The Auld Beggarman chords by June Tabor

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G+G C majorC  D MajorD G+G  C majorC D MajorD G+G

Verse:
            C majorC
Oh, as I was a-linking o'er the lea
           D MajorD
The finest weel that ever I did see
G+G
Looking for his charity
      C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
"Would you lodge a lame poor man?"

Verse:
              C majorC
For the night being wet and it being cold
           D MajorD
She took pity on the poor old soul
G+G
She took pity on the poor old soul
    C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
And she bade him to sit down

Chorus:
               C majorC
With a tooran nooran nan tan nee
         D MajorD
Right ton nooran fol a doo-a-dee
G+G
Tooran nooran nooran nee
   C majorC   D MajorD   G+G
And a tooran nooran-i-do

Verse:
            C majorC
He sat him down in the chimbley nook
             D MajorD
The bonnie young daughter gave him a look
   G+G
He's thrown his bags behind a crook
  C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
And merrily he did sing

Verse:
           C majorC
Oh, he grew canty and she was fain
          D MajorD
But little did the old mother ken
G+G
Just what the two of them were saying
C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
As they sat sae thrag

Chorus:
               C majorC
With a tooran nooran nan tan nee
D MajorD        G+G
Fol a doo-a-dee
C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
As they sat sae thrag

Verse:
             C majorC
“Oh, if I was as black as I am white
           D MajorD
Just like the snow on yon fell-dyke
  G+G
I'd dress myself so beggar-like
   C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
And away with you I'd gang”

Verse:
              C majorC
“Oh, lassie, lassie, you're far too young
                  D MajorD
And you haven't got the lilt of the begging tongue
  G+G
You haven't got the lilt of the begging tongue
  C majorC      D MajorD   G+G
So with me you cannot gang”

Chorus:
               C majorC
With a tooran nooran nan tan nee
D MajorD
Fol a doo-a-dee
G+G
Tooran nooran nooran nee
C majorC      D MajorD   G+G
With me you cannot gang”

Verse:
               C majorC
“I'll burden my back and I'll bend my knee
         D MajorD
Put a black patch on my e'e
G+G
And for a beggar they'll take me
   C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
And away with you I'll gang”

Chorus:
               C majorC  D MajorD
With a tooran nooran nan tan nee
    G+G
With a tooran nooran nooran nee
   C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
And away with you I'll gang”

Instrumental:
G+G C majorC  D MajorD G+G  C majorC D MajorD G+G

Verse:
              C majorC
For all that the doors were locked quite tight
             D MajorD
The old woman rose in the middle of the night
  G+G
The old woman rose in the middle of the night
    C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
But to find the old man gone

Verse:
                  C majorC
Oh, she's run to the cupboard, likewise to the chest
           D MajorD
All things there and nothing missed
G+G
Clapping her hands, "And the dear be blessed
    C majorC   D MajorD     G+G
Wasn't he an honest old man?"

Chorus:
               C majorC
With a tooran nooran nan tan nee
D MajorD        G+G
Fol a doo-a-dee
    C majorC   D MajorD     G+G
Wasn't he an honest old man?"

Verse:
                  C majorC
Oh, the breakfast was ready and the table laid
             D MajorD
The old woman went for to waken the maid
  G+G
The bed was there but the maid was gone
 C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
Away with the lame poor man

Chorus:
              C majorC
And a tooran nooran nan tan nee
D MajorD
Fol a doo-a-dee
G+G
Tooran nooran nooran nee
 C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
Away with the lame poor man

Instrumental:
G+G C majorC  D MajorD G+G  C majorC D MajorD G+G

Verse:
           C majorC
Now seven years were passed and gone
           D MajorD
This old beggar come back again
G+G
Looking for his charity
      C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
“Would you lodge a lame poor man?”

Verse:
            C majorC
“Oh, I never lodged any but the one
          D MajorD
And with him my one daughter did gang
   G+G
And I choose you to be the very one
     C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
And I'll have you to be gone”

Chorus:
               C majorC  D MajorD
With a tooran nooran nan tan nee
G+G
Tooran nooran nooran nee
   C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
I'll have you to be gone

Verse:
           C majorC
“If your one daughter you want to see
           D MajorD
She has two bairnies on her knee
  G+G
She has two bairnies on her knee
   C majorC     D MajorD   G+G
And a third one coming round

Verse:
         C majorC
“Yonder she sits, yonder she stands
          D MajorD
The fairest lady in all Scotland
G+G
She has servants at her command
     C majorC       D MajorD     G+G
Since she went with the lame poor man”

Chorus:
              C majorC
And a tooran nooran nan tan nee
D MajorD        G+G
Fol a doo-a-dee
G+G
Nan tan nee
     C majorC       D MajorD     G+G
Since she went with the lame poor man”

Chorus:
              C majorC
And a tooran nooran nan tan nee
         D MajorD
Right ton nooran fol a doo-a-dee
G+G
Tooran nooran nooran nee
C majorC   D MajorD   G+G
Tooran nooran-i-do