THE BEGGER chrom

English folk song

Key: D

-56 -6*  -5  -7  -5 -5 6  6   -5 -5 -5

I’d just as soon be a beg-ger as a king

-7  -7  -8  -8   -8   -9  -7  -7  -9

And the rea-son I’ll tell you for why

-7 -8  -8  -8   -8  -8

A king can-not swag-ger

-9   -7    -7  7 -6* -6*

Nor drink like a beg-ger

-5  6   -6*-55* -4 -4 6 -5

Nor be half so hap-py as I

-5   6  -6*  -5  -5   -7

Let the back and the sides

-5  6    -5  -5

go bare, my boys

-7  -7   -8   -8  -8   -9   -7   -9

Let the hands and the feet gang cold

-7   -8  -8 -8  -8  -8

But give to the bel-ly,

 -9    -7  7  -6*

boys, beer e-nough

 -5   6 -6*-55* -4 6  -5

Wheth-er it be new or old