Chords for Little Beggarman-Makem & Clancy 2/8

The ones that you know on you sitting at home, roar them out even if the wife says something to you, throw her out to you, you get singing some of these songs.
We have a song that I sang first when I was about five years old, my first appearance on the stage of the Market House in Cady.
Now there was ambition for you.
1902
My mother taught me this little song, been singing it ever since, we rested it for four or five years and we decided it was time that it came into its own again.
We're going to sing for you, The Little Beggar Man. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I [E] am a little beggar man, [G] a beggar I have been, [D] I've put three score or more in [Am] this little isle of green.
I'm known from the Liffey down to Sigou, I'm known by the name of old Johnny Dew.
Of all the trade to school, I'm [G] sure begging is the best, [D] ha ha, when a man is tired he [Am] can sit down and rest.
Beg for his dinner, he has nothing else to do, only cut around the corner [D] with his old rigadoo. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I slept in the barn, way down the corriban, one night I bought [C] and I slept through the dawn.
[D] The bulls and the wolves and the rain coming through, and the rats and the cats, they were playing peek-a-boo.
[Am] Oh, should I wake [G] up the woman of the house [D] with her white spotty apron [C] and her calico blouse.
[D] She began to [G] frighten and I said, oh, Arra, don't be afraid, I'm the Johnny Dew. _ _ _ _
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A little, little, flexy-haired girl one day, good morning, little, flexy-haired girl, I [E] say.
Good morning, little [G] beggar man, how do you [D] do with your axe and your bags and your old [A] rigadoo?
I'll buy you a pair of leggings and a collar and [D] a tie and a nice young [E] lady I'll catch by and by.
I'll buy you a pair [G] of goggles and colours of blue and [D] an old fashion lady I will make her too. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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And over the road, with my [G] pack and my bag, over the [C] fields with my great heavy [G] sack,
the dogs and my shoes and my toast peeping [D] through, say, Skiddy-bur-ick-a-doodle-oo, our old Johnny Dew.
[Am] I must be going to bed for it's getting late at [D] night, the fire's all [Am] raked and out the [G] light.
And I heard the [F#m] story of me old rigadoo, that's good-bye and I'll do it, yes, at [D] our old Johnny Dew.
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