Dennis, Here is the full song... I am a little beggarman, a beggar I've been For three score years on this little isle of green I'm known from the Liffey way down to (don't know how to spell it, sounds like sagu) And the name that I'm known by is old Johnny Dhu (B part) Of all of al trades a-goin' I'm sure beggin is the best For when a man is tired he can sit him down to rest You beg for your dinner and you've nothin' better to do But to toddle around the corner with your old rigadoo I slept one night in a barn in Coorabagh T'was a wet night comin' on, so I slept 'til the dawn With holes in the roof and the rain comin' through And the cats and the rats were playin peek-a-boo. {B} When who should awaken but the woman of the house In a white spotted apron and a calico blouse She began to frighten when I said "Boo!" "Ah, don't be afraid m'am, it's only Johnny Dhu." I met a little flaxy-haired girl one day "Good mornin', little flaxy-haired girl." I did say "Good mornin' little beggarman, and how do you do With your rags and your tags and your old rigadoo?" {B} I'll buy you a pair leggings and a collar and a tie And a nice young lady I'll fetch you by-and-by I'll buy her a pair of gogles and color them blue And an old fashion lady I will make her too. So it's over the roads with me pack on me back And it's over the hills with me great haversack With holes in me shoes and me toes peeking Singing skitamarink-a-doodle with me old rigadoo (by the way, "skinamarack-a-doodle-idle-eedle-idle-doo" isn't Irish, it's scatt (or a folk/traditional version it)) {B} I must be going to bed now, it's getting late at night And the fire's all stoked [sp?] so it's out goes the light And now you've heard the story of me old rigadoo So it's good-night and God be with ya', says old Johnny Dhu.
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