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
Sleep No More (The Comsat Angels album) when the offices were closed!" Fellows felt the album "Sleep No More" had a unique quality among the band's work: "The only [album] which had a 'thread' through it was "Sleep No More", the 'thread' was the sound we wanted to get." Critics recognized it as a great follow-up to "Waiting for a Miracle". AllMusic later said, ""Sleep No More" is certainly more powerful, and it's also a greater achievement. Here The Comsat Angels became one of the era's exceptional bands." In a 1981 review, Mark Cooper of "Sounds" wrote that it was "an album that is head and shoulders