THE BEGGER hi-lo
English folk song
Key: D
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I’d just as soon be a beg-ger as a king
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And the rea-son I’ll tell you for why
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A king can-not swag-ger
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Nor drink like a beg-ger
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Nor be half so hap-py as I
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Let the back and the sides
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go bare, my boys
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Let the hands and the feet gang cold
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But give to the bel-ly,
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boys, beer e-nough
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Wheth-er it be new or old
