“Get Up and Bar the Door”
Description
Old man and old wife must bar the door; neither wants to. They agree that whoever speaks first shall bar the door. Thieves enter the house, and play tricks on the couple. At last the old (man) cries out; the (wife) orders him orders him to bar the door
References
- Child 275, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (3 texts)
- Bronson 275, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (20 versions)
- BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 318-321, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #17, #10}
- Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 72-75, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Ford-Vagabond, pp. 148-150, "The Barrin' o' the Door" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Randolph 34, "Get Up and Shut the Door" (2 fragments, 1 tune) {Bronson's #20}
- Gardner/Chickering 153, "Arise and Bar the Door" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
- BrownII 43, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (2 texts)
- Davis-Ballads 44, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 fragment, possibly this song)
- Creighton/Senior, pp. 92-93, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #4}
- Greenleaf/Mansfield 18, "Joan and John Blount" (1 text)
- Peacock, pp. 239-240, "Bar the Door O" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Leach, pp. 657-658, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text)
- OBB 172, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text)
- Niles 58, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Combs/Wilgus 38, pp. 128-129, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text)
- JHCox 185, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text)
- Hodgart, p. 77, "Get up and Bar the Door" (1 text)
- DBuchan 62, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text)
- TBB 40, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text)
- HarvClass-EP1, pp. 87-88, "Get Up and Bar the Door" (1 text)
- DT 275, BARDOOR* BARDOOR2 JHNBLNT BARDOOR4*
- Roud #115
- BI, C275