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47 lines
1.4 KiB
47 lines
1.4 KiB
13 years ago
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\selectlanguage{english}
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\songcolumns{2}
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\beginsong{Jolly Beggar}[by=Traditional]
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\lilypond{the_jolly_beggar}
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\beginverse
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It's of a jolly beggarman came tripping o'er the plain
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He came unto a farmer's door a lodging for to gain
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The farmer's daughter she came down and viewed him cheek and chin
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She says: "He is a handsome man, I pray you take him in"
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\endverse
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\beginchorus
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We'll go no more aroving, aroving in the night
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We'll go no more aroving, let the moon shine so bright
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We'll go no more aroving
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\endchorus
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\beginverse
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He would not lie within the barn nor yet within the byre
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But he would in the corner lie down by the kitchen fire
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Oh then the beggar's bed was made of good clean sheets and hay
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And down beside the kitchen fire the jolly beggar lay
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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The farmer's daughter she got up to bolt the kitchen door
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And there she saw the beggar standing naked on the floor
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He took the daughter in his arms and to the bed he ran
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"Kind sir" she says "Be easy now, you'll waken our good man"
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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"Now you are no beggar, you are some gentleman,
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For you have stolen my maidenhead and I am quite undone"
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"I am no lord, I am no squire, of beggars I be one,
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And beggars they be robbers all, so you are quite undone"
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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She took her bed in both her hands and threw it at the wall
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Says "Go ye with the beggarman, my maidenhead and all!"
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\endverse
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\endsong
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