There was a jolly beggar, and a begging he had been,
With his fal de diddle de dal dal
And he took up his quarters in a house in Aberdeen.
With his toran oran ad de odi
2
This beggar would not lye in barn nor yet would he in byre,
But he would lye into the ha, or beyond the kitchen-fire.
3
The beggar’s bed it was well made, with clean straw and hay,
And beyond the kitchen-fire, there the jolly beggar lay.