Chords for Mad Dog Mcrea - The Jolly Beggarman

I am a little beggar man, a beggar nay, I've been off for three score or more in this little isle of green,
and I'm known from the Tamer and down to Sigaloo, and I'm known by the name of old Johnny Dew.
Of all the trade, sure begging is the best you'll win, and while it's hard he can sit down and rest.
Beg for his dinner, he has nothing else to [Am] do, and a cutter on the corner with his old rigged ewe.
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[G] I slept in the [Am] barn, with down the car [G] upon, the wet night come on, and I [F] slept until the [G] dawn,
and the holes in the [Am] roof from the rain coming [G] through, the rats and the cats, they were playing piggaboo.
[F] But who should have waken but the woman of the [G] house, with her little miniskirt and her [F] button-down [G] blouse?
She began to frighten, and I said, boo, don't be afraid, my miss only [F] Johnny Dew.
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I met a little foxy girl one day, good morning little foxy girl, [Dm] I did [G] say,
good morning little beggar man, how do you do?
What's your act in your bags and your old rigged [F] ewe?
I'll buy you a pair of leggings and a collar and a [G] tie, and a nice young lady outfit [F] to play and [G] buy.
I'll buy you a pair of goggles in [Am] colour than blue, and a fine young [G] lady I will make her [F] say.
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the [F#m] hill to the pack, and me back, and over the fields with my dread heavy sack,
with holes in me shoes and toes creeping through, singing little black flyin' old Johnny [F] Dew.
I must be gone about first getting lit at [G] night, and the fires all raked and [F] out, squirt the [G] light.
So now you heard the story of me [Am] old rigged ewe, skid light and got [G] me with you, said [F] old Johnny Dew.
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I am a jolly beggar man, a beggar I have been, and what's me story [F] more, I'm this little isle of [G] green,
heathen loam, and the chamber I'm [Am] down, the sickle there, and the gnome by the [G] name of old Johnny [F] Dew.
I must be gone about first getting lit at [G] night, and the fires all [F] raked and out, squirt the [G] light.
So now you heard the story of me [C] old rigged ewe, skid light and got me [G] with you, said old Johnny Dew. _ _ _ _ _ _ _