THE JOLLY BEGGAR
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And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.
Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.
“They’ll rive a’ my meal pocks, and do me meikle wrang.”meal bags
“O dool for the doing o’t! are ye the poor man?”
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving
Sae late into the night,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.
“O dool for the doing o’t! are ye the poor man?”
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving
Sae late into the night,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.
Then she took up the meal pocks, and flang them o’er the wa’;
“The deil gae wi’ the meal pocks, my maiden head, and a’!”
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving
Sae late into the might,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.
“The deil gae wi’ the meal pocks, my maiden head, and a’!”
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving
Sae late into the might,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.
“I took ye for some gentleman, at least the laird of Brodie;
O dool for the doing o’t! are ye the poor bodie?”
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving
Sae late into the night,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.
O dool for the doing o’t! are ye the poor bodie?”
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving
Sae late into the night,
And we’ll gang nae mair a roving, boys,
Let the moon shine ne’er so bright.
