"John Barleycorn" genre: Folk
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	A trad folk song given a new treatment.
	MP3.com CD: Poetry & Songs - buy it! MP3.com CD: Best of the Bard - buy it! MP3.com CD: Barleycorn Now! - buy it! CD: New Folking Reality   Label: Pink Lemon Records on the vinyl EP Mask Credits: Steve Andrews: vocals, guitar and arrangement, Ian Wallace: samples and keyboards, Glyn Groves: mandolin
	Story Behind the Song I just love the song and wanted to try a modern arrangement. Lyrics There were 3 men, came out of the West, Their fortunes for to try And these 3 men made a solemn vow: John Barleycorn should die; They took a plough and ploughed him down, Threw clods all on his head And these 3 men made a solemn vow: John Barleycorn was dead. They let him lie for a very long time Till the rain from Heaven did fall And Little Sir John he raised up his head And so amazed them all, They let him lie through the summer sun Till he looked all pale and wan And Little Sir John grew a long, long beard And so became a man. They hired men with the scythes so sharp To cut him all down by the knee, They roped and tied him 'round by the waist, Served him most barbarously, They hired men with pitchforks to pierce him to the heart But the loader he served him more barbarous than that For he bound him to the cart. They filled up a loathsome pit with water to the brim And heaved in poor John Barleycorn To watch him sink or swim, They hauled him out across the floor To work him further woe And as signs of life appeared they'd toss him to and fro. They roasted over a scorching flame the very marrow of his bones But the miller he served him more barbarous than that For he ground him between 2 stones. Here's Little Sir John in a nut-brown bowl And brandy in the glass And Little Sir John in a nut-brown bowl Proved the stronger man at last For the hunter he can't hunt the fox Or so loudly blow his horn And the tinker he can't mend his kettles or his pots Without a little bit of John Barleycorn.

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