Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Jolly Beggar - Reel, artist - Planxty. Album song Planxty, in the genre Кельтская музыка
Date of issue: 19.06.2005
Record label: Shanachie
Song language: English
The Jolly Beggar - Reel |
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 says, He is a handsome man. |
I pray you take him in |
We’ll go no more a roving, a roving in the night |
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright |
We’ll go no more a roving |
He would not lie within the barn nor yet within the byre |
But he would in the corner lie down by the kitchen fire |
O 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 goodman |
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 re quite undone |
She took the bed and threw it to the wall |
Said go you beggar go the well |