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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