Annotation:There was a bold beggarman
X:1 T:There Was a Bold Beggarman M:C L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Lively" S:Joyce – Ancient Irish Music (1890) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A | Addd d2 cd | efgg f2 de | (fd) (c/A/)G A2 cd | e2d2d2 (d=c) | B2 BG A2 de | fd=cA G2 FG | AABB AFDF | E2 D2 D3 ||
THERE WAS A BOLD BEGGARMAN. Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Joyce (1890) knew this tune and words “longer than my memory can reach back.”
There was a bold beggarman as ever you did see,
With a hi, with a ho fol-de dandy-o;
He asked for a lodging near the house of Tandragee,
With his toorn-oorn-orn-an-dy-o.
