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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,Bob the Shantyman	Lyr Req: All Among the Barley (36)	RE: Lyr Req: All Among the Barley	01 Sep 21
Line 2 of verse 1 seems odd. If there is stubble in the field then the wheat has been cut. Rather than: "Through the wheat and stubble we hear the frequent gun . . ." I sing; "Through the wheaten stubble we hear the frequent gun . . ." It just makes more sense of the verse. I first heard the song sung at The Meadow Folk Club in Ironbridge in 1971 - just over fifty years ago, and it has never gone stale. Mind you, given the first line, it only comes out for four weeks of the year. I thought that it was traditional but sadly it is not.

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