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Item Summary

Formatsong text
TitleMowing Barley
ContributorSam Bennet
Index NameBennett, Sam
Reference Code AFC 1972/001, MS p. 00610

Scope and Content Notes

Genre song
First lineA lawyer he went out one day all for to take his pleasure

6 stanzas

Contextual Notes

First played morris dances for old dancers in 1887.
'An action song before [Cecil] Sharp publicised [it], known 40 years ago'.
'Sharp came out 1907'.


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