The Jolly Beggar Chords & Lyrics by Planxty
The Jolly Beggar
guitar chords lyrics
PLANXTY- The Jolly Beggar
Tabbed by: Stud_Muffin
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Tuning:
EADGBe, but I perform it in my version of open C
(CGCEGC, which is a whole step down from open D,
as opposed to the more traditional open C tuning, CGCGCE)
Chords used:
EADGBe
C:X32010
F:133211 or XX3211
G:320033
CGCEGC
C:000000
F:500500
G:X02300
Intro (same as chorus progression):
||C |C | F | G ||
||C |F |C |G ||
||C |C ||
Verse 1:
C
There was a jolly beggarman
F G
Came tripping o'er the plain
C F
He came unto a farmer's door
C G
A lodging for to gain
C
The farmer's daughter she came down
F G
And viewed him cheek and chin
C F
She says "He is a handsome man
C G
I pray you take him in"
Chorus:
C
We'll go no more a roving
F G
A roving in the night
C F
We'll go no more a roving
C G
Let the moon shine so bright
C
We'll go no more a roving
Verse 2:
C
He would not lie within the barn
F G
Nor yet within the byre
C F
But he would in the corner lie
C G
Down by the kitchen fire
C
O then the beggar's bed was made
F G
Of good clean sheets and hay
C F
And down beside the kitchen fire
C G
The jolly beggar lay
Chorus:
C
We'll go no more a roving
F G
A roving in the night
C F
We'll go no more a roving
C G
Let the moon shine so bright
C
We'll go no more a roving
Verse 3:
C
The farmer's daughter she got up
F G
To bolt the kitchen door
C F
And there she saw the beggar
G G
Standing naked on the floor
C
He took the daughter in his arms
F G
And to the bed he ran
C F
Kind sir, she says, be easy now
C G
You'll waken our good man
Chorus:
C
We'll go no more a roving
F G
A roving in the night
C F
We'll go no more a roving
C G
Let the moon shine so bright
C
We'll go no more a roving
Verse 4:
C
Now you are no beggar
F G
You are some gentleman
C F
For you have stolen my maidenhead
C G
And I am quite undone
C
I am no lord, I am no squire
F G
Of beggars I be one
C F
And beggars they be robbers all
C G
So now you're quite undone
Last Chorus:
C
We'll go no more a roving
F G
A roving in the night
C F
We'll go no more a roving
C G
Let the moon shine so bright
C G C (end)
We'll go no more a roving
