Get Up and Bar the Door

Get Up and Bar the Door is a medieval Scots ballad about a battle of wills between a husband and wife.

[1] The story begins with the wife busy in her cooking of the pudding and house hold chores as well.

Finally, the husband shouts "Will ye kiss my wife before my een, and scald me with pudding-broth?"

The wife, having won the argument, gives three skips on the floor and says to her husband: "Goodman, you've spoken the foremost word, Get up and bar the door."

Among many things, this folk ballad talks about the sense of lasting competition in a relationship.