Hello! I've just been listening to what I suppose is a variation of the traditional song 'The Gaberlunzie Man', called 'A Beggar A Beggar', but I can't find the lyrics used in this version anywhere. Possibly they were an addition of the musician's own creation, but if not I'd love to know where they came from! I can't locate any song with the title 'A Beggar A Beggar' either. Maybe I'm just being ignorant. If you'd like to hear the version to which I'm referring it is sung really sweetly by Lisa Knapp and it is on her MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/lisaknappmusic. The melody and words are so pretty, I'd love to find their source or any other information about the song as I can't quite make out every word from the recording.

I believe it starts:

A beggar, a beggar come over the lea
He was asking lodgings for charity
He was asking lodgings for charity
Could you love a begging man o?
A beggar, a beggar, I could never love again
For I had one daughter and Jeanie was her name
For I had one daughter and Jeanie was her name
She's ran away with a begging man, o.

Any help on this version of the song would be most appreciated. :D