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Thread #79832 Message #1449741
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
01-Apr-05 - 11:29 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Barbara Allan (Sarah Makem)
Subject: RE: Origins: Sarah Makem's 'Barbara Allan'?
It was in and about the *Martinmas time, When the green leaves were a falling, That Sir John Graham in the west countrie Fell in love with Barbara Allen. *September 11. Michaelmas is September 29.
Close to the verses quoted above; from Johnson, 1790 (taken from Bronson, Group B, 40, tune from Oswald, 1740).