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It’s of a jolly beggar man |
| C | |
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Came tripping o’er the plane |
| F G | |
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He came unto a farmer’s door |
| C F | |
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A lodging for to gain |
| C G | |
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The farmer’s daughter she came down |
| C | |
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And viewed him cheek and chin |
| F G | |
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She says he is a handsome man |
| C F | |
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I pray he’ll take him in |
| C G | |
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We’ll go no more a roving |
| C | |
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A roving in the night |
| F G | |
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We’ll go no more a roving |
| C F | |
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Let the moon shine so bright |
| C G | |
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We’ll go no more a roving |
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2 |
He would not lie within the barn |
| C | |
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Nor yet within the byre |
| F G | |
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But he would in the corner lie down |
| C F | |
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By the kitchen fire |
| C G | |
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Oh then the beggars bed was made |
| C | |
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Of good clean sheets and hay |
| F G | |
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And down beside the kitchen fire |
| C F | |
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The jolly beggar lay |
| C G | |
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3 |
The farmer’s daughter she got up to |
| C | |
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bolt the kitchen door |
| F G | |
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And there she saw the beggar standing |
| C F | |
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Naked on the floor |
| C G | |
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He took the daughter in his arms and |
| C | |
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To the bed he ran |
| F G | |
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Kind sir she said be easy now you’ll |
| C F | |
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Waken our good man |
| C G | |
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