With every order from our merchandise shop (physical items only) we will send you a Rapalje rose.
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The Great Rapalje Songbook
The official vintage Rapalje songbook, made in the early 2000s mostly by Dieb, we will be adding a digital version to our shop on sunday during our Valentine’s Day livestream. This songbook contains nearly all our songs with text and musical notes, with original pictures in black and white from the early 2000s. The book is over 90 pages and contains a wealth of never seen before original Rapalje texts and songs.
We hope you enjoy this piece of Rapalje history, starting sunday available in our merchandise shop
And watch our livestream 14 februari at 16:00
With love from David, Maceál, William & Dieb
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Thank you
Thank you for all the song requests for Valentine’s Day, they are all sold out now. In our mailing we let you know about this first, would you also like to recieve our mailing, sign up on our website or join our clan on Facebook.
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All you need is love – A special Valentine’s Stream
Join us on Valentine’s Day for a special stream, we are going to play some wonderfull songs and might have a little surprise for you!
Is there any song you want to hear? Maybe we can play it for someone special =)
You can order a special song just for you from our webshop, we will play it during the stream and read your special message https://rapalje.com/nl/shop/valentine-song-request/ Only 5 song requests are available in the shop, you can pay what you want.
See you on February 14th at 16:00
To watch our streams tickets are not needed, but we really appreciate your support, virtual tickets are available.
Step it out Mary – Practice session
Last friday we were practicing this wonderful song for our up and coming Theatre Show, David is still working on his Tin Whistle lines so they will perhaps change a little still. Do you want to see more practice video’s?
Step it out Mary – Practice session
Last friday we were practicing this wonderful song for our up and coming Theatre Show, David is still working on his Tin Whistle lines so they will perhaps change a little still. Do you want to see more practice video’s?
The Jolly Beggar
Did you see our post about The Jolly Beggar? We played our version live during our stream at William’s Place, see the post here https://rapalje.com/the-jolly-beggar-at-williams-place/
David, Maceál, William & Dieb
The Jolly Beggar – At William’s Place
The Jolly Beggar – At William’s Place
The Jolly Beggar is the very first song on our very first CD, Celts in Kilts, later merged into our Rakkish Paddies CD. Even William was not there yet for the very first recording of the Jolly Beggar. For this video at William’s Place luckily both David and William are there and we sound much better and with more harmony.
On the original cover of Celts in Kilts William was photoshopped into the picture, with his head replacing a chicken =) You can see the story in the picture below.
Background Info
The Jolly Beggar, also known as The Gaberlunzieman, is Child ballad 279. The song’s chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron’s poem “So, we’ll go no more a roving”. The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child’s studies of them were published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. The tunes of most of the ballads were collected and published by Bertrand Harris Bronson in and around the 1960s.
The Jolly Beggar Lyrics
It’s of a jolly beggarman came tripping o’er the plain
He came unto a farmer’s door a lodging for to gain
The farmer’s daughter she came down and viewed him cheek and chin
She says, He is a handsome man. I pray you take him in
He came unto a farmer’s door a lodging for to gain
The farmer’s daughter she came down and viewed him cheek and chin
She says, He is a handsome man. I pray you take him in
chorus
We’ll go no more a roving, a roving in the night
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
He would not lie within the barn nor yet within the byre
But he would in the corner lie down by the kitchen fire
O then the beggar’s bed was made of good clean sheets and hay
And down beside the kitchen fire the jolly beggar lay
But he would in the corner lie down by the kitchen fire
O then the beggar’s bed was made of good clean sheets and hay
And down beside the kitchen fire the jolly beggar lay
chorus
We’ll go no more a roving, a roving in the night
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
The farmer’s daughter she got up to bolt the kitchen door
And there she saw the beggar standing naked on the floor
He took the daughter in his arms and to the bed he ran
Kind sir, she says, be easy now, you’ll waken our goodman
And there she saw the beggar standing naked on the floor
He took the daughter in his arms and to the bed he ran
Kind sir, she says, be easy now, you’ll waken our goodman
chorus
We’ll go no more a roving, a roving in the night
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
Now you are no beggar, you are some gentleman
For you have stolen my maidenhead and I am quite undone
I am no lord, I am no squire, of beggars I be one
And beggars they be robbers all, so you re quite undone
For you have stolen my maidenhead and I am quite undone
I am no lord, I am no squire, of beggars I be one
And beggars they be robbers all, so you re quite undone
chorus
We’ll go no more a roving, a roving in the night
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
She tok the bed in both her hands and threw it at the wall
Says go you with beggar man my maidenhead and all
Says go you with beggar man my maidenhead and all
chorus
We’ll go no more a roving, a roving in the night
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
We’ll go no more a roving, let the moon shine so bright
We’ll go no more a roving
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