The Barleycorn-The Johnstons

[ti:The Barleycorn] [ar:The Johnstons] [al:The Johnstons/The Barley Corn] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Barleycorn - The Johnstons [00:07.74]There were three farmes in the north [00:09.44]As they were passing by [00:10.73] [00:11.30]They swore an oath a mighty oath that barleycorn should die [00:14.48] [00:15.09]One of them said drown him [00:16.48]And the other said hang him high [00:18.51]For whoever will stick to barleygrain a begging that he will die [00:22.19]Beforely nothing to do the knee and pack in [00:25.15]Will die [00:26.80] [00:27.33]They put poor barley into a sack [00:28.83]On a cold and rainy day [00:30.30] [00:30.95]And brought him up to cumfield [00:32.84]And buried him in the clay [00:34.58]Frost and snow began to melt [00:36.20]And the dew began to fall [00:38.38]Then barleygrain put up his head [00:40.08]And he soon surprised them all [00:41.43]Wait me falling nothing to do with [00:43.63]They only sucide for ever [00:46.90]Being in the summer season [00:48.31]And the harvest coming on [00:50.28]Is the time he stands up in the field [00:52.08]With his beard like any man [00:53.57] [00:54.24]The reaper then came with his sickle [00:55.93]And used me barberously [00:57.73]Oh he cut me by the middle so small [00:59.49]And he cut me above the knee [01:01.40]Wait me falling nothing to do with [01:03.41]They only cut me of the knee [01:06.42]The next came was the binder [01:08.17]And he looked at me with a frown [01:10.15]But in the middle there was a thistle [01:11.90]Which pulled his courage down [01:13.87]The farmer came with his pitch fork [01:15.81]And pierced me to the heart [01:17.22]Like a thief a rouge or a highwayman [01:19.45]They tied me to the cart [01:20.97]Wait me falling nothing to do with [01:22.81]They only tide me to the girl [01:25.81] [01:45.92]The thresher came with his big flail [01:47.66]And soon he broke my bones [01:49.46]Could grieve the heart of any man to hear my [01:51.95]Sighs and moans [01:53.22]The next thing that they've done to me [01:55.17]They steeped me in the well [01:56.94]And they left me there for a day and a night [01:58.68]Until I began to swell [02:00.44]Wait me falling nothing to do with [02:02.28]Till I tell begun to swell [02:05.61]And the next thing that they've done to me [02:07.46]They dried me in the kiln [02:09.33]They used me ten times worse than that [02:10.88]They ground me in the mill [02:12.94]They used me in the kitchen [02:14.84]They used me in the hall oh [02:16.94]They used me in the parlour among the ladies' all [02:20.35]Wait me falling nothing to do with [02:22.25]Among the ladies' all [02:25.37]The barleygrain is a comical grain it makes men sigh and moan [02:28.90]But when they take a glass or two [02:30.53]They forget their wives at home [02:32.67]The drunkard is a dirty man he used me worst of all [02:36.10]Oh he drank me up in his dirty mouth and [02:38.59]He tumbled against the wall [02:40.09]Wait me falling nothing to do with [02:42.04]He tumbled against the wall