Planxty – The Jolly Beggar chords

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        | G       ||

||C      |F       |C         |G        ||    

||C      |C       ||

Verse 1:

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

Chorus:

      C We'll go no more a roving
   F            GA roving in the night
     C             FWe'll go no more a roving
        C              GLet the moon shine so bright
      CWe'll go no more a roving



Verse 2:


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

Chorus:

      C We'll go no more a roving
   F            GA roving in the night
     C             FWe'll go no more a roving
        C              GLet the moon shine so bright
      CWe'll go no more a roving


Verse 3:


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



Chorus:

      C We'll go no more a roving
   F            GA roving in the night
     C             FWe'll go no more a roving
        C              GLet the moon shine so bright
      CWe'll go no more a roving


Verse 4:

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


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