Well, that didn't work. (I'm trying to make the editor behave.) My inquiry is about a production in Cambridge, Mass, in 1950-51 of a musical play called "Dark of the Moon". It was built around a version of Barbara Allen that I suspect they wrote themselves.

A piece of it (this is from memory & may be garbled) goes like this:

The witch-boy to the mountain came, A-pinin' to be human, For he had seen the fairest one, The dark-eyed Barb'ry Allen.

Oh conjure-man, oh conjure-man Please do this thing, I'm wantin'. Make me into a human man, For Barb'ry I'd be courtin'.

Has anybody seen or heard anything like that _outside_ that play?