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Joe Offer	Lyr Add: The Miller And The Maid (4)	RE: Lyr Add: The Miller And The Maid	11 Sep 25
Here's the Traditional Ballad Index listing: Miller and the Lass, The DESCRIPTION: A maid takes her corn to be ground. The miller says he can't grind right now "my stones is high and my water low." She stays with him until "the mill would grind." "She swore she'd been ground by a score or more But never been ground so well before" AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1906 (Reeves/Sharp-TheIdiomOfThePeople) KEYWORDS: sex miller FOUND IN: Britain(England(South,West)) REFERENCES (5 citations): Gardham-EarliestVersions, "MILLER AND THE LASS, THE" Reeves/Sharp-TheIdiomOfThePeople 63, "The Miller and the Lass" (1 text) Palmer-EnglishCountrySongbook, "The Miller's Song" (1 text, 1 tune) Palmer-SongsOfTheMidlands, p. 44, "The Miller's Song" (1 text, 1 tune) Purslow-TheConstantLovers, p. 60, "The Miller and the Lass" (1 text, 1 tune) Roud #1128 CROSS-REFERENCES: cf. "The Maid Gaed to the Mill" (theme: sex and a miller; grinding corn as the metaphor) and references there `File: ReSh063` Go to the Ballad Search form Go to the Ballad Index Song List Go to the Ballad Index Instructions Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography The Ballad Index Copyright 2025 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle.

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