The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom; (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 45
nate the soldiers (fig. i). Some of the soldiers KING OF THE BARBARIE go to the fortress and surround it, singing the first verse (fig. 2).The children in the fortress reply, the four first verses beingthus sung alternately. The soldiers then go to the Kingsinging the fifth verse (fig. 3), the… … (fig. 4). All the soldiers try to do this, one after the otlier;finally the King comes, who breaks down the guard. The wholetroop of soldiers then burst through the parted arms (fig. 5). This is the Deptford version. The Clapham version isalmost identical; the children take hold of each others…
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