The Roud index has several songs with Beggarman in the title, but two numbers cover the songs above (all but one of the others are anomalous titles for other songs).


Roud 118 (134 entries) is the version from Child 279 (The As I went linking o'er the lee or It's of a ragged beggarman came tripping o'er the plain type).

Roud 900 (7 entries) is the Oul' Rigadoo/Johnny Dhu version (I am a little beggarman).

(There is also Roud 3080 - The Beggarman of County Down (It was in Ballinderry the beggarman first gathered his men)).

The Old Settoo has 4 entries in the Roud broadside index (2 in the Madden Collection #25 #s 389 and 548, one in Carnell-Ballads in the Charles Hardy Firth Collection F31, and one in Healy - Old Irish Street Ballads).

Mick