“Take the Money and Run” Compared to “Get up and Bar the Door”
...bery due to boredom. It tells of them running from the police and never getting caught. This is a story of an adolescent adventure. The story in Get up and Bar the Door is very different from Take the Money and Run. This is a classic example of battle of the sexes. A man and his wife are sitting down to eat for a feast called Martinmas. They feel a breeze and recognize that the door needs to be “bared”. First, the husband tells his wife to get up and bar the door but she refuses due to the fact that she is still fixing the meal and responds by telling him to “Bar” it himself. After a small dispute the wife makes a deal that the first one of them to speak a word had to get up and do it. Two men come by and obviously are confused as to why they are not talking. One man says to the other, “Here man take my knife; Do ye tak aff the auld man’s beard, and I’ll kiss the goodwife.”(l 30) The men attempt to shave the man’s beard but before they could do it he speaks up and says, “Will ye kiss my wife before my een. And scad me with pudding-bree?” After this, the goodwife stands up and states, “Goodman, you’ve spoken the foremost word. Get up and bar the door.” Secondly, they both have rhythm and Rhyme. Get up and bar the Door has the Rhyme scheme of ABCB. It has eleven stanzas with four lines each to equal forty four lines in all. Take the money and Run doesn’t really have a rhyme scheme but it does rhyme. Because it is a song it obviously has rhythm to it. Lastly, both ballads have a refrain. A refrain is a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines. Take the Money and Run has a refrain ...