the Jolly Beggar lyrics

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

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

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

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

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

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

She tok the bed in both her hands

And threw it at the wall

Says go you with beggar man

My maidenhead and all

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