"Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow", also known as "Baltimore" is a traditional British-Canadian-American folk song (jig) in G Major. There is one part. It is #1380 in the Roud Folk Song Index. According to Alice Bertha Gomme's book The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland (1894), this is a "play song", in which children perform actions with the song, standing in a ring. Most children, at least in my generation, knew this song and the motions or dance steps to go with it. Additional verses are sometimes added to have the farmer water the seeds, hoe the weeds, harvest the crops, etc. It was collected in America by Samuel Bayard from James McKivison in Pine Grove Mills, Centre County, PA in a 6/8 jig setting as "Hickity Crackity". It was recorded by Tim Hart and Maddy Prior on Folk Songs of Olde England Vol 2 (1968), Roberts and Barrand on Mellow With Ale From the Horn (1975) (as "Oats and Beans and Barley Grows"), Friends of Fiddler's Green on This Side of the Ocean (as "Oats and Beans") (1981 and 1997), The Revels on The Wild Mountain Thyme (1994) and Broadside Band on Old English Nursery Rhymes (1996). It was printed in Joshua Cushing's The Fifer's Companion (1790), Broadwood and Maitland's English County Songs (1893), Northall's English Folk-Rhymes: A collection of traditional verses relating to places and persons, customs, superstitions, etc. (1892) and Shatwell & Sartin's Hampshire Dance Tunes (2007).