The Jolly Beggar

The Jolly Beggar

The Jolly Beggar is Child ballad 279. The song's chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron's poem So, we'll go no more a roving.

ynopsis

A beggar comes over the hills one day, and knocks on the door of a local farmer and asks for a roof for the night. Curiously, he will not accept a bed in the barn, but wishes only to sleep by the kitchen fire. Late at night, the farmer's daughter comes down to lock the kitchen door. The beggar and daughter exchange words, and fall in love. They sleep together, and through some unmentioned premise, the daughter accuses the man of being a nobleman come dressed as a beggar to woo her. He proves to her that he is indeed only a beggar, but she is still upset.

ee also

*The Beggar-Laddie

Versions

* Planxty have recorded a version of this song on their eponymous 1973 album as "The Jolly Beggar".

External links

* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch279.htm "The Jolly Beggar"]
* [http://www.contemplator.com/child/gaberlunz.html "The Gaberlunzie Man"] , a variant


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