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Thread #58375 Message #923837
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
01-Apr-03 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Maid that Sold Her Barley (Déanta)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Maid That Sold Her Barley-Deanta
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Beside the set from Colm O Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads mentioned above, see this earlier discussion: Need Lyrics for "The Maid Who Sold her Barley
There are several broadside examples at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads:
The maid that sold her barley
The original song by Thomas D'Urfey (1688) is in the DT: COLD AND RAW (The Farmers Daughter)
Broadsides:
The Northern ditty; or the Scotchman outwitted by a country damsel