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'''IT WAS AN OLD BEGGERMAN'''. Irish, Air (6/8 time). Ireland, Donegal. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.
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''It was an old Beggarman weary and wet''<br>
''And down by the fireside he sat''<br>
''He threw down his bags and his broken staff''<br>
''And merrily he did sing.''<br>
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''My dear, said he, if I were as free''<br>
''As when I first came to this countrie,''<br>
''I'd dress you up, all beggarly,''<br>
''And away with me you should gang-oh.''<br>
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''With his pipe in his jaw''<br>
''And his jaw full of smoke,''<br>
''And the dribbles hang down''<br>
''To the breast of his cloak;''<br>
''His bag on his back''<br>
''And his staff in his hand,''<br>
''He's a jolly old Beggarman-oh.''<br>
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''Source for notated version'': "From Mr. Allingham" [Stanford/Petrie]. According to Caoimhin Mac Aoidh (1994), Petrie's source was William Allingham, a fiddler and customs officer of Donegal Town, Donegal, who collected this local tune in the Ballyshannon area. Allingham died in 1889. 
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''Printed sources'': Stanford/Petrie ('''Complete Collection'''), 1905; No. 678, p. 170. 
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