Get Up And Bar The Door Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C DEFG HCI JBK LMNC OPQP R NC STQF UIV R U WBW IUX| The Text is from Herd's Ancient and Modern Scots Songs which is almost identical with a copy in Johnson's Museum Another variant also given in the Museum was contributed by Burns who made it shorter and more dramatic | A |
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| The Story of this farcical ballad has long been popular in many lands European and Oriental and has been introduced as an episode in English French and German plays A close parallel to the ballad may be found in Straparola Day VIII first story | B |
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| GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR | C |
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| It fell about the Martinmas time | D |
| And a gay time it was then | E |
| When our goodwife got puddings to make | F |
| And she's boil'd them in the pan | G |
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| The wind sae cauld blew south and north | H |
| And blew into the floor | C |
| Quoth our goodman to our goodwife | I |
| 'Gae out and bar the door ' | - |
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| 'My hand is in my hussyfskep | J |
| Goodman as ye may see | B |
| An it shoud nae be barr'd this hundred year | K |
| It's no be barr'd for me ' | - |
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| They made a paction 'tween them twa | L |
| They made it firm and sure | M |
| That the first word whae'er shoud speak | N |
| Shoud rise and bar the door | C |
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| Then by there came two gentlemen | O |
| At twelve o'clock at night | P |
| And they could neither see house nor hall | Q |
| Nor coal nor candle light | P |
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| 'Now whether is this a rich man's house | R |
| Or whether is it a poor ' | - |
| But ne'er a word wad ane o' them speak | N |
| For barring of the door | C |
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| And first they ate the white puddings | S |
| And then they ate the black | T |
| Tho' muckle thought the goodwife to hersel' | Q |
| Yet ne'er a word she spake | F |
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| Then said the one unto the other | U |
| 'Here man tak ye my knife | I |
| Do ye tak aff the auld man's beard | V |
| And I'll kiss the goodwife ' | - |
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| 'But there's nae water in the house | R |
| And what shall we do than ' | - |
| 'What ails ye at the pudding broo | U |
| That boils into the pan ' | - |
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| O up then started our goodman | W |
| An angry man was he | B |
| 'Will ye kiss my wife before my een | W |
| And sca'd me wi' pudding bree ' | - |
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| Then up and started our goodwife | I |
| Gi'ed three skips on the floor | U |
| 'Goodman you've spoken the foremost word | X |
| Get up and bar the door ' | - |
Frank Sidgwick
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