a. Herd, The Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, 1769, p. 46. b. Curious Tracts, Scotland, British Museum, 1078, m. 24, No 30.
1
There was a jolly beggar, and a begging he was bound,
And he took up his quarters into a landart town.
Fa la la, etc.
2
He wad neither ly in barn, nor yet wad he in byre,
But in ahint the ha-door, or else afore the fire.
3
The beggar’s bed was made at een wi good clean straw and hay,