Name: The Beggin'
Channel: Sung by David Rovics
Description: Free MP3 download! Licensing options are available for this track. I think the melody of this song is particularly haunting. It's an old English song about living on the street.

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I think the melody of this song is particularly haunting. It's an old English song about living on the street.

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David Rovics

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Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #200

Peak in subgenre #21

Author

Sung by David Rovics

Rights

Written by Anonymous

Uploaded

June 14, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 8.6 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

I think the melody of this song is particularly haunting. It's an old English song about living on the street.

Lyrics

(by Author Unknown)

I am a lonesome beggar, I have a wooden leg
Lame from the cradle and forced for to beg
And a-beggin' I will go, a-beggin' I will go

I've a little bag for oatmeal and another one for salt
On me two wee bonnie crutches you can see me weave and halt
And a-beggin' I will go, a-beggin' I will go

Seven years I begged for me old master Wilde
He taught me how to beg, sir, when I was but a child
And a-beggin' I will go, a-beggin' I will go

Seven years I begged for him, brought him store of pelf
Now the lord be praised, sir, I'm beggin' for meself
And a-beggin' I will go, a-beggin' I will go

Of all the jobs in England, beggin' is the best
For when a beggar's tired he can lay it down and rest
And a-beggin' I will go, a-beggin' I will go

Yes, of all the jobs in England, beggin' is the one
For we live a life of "going to do" and die with nothing done
And a-beggin' I will go, a-beggin' I will go

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