The Jolly Beggarman

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"

Chorus (after each verse):

We'll go no more a-roving

A-roving in the night

We'll go no more a-roving

Let the moon shine out so bright

We'll go no more a-roving

He would no 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 hands 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 did steal 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"

(Chorus 2x)

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