Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow
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Oats, peas, beans and barley grow,
Oats, peas, beans and barley grow.
Can you or I or anyone know
How oats, peas, beans and barley grow?
First the farmer plants the seed,
Then he stands and takes his ease,
He stamps his foot and claps his hands
And turns around to view the lands.
Do you want a partner?
Do you want a partner?
For if you do, you must be true
And choose him very shortly.
Waiting for a partner,
Waiting for a partner,
Open the ring and choose one in
While we do gaily dance and sing.
Now you're married, you must obey,
You must be true to all you say,
You must be kind, you must be good,
And help your wife to chop the wood.
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"Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow", also known as "Baltimore" is a traditional<br> British-Canadian-American folk song (jig) in G Major. There is one part.<br> It is #1380 in the Roud Folk Song Index.<br> According to Alice Bertha Gomme's book The Traditional Games of England,<br> Scotland and Ireland (1894), this is a "play song", in which children perform<br> actions with the song, standing in a ring.<br> Most children, at least in my generation, knew this song and the motions or dance<br> steps to go with it. Additional verses are sometimes added to have the farmer water<br> the seeds, hoe the weeds, harvest the crops, etc.<br> It was collected in America by Samuel Bayard from James McKivison in Pine Grove<br> Mills, Centre County, PA in a 6/8 jig setting as<br> "Hickity Crackity".<br> It was recorded by<br> Tim Hart and Maddy Prior on Folk Songs of Olde England Vol 2 (1968),<br> Roberts and Barrand on Mellow With Ale From the Horn (1975) (as "Oats and Beans<br> and Barley Grows"),<br> Friends of Fiddler's Green on This Side of the Ocean (as "Oats and Beans") (1981<br> and 1997),<br> The Revels on The Wild Mountain Thyme (1994) and<br> Broadside Band on Old English Nursery Rhymes (1996).<br> It was printed in<br> Joshua Cushing's The Fifer's Companion (1790),<br> Broadwood and Maitland's English County Songs (1893),<br> Northall's English Folk-Rhymes: A collection of traditional verses relating<br> to places and persons, customs, superstitions, etc. (1892) and<br> Shatwell & Sartin's Hampshire Dance Tunes (2007).<br>
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