John Barleycorn (Must Die)-Traffic

[ti:John Barleycorn (Must Die)] [ar:Traffic] [al:John Barleycorn Must Die Deluxe Edition] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.27]John Barleycorn (Must Die) - Traffic [00:02.77]Written by：Steve Winwood/Traditional [00:04.10] [00:14.18]There were three men [00:16.59]Came out of the west [00:20.79]Thier fortunes for to try [00:24.92] [00:26.64]And these three men [00:29.16]Made a solemn vow [00:32.89] [00:33.45]John Barleycorn should die [00:37.97] [00:39.73]They've plowed they've sown [00:41.91]They've harrowed him in [00:44.51] [00:45.07]Through clods upon his head [00:49.31] [00:50.88]And these three men [00:53.21]Made a solemn vow [00:58.07]John barleycorn was dead [01:01.94] [01:03.56]They've let him lie [01:06.06]For a very long time [01:10.34]'Till the rain from heaven did fall [01:14.68] [01:15.82]And little Sir John sprung up his head [01:22.68]And so amazed them all [01:26.76] [01:28.98]They've let him stand [01:31.17]'Till midsummer's day [01:34.21]'Till he looked both pale and wan [01:41.01] [01:42.97]And little Sir John's [01:45.40]Grown a long long beard [01:49.26]And so become a man [01:53.63] [01:58.24]They've hired men [02:00.69]With their scythes so sharp [02:04.64] [02:05.45]To cut him off at the knee [02:10.02] [02:10.92]They've rolled him [02:12.61]And tied him by the way [02:18.01]Serving him most barbarously [02:21.97] [02:23.74]They've hired men [02:26.46]With their sharp pitchforks [02:29.45]Who've pricked him to the heart [02:36.73] [02:38.02]And the loader he served him [02:41.10]Worse than that [02:44.97]For he's bound him to the cart [02:48.75] [03:07.54]They've wheeled him around [03:10.13]And around a field [03:14.29]'Till they came unto a pond [03:18.53] [03:20.49]And there they made a solemn oath [03:27.32]On poor John Barleycorn [03:31.18] [03:32.99]They've hired men with their crabtree sticks [03:38.24] [03:38.99]To cut him skin from bone [03:46.60] [03:47.17]And the miller he has served him [03:50.42]Worse than that [03:53.13] [03:54.17]For he's ground him between two stones [03:58.63] [04:02.65]As supposed to John [04:05.26]And the nut brown bowl [04:09.75]And his brandy in the glass [04:14.07] [04:15.50]At supposed to John [04:18.12]With his nut brown bowl [04:22.18]As proved the strongest man at last [04:26.44] [04:28.49]The huntsman he can't hunt the fox [04:33.87]Nor so loudly to blow his horn [04:40.69] [04:42.06]And the thinker he can't mend kettle or pots [04:48.37] [04:49.18]Without a little Barleycorn