Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

Get Up and Bar the Door

A. a.  Johnson's Museum has these variations:
24. Gat up and.
43. first who should speak the foremost word.
b.  13. That our gudewife had.
14. she boild.
21. wind blew cauld frae east.
24. Get up and.
33. hunder.
34. Its neer be barrd by.
42. word whaever spak.
51. come.
53. Whan they can see na ither house.
54. And at the door they light.
72. And syne.
73. Tho wanting.
81. Then ane unto the ither said.
98. bree.
111. O up then started.
113. you have spak the first word.
O is added to the second and fourth lines for singing, in both of the Museum copies and in B

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