PLANXTY- The Jolly Beggar

Tabbed by: Stud_Muffin
Email: bryn_bass@hotmail.co.uk
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 (133211@1)      | G (320003@1)     ||

||C      |F       |C         |G        ||

||C      |C       ||

Verse 1:

C (x32010@1)             
There was a jolly beggarman
     F (133211@1)               GCame (320003@1)tripping o'er the plain
    C (x32010@1)       FHe (133211@1)came unto a farmer's door
   C (x32010@1)           GA (320003@1)lodging for to gain
    C (x32010@1)              
The farmer's daughter she came down
    F (133211@1)                  GAnd (320003@1)viewed him cheek and chin
    C (x32010@1)            FShe (133211@1)says "He is a handsome man
   C (x32010@1)               GI (320003@1)pray you take him in"

Chorus:

C (x32010@1)We'll go no more a roving
   F (133211@1)          GA (320003@1)roving in the night
     C (x32010@1)           FWe'll (133211@1)go no more a roving
        C (x32010@1)            GLet (320003@1)the moon shine so bright
      CWe'll (x32010@1)go no more a roving



Verse 2:

CHe (x32010@1)would not lie within the barn
    F (133211@1)            GNor (320003@1)yet within the byre
     C (x32010@1)            FBut (133211@1)he would in the corner lie
   C (x32010@1)              GDown (320003@1)by the kitchen fire
  CO (x32010@1)then the beggar's bed was made
    F (133211@1)                  GOf (320003@1)good clean sheets and hay
   C (x32010@1)              FAnd (133211@1)down beside the kitchen fire
    C (x32010@1)          GThe (320003@1)jolly beggar lay

Chorus:

C (x32010@1)We'll go no more a roving
   F (133211@1)          GA (320003@1)roving in the night
     C (x32010@1)           FWe'll (133211@1)go no more a roving
        C (x32010@1)            GLet (320003@1)the moon shine so bright
      CWe'll (x32010@1)go no more a roving

Verse 3:

CThe (x32010@1)farmer's daughter she got up
   F (133211@1)              GTo (320003@1)bolt the kitchen door
    C (x32010@1)             FAnd (133211@1)there she saw the beggar
         G (320003@1)          GStanding (320003@1)naked on the floor
   CHe (x32010@1)took the daughter in his arms
   F (133211@1)            GAnd (320003@1)to the bed he ran
    C (x32010@1)                FKind (133211@1)sir, she says, be easy now
       C (x32010@1)            GYou'll (320003@1)waken our good man



Chorus:

C (x32010@1)We'll go no more a roving
   F (133211@1)          GA (320003@1)roving in the night
     C (x32010@1)           FWe'll (133211@1)go no more a roving
        C (x32010@1)            GLet (320003@1)the moon shine so bright
      CWe'll (x32010@1)go no more a roving

Verse 4:

CNow (x32010@1)you are no beggar
    F (133211@1)       GYou (320003@1)are some gentleman
    C (x32010@1)                FFor (133211@1)you have stolen my maidenhead
    C (x32010@1)         GAnd (320003@1)I am quite undone
  CI (x32010@1)am no lord, I am no squire
   F (133211@1)          GOf (320003@1)beggars I be one
   C (x32010@1)               FAnd (133211@1)beggars they be robbers all
    C (x32010@1)             GSo (320003@1)now you're quite undone

Last Chorus:
      
      CWe'll (x32010@1)go no more a roving
   F (133211@1)          GA (320003@1)roving in the night
      C (x32010@1)           FWe'll (133211@1)go no more a roving
        C (x32010@1)           GLet (320003@1)the moon shine so bright
       C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)    C(end) (x32010@1)We'll go no more a roving