The Jolly Beggar - Reel - Planxty

Written by：Christy Moore/Donal Lunny/Liam O'flynn

It's of a jolly beggar man 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 good man

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 are 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 took the bed book him arms and threw it to the wall

Said go you with beggar man my name has to know

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