It's of a jolly beggarman came tripping o'er the plain He came unto a farmer's door a lodging for to gain The farmer's daughter, she came down and viewed him cheek and chin She said, "He is a handsome man, I pray you take him in" We'll go no more a-roving A-roving in the night We'll go no more a-roving Let the moon shine out so bright We'll go no more a-roving He would no lie within the barn nor yet within the byre But he would in the corner lie down by the kitchen fire Oh then the beggar's bed was made of good clean sheets and hay And down beside the kitchen fire the jolly beggar lay We'll go no more a-roving A-roving in the night We'll go no more a-roving Let the moon shine out so bright We'll go no more a-roving The farmer's daughter, she got up to bolt the kitchen door And there she saw the beggar standing naked on the floor He took the daughter in his hands and to the bed he ran "Kind sir," she says, "Be easy now, you'll waken our good man" We'll go no more a-roving A-roving in the night We'll go no more a-roving Let the moon shine out so bright We'll go no more a-roving "Now you are no beggar, you are some gentleman For you did steal my maidenhead, and I am quite undone" "I am no lord, I am no squire, of beggars I be one And beggars, they be robbers all, so you are quite undone" We'll go no more a-roving A-roving in the night We'll go no more a-roving Let the moon shine out so bright We'll go no more a-roving We'll go no more a-roving A-roving in the night We'll go no more a-roving Let the moon shine out so bright We'll go no more a-roving