The Jolly Beggar The Jolly Beggar The Jolly Beggar also known as The Gaberlunzieman is Child ballad 279. The song's chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron's poem "So, we'll go no more a roving." 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
So, we'll go no more a roving thus: He took the lassie in his arms, and to bed he ran,<br> O hooly, hooly wi' me, Sir, ye'll waken our goodman!<br> And we'll go no more a roving<br> Sae late into the night,<br> And we'll gang nae mair a roving, boys,<br> Let the moon shine ne'er sae bright.<br> And we'll gang nae mair a roving.<br> The poem appears as "Go No More A-Roving" on the 2004 Leonard Cohen album, "Dear Heather". It has been recorded by Ariella Uliano on her 2009 album 'A.U. (almost) a Compilation'. It was also recorded by Joan Baez on her 1964 "Joan Baez/5"