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Thread #3873 Message #2611366
Posted By: RowanGolightly
14-Apr-09 - 09:09 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Nipperkin and a brown bowl (Barley Mow)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nipperkin and a brown bowl (Barley Mow)
I'm reviving this song, "Good Luck to the Barley Mow" at a Renaissance festival that we're building near Springfield, MO. I learned it years and years ago at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival.
We always taught that the "brown bowl" is that oldest of drinking vesselse; one's own two cupped hands.