Digital Tradition Mirror

Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow

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Pennywhistle notation and Dulcimer tab for this song is also available

Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow

Oats, peas, beans and barley grow
Oats, peas, beans and barley grow
Can you or I or anyone know
Why oats, peas, beans and barley grow.

Come my love and go with me (3x)
And I will take good care of thee.

You are too young, you are not fit (3x)
You cannot leave your mother yet.

You're old enough, you're just about right (3x)
I asked your mother last Saturday night.

Note: The first verse, as I recall, was in the Original Mother
     Goose (late 18th century); the others were encountered (along
     with the first) in Kentucky in the 1930s. RG
RG

Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!