Key: C# minor
Intro 1
C#sus4
C#m
F#sus4
F#
C#m
C#sus4
Verse 1
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B
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Their fortunes for to try,
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C#m
And these three men
made a solemn vow:
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C#m
John Barleycorn should die.
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B
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Throwed clods upon
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C#
his head.
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C#m
Then these three men made
a solemn vow:
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John Barleycorn was dead.
Interlude 1
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F#
C#m
C#
C#sus4
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They
Verse 2
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C#m
let him lie for a very long time
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F#
Till the rain from heaven did
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B
fall.
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C#m
Then little Sir John he
raised up his head
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And he soon amazed them
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all.
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C#m
They let him lie till the long midsummer
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B
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Till he looked both pale and
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wan.
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C#m
Then little Sir John growed a long,
long beard
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And so became a man.
Interlude 2
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C#m
F#
G#m
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C#m
They
Verse 3
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C#m
hired men with
the scythes so sharp
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To cut him off down by
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C#m
They rolled him and tied him
around by the waist,
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Served him most barbarously.
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C#m
They hired men with
the sharp pitchforks
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Who pierced him to the heart.
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For he bound him to the cart.
Interlude 3
C#sus4
C#
F#
C#m
F#
C#sus4
C#m
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C#m
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C#m
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C#m
B
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They
Verse 4
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C#m
rode him around and around the field
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Till they came into a barn,
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C#m
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And there they made a solemn mow
They hired men with the crab- tree sticks
Who cut him skin from bone
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But the miller,
he served him far worse than that
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C#m
For he ground him between two stones.
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F#sus4
F#
Verse 5
C#
C#m
F#m
F#
C#m
Here's little Sir John in
the nut- brown bowl
B
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C#m
And brandy in a glass.
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C#m
And little Sir John in
the nut- brown bowl
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Proved the stronger man at last.
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For the hunter, he can't hunt the fox
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Nor so loudly blow his horn,
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And the tinker,
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Without a little bit of John Barleycorn.
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C#sus4
Outro 1
C#m
C#
C#m
B
F#sus4
F#
C#
C#m
F#
C#m
C#
C#
F#
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