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48. Maybe a song...

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 03:59 PM

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I have, on an album by June Tabor, her rendition of the song “Barbara Allen”. That might be the oldest thing in my house. Not the album and not the recording. The song itself.

It was first mentioned on Jan 2, 1666. It’s probably at least 100 years older than that.

It’s not only very old, it’s also one of the greatest songs to be written in the English language.

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