“Oats and Beans”

Description

Playparty ."Oats, (peas/and), beans, and barley grow... Do you or I or anyone know... How oats and beans and barley grow." The farmer plants the seed and waits for harvest; young couples marry and must obey each other.

Notes

Gomme has a table (Volume II, p. 11) showing the distribution of the various crops: Oats, beans, barley, wheat, groats, hops. The second Digital Tradition version comes close to the status of parody. - RBW

References

1. Linscott, pp. 46-47, "On the Green Carpet" (1 text, 1 tune, which seems to mix "Green Carpet" and "Oats and Beans)
2. Montgomerie-ScottishNR 84, "(Oats and beans and barley grows)" (1 text)
3. DT, OATSBEAN (OATSPEAS*)
4. Roud #1380
5. BI, DToatsbe