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Get Up and Bar the Door - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Get Up and Bar the Door is a medieval Scots song about a battle of wills between a husband and wife. It is Child ballad 275. According to Child, it was first published by David Herd. The song begins ...
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Get Up and Bar the Door or JOAN AND JOHN BLOUNT There was an old couple lived under a hill Joan and John Blount they were called, oh They brewed great ale all for to sell They brewed it wonderful well, oh John Blount and his wife drank some of his ale Till they could drink no more, oh They both went to bed with a drop...
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Child 275, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (3 texts); Bronson 275, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (20 versions); GreigDuncan2 321, "The Barrin' o' the Door" (4 texts, 3 tunes) {A=Bronson's #16, B=#11, C=#12}; BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 318-321, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #17, #10};
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275B: Get Up and Bar the Door ... Says auld John Blunt to Janet the wife, Ye maun rise up and bar the door. ... 275C.6 ‘Ye’ve eaten my bread, ye hae druken my ale, And ye’ll mak my auld wife a whore!’ ‘A ha, Johnie Blunt! ye hae spoke the first word, Get up and bar the door.’...
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