Little Beggarman Chords by Fiddlers Green
Tempo:
113.8 bpm
Chords used:
D
Em
C
E
F#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I am a little beggar man and begging I have been [D] for three score years [C] and slid a lot
of green.
[D] I'm no longer living from the bend of the
zoo and I'm known by the name [Am] of poor Jolly Jude.
My brother called me Jolly Beggar trips over the plain.
He comes to the farmer's store, the lodger calls him pain.
He says the farmer's store refuses him chick and chin.
She calls him a [D] handsome man and takes him.
[C] Oh, poor Jolly, go and show the begging is the [D] best for a winner man.
He goes to the [C] side and sits down and [D] rests.
He begs for a sliver, he has [C] nothing else
to do but to spend a ron and a gonner with [D] his old digger dude.
I slept last night in a barn, it tore apart, it was a rugged wet night, but [C] I slept until
the dawn.
[D] I was on the roof when the rain coming through
[A] and the rats and the cats [D] were all playing peek-a-boo.
Oh, [C] when I was awakened by the woman of the house [D] with a white body different [C] and a binding
[D] applause, she began to frighten all I said [C] was,
Oh, don't be [D] afraid, for this will be Jolly Jude.
[Em]
I met a little flaxen-haired girl one [E] day.
Good morning, little flaxen [D]-haired girl, I
did say.
[E] Good morning, little beggar man, and how
do you do with the rats and the cats [Em] and your old digger dude?
I [D] will buy a pair of leggings and a collar and a tie [Em] and a nice young lady I will court
and bind [Em] by.
I'll buy a pair of goggles and I'll color
them blue and an old [D]-fashioned lady I will [Em] make her too.
So all along the highway, with my [D] back upon my back and over the place where my habit
would [E] attack, holes in my shoes and the toes creaking through,
see me sing my little tutu with my [Em] old digger dude.
[D] Oh, I must be going to bed now for it's getting late at night and the fire's all raking and
there isn't any [Em] light.
Now you've heard the story of my old digger
dude, so [D] goodnight, God be with you from old [Em] Jolly Jude.
[D] [Em]
[D] [Em] [D]
[Em]
[F#] [B]
[F#]
[A#]
[N]
of green.
[D] I'm no longer living from the bend of the
zoo and I'm known by the name [Am] of poor Jolly Jude.
My brother called me Jolly Beggar trips over the plain.
He comes to the farmer's store, the lodger calls him pain.
He says the farmer's store refuses him chick and chin.
She calls him a [D] handsome man and takes him.
[C] Oh, poor Jolly, go and show the begging is the [D] best for a winner man.
He goes to the [C] side and sits down and [D] rests.
He begs for a sliver, he has [C] nothing else
to do but to spend a ron and a gonner with [D] his old digger dude.
I slept last night in a barn, it tore apart, it was a rugged wet night, but [C] I slept until
the dawn.
[D] I was on the roof when the rain coming through
[A] and the rats and the cats [D] were all playing peek-a-boo.
Oh, [C] when I was awakened by the woman of the house [D] with a white body different [C] and a binding
[D] applause, she began to frighten all I said [C] was,
Oh, don't be [D] afraid, for this will be Jolly Jude.
[Em]
I met a little flaxen-haired girl one [E] day.
Good morning, little flaxen [D]-haired girl, I
did say.
[E] Good morning, little beggar man, and how
do you do with the rats and the cats [Em] and your old digger dude?
I [D] will buy a pair of leggings and a collar and a tie [Em] and a nice young lady I will court
and bind [Em] by.
I'll buy a pair of goggles and I'll color
them blue and an old [D]-fashioned lady I will [Em] make her too.
So all along the highway, with my [D] back upon my back and over the place where my habit
would [E] attack, holes in my shoes and the toes creaking through,
see me sing my little tutu with my [Em] old digger dude.
[D] Oh, I must be going to bed now for it's getting late at night and the fire's all raking and
there isn't any [Em] light.
Now you've heard the story of my old digger
dude, so [D] goodnight, God be with you from old [Em] Jolly Jude.
[D] [Em]
[D] [Em] [D]
[Em]
[F#] [B]
[F#]
[A#]
[N]
Key:
D
Em
C
E
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D
Em
C
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I am a little beggar man and begging I have been [D] for three score years [C] and slid a lot
of green.
[D] I'm no longer living from the bend of the
zoo and I'm known by the name [Am] of poor Jolly Jude.
_ _ My brother called me Jolly Beggar trips over the plain.
He comes to the farmer's store, the lodger calls him pain.
He says the farmer's store refuses him chick and chin.
She calls him a [D] handsome man and takes him. _ _
[C] Oh, poor Jolly, go and show the begging is the [D] best for a winner man.
He goes to the [C] side and sits down and [D] rests.
He begs for a sliver, he has [C] nothing else
to do but to spend a ron and a gonner with [D] his old digger dude.
_ _ _ _ _ I slept last night in a barn, it tore apart, it was a rugged wet night, but [C] I slept until
the dawn.
[D] I was on the roof when the rain coming through
[A] and the rats and the cats [D] were all playing peek-a-boo.
_ Oh, [C] when I was awakened by the woman of the house [D] with a white body different [C] and a binding
[D] applause, she began to frighten all I said [C] was,
Oh, don't be [D] afraid, for this will be Jolly Jude.
_ _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ _ _ I met a little flaxen-haired girl one [E] day.
Good morning, little flaxen [D]-haired girl, I
did say.
[E] Good morning, little beggar man, and how
do you do with the rats and the cats [Em] and your old digger dude? _
I [D] will buy a pair of leggings and a collar and a tie [Em] and a nice young lady I will court
and bind [Em] by.
I'll buy a pair of goggles and I'll color
them blue and an old [D]-fashioned lady I will [Em] make her too. _ _ _ _ _
So all along the highway, with my [D] back upon my back and over the place where my habit
would [E] attack, holes in my shoes and the toes creaking through,
see me sing my little tutu with my [Em] old digger dude.
_ [D] Oh, I must be going to bed now for it's getting late at night and the fire's all raking and
there isn't any [Em] light.
Now you've heard the story of my old digger
dude, so [D] goodnight, God be with you from old [Em] Jolly Jude. _ _ _ _
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I am a little beggar man and begging I have been [D] for three score years [C] and slid a lot
of green.
[D] I'm no longer living from the bend of the
zoo and I'm known by the name [Am] of poor Jolly Jude.
_ _ My brother called me Jolly Beggar trips over the plain.
He comes to the farmer's store, the lodger calls him pain.
He says the farmer's store refuses him chick and chin.
She calls him a [D] handsome man and takes him. _ _
[C] Oh, poor Jolly, go and show the begging is the [D] best for a winner man.
He goes to the [C] side and sits down and [D] rests.
He begs for a sliver, he has [C] nothing else
to do but to spend a ron and a gonner with [D] his old digger dude.
_ _ _ _ _ I slept last night in a barn, it tore apart, it was a rugged wet night, but [C] I slept until
the dawn.
[D] I was on the roof when the rain coming through
[A] and the rats and the cats [D] were all playing peek-a-boo.
_ Oh, [C] when I was awakened by the woman of the house [D] with a white body different [C] and a binding
[D] applause, she began to frighten all I said [C] was,
Oh, don't be [D] afraid, for this will be Jolly Jude.
_ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I met a little flaxen-haired girl one [E] day.
Good morning, little flaxen [D]-haired girl, I
did say.
[E] Good morning, little beggar man, and how
do you do with the rats and the cats [Em] and your old digger dude? _
I [D] will buy a pair of leggings and a collar and a tie [Em] and a nice young lady I will court
and bind [Em] by.
I'll buy a pair of goggles and I'll color
them blue and an old [D]-fashioned lady I will [Em] make her too. _ _ _ _ _
So all along the highway, with my [D] back upon my back and over the place where my habit
would [E] attack, holes in my shoes and the toes creaking through,
see me sing my little tutu with my [Em] old digger dude.
_ [D] Oh, I must be going to bed now for it's getting late at night and the fire's all raking and
there isn't any [Em] light.
Now you've heard the story of my old digger
dude, so [D] goodnight, God be with you from old [Em] Jolly Jude. _ _ _ _
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