The Jolly BeggarmanHe 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" Chorus 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 Oh then the beggar's bed was made of good clean sheets and hay And down beside the kitchen fire the jolly beggar lay Chorus 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." Chorus "Now you are no beggar, you are some gentleman For you have stolen my maiden-head 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." Chorus She took the bed in both her hands and threw it at the wall Say, "Go you with the beggar man, my maiden-head and all" Chorus Instrumental Verse and Chorus |