Key: Ab major
Intro 1
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The
Verse 1
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Three Men
The Wild
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Three Men come out of the West,
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their fortunes for to try
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And these three men made
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a solemn vow,
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And these three men
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made a solemn vow
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John Barleycorn was dead
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They let him lie for a long, long time
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Then little Sir John,
he sprung up his head
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And he soon amazed them all
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Then they let him lie till midsummer
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Then little Sir John grew a long, beard,
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and so became a man.
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They hired men with a scythe so sharp
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to cut him off at the knee.
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tied him by the waist,
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served him most barbarously.
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sharp pitchforks
to prick him to the heart.
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But the loader, served him worse than that
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For he bound him to the cart
wheeled him around in a field
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For the poor John Barleycorn
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So they hired men with a crabtree sticks
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For he ground him between two stone
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s
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There's brandy in the glass
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And little Sir John in
the not -brown bowl
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Threw the strongest man at last
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Because the huntsman,
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he can't hunt the fox
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Nor so loudly blow his horn
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Without a little barleycorn
John Barleycorn
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John Barleycorn
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John Barleycorn
You
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