Key: D minor
Verse 1
come out of the west,
their fortunes for to try,
And these three men
made a solemn vow,
John Barleycorn should die.
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Threw cloths upon his head,
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And these three men
made a solemn vow,
John Barleycorn was dead.
Then they let him lie for a very long time
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till the rain from heaven did fall.
Then little Sir John sprang up his head
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and soon amazed them all.
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They let him stand till midsummer,
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till he looked both pale and worn.
and so became a man.
They hired men with the size of a shop
to cut him off at knee.
They rolled him and tied
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him by the waist,
And served him barbarously.
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They hired men with sharp -edged forks,
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Who pricked him to the heart,
him worse than that,
For he bound him to the cart.
They wheeled him round
and round the field,
Till they came unto a barn,
And there they made a solemn vow,
Of poor John Barleycorn.
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They hired men with crabtree sticks,
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To cut him skin from bone,
worse than that,
For he'd ground him between
two stones.
Here's little Sir John in a nut -brown bow,
And Brandy in a glass.
And little Sir John in the nut -brown bow,
Proved the stronger man at last.
And the huntsman,
he can't hunt the fox,
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Nor so loudly blow his horn.
he can't mend kettles or pots,
Without a little John Barley corn.
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