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Thread #105599   Message #2175704
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
21-Oct-07 - 12:35 AM
Thread Name: Origins: All Among the Barley (Elizabeth Stirling)
Subject: RE: Origins: All Among The Barley
The sheet music to "All Among the Barley," published in 1871 in the United States, differs from the text printed in the DT, in two small but important respects:

Verse 2, line 1:
The Spring, she is a young maid,
That does not know her mind;
(not- he is a young man that does not know his mind)
Young maid is much more apt.

Verse 3, line 11:
But the free and bearded Barley
Is the monarch of them all.
(not- ripe and bearded Barley)

"All Among the Barley," 1871, Words by A. T., Music by Elizabeth Stirling. Published by Lee & Walker, Philadelphia.
Library of Congress, American Memory.