The Jolly Beggar together, and through some unmentioned premise, the daughter accuses the man of being a nobleman come dressed as a beggar to woo her. He convinces her that he is indeed only a beggar, and she kicks him out. However, it turns out he was, in fact, a noble. 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
James Orr (poet) stare While out, in boats, we bustle: Creatures wha ne’er had seen a black, Fu’ scar’t took to their shankies; Sae, wi’ our best rags on our back, We mixt amang the Yankies, An’ skail’t, that day </poem> James Orr (poet) James Orr (1770 – 24 April 1816), known as the "Bard of Ballycarry", was a poet or "rhyming weaver" from Ballycarry, Co. Antrim in the province of Ulster in Ireland, who wrote in English and Ulster Scots. He was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver Poets, and was writing contemporaneously with Robert Burns. According to that other great Ulster