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Thread #3602   Message #18391
Posted By: Joe Offer
29-Dec-97 - 02:43 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Barring of the Door
Subject: Lyrics Correction: Barring of the Door
In another thread, somebody talked about "Our Goodman," also known as "Five Nights Drunk." When I searched under "Goodman," I came up with this song, Barring of the Door. I had heard the story before, but didn't know it was a song, and a Child Ballad at that. It's about the man who ordered his wife to get up and bar the door, and both refused to do it and agreed that the first one to speak would have to do it.
The MIDI tune we have in the online database doesn't work with the lyrics given. However, when you play the SongWright tune on the PC version of the database, the lyrics to a chorus come up on the screen:
An' the barrin' o' oor door, weel, weel, weel.
An' the barrin' o' oor door, weel.

Is there anybody familiar with this song who can check the tune for me? It seems to ALMOST work, but not quite. Anybody got updated lyrics or a better chorus?
-Joe Offer-