says «Go ye with the beggarman |
My maidenhead and all» |
We’ll go no more aroving |
Aroving in the night |
We’ll go no more aroving |
Let the moon shine so bright |
We’ll go no more aroving |