{"id":35,"date":"2018-09-23T23:26:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T23:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/wordpress\/?p=35"},"modified":"2025-06-09T21:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T04:55:35","slug":"oats-and-beans-and-barley-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/23\/oats-and-beans-and-barley-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Oats and Beans and Barley Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a seasonal favorite at EBCMP socials and festivals. I haven&#8217;t been able to find a version on YouTube that shows the dance with the melody as I taught it in class, so I&#8217;ll post links to both the vocal version (the melody I led) and a dance version (with a different melody, but basically the same dance steps). Finally, I included a score if you&#8217;d like to download and print the music. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0BwlnKdu3w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yI4iQNpGP04?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oats_Peas_Beans_and_Barley_Grow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Info at Wikipedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Oats-and-Beans-and-Barley-Grow-Full-Score-Instructions.pdf\">Oats and Beans and Barley Grow &#8211; Full Score-Instructions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a seasonal favorite at EBCMP socials and festivals. I haven&#8217;t been able to find a version on YouTube that shows the dance with the melody as I taught it in class, so I&#8217;ll post links to both the vocal version (the melody I led) and a dance version (with a different melody, but &#8230; <a title=\"Oats and Beans and Barley Grow\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/23\/oats-and-beans-and-barley-grow\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oats and Beans and Barley Grow\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-music","category-musicology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paor1p-z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":168,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/18\/the-three-ravens\/","url_meta":{"origin":35,"position":0},"title":"The Three Ravens, Twa Corbies, Poor Old Crow, Crow Song","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"August 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Flute collection contains two songs that help illustrate the fascinating phenomenon of the folk process: The Three Ravens and The Crow Song. 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