John Barleycorn (Live)-Fairport Convention

[ti:John Barleycorn(Live)] [ar:Fairport Convention] [al:Cropredy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]John Barleycorn (Live) - Fairport Convention (公平港口大会) [02:28.40]There were three men come out of the west [02:31.59]Their fortunes for to try [02:35.45]And these three men made a solemn vow [02:39.37]John Barleycorn would die [02:43.29] [02:43.95]They've ploughed they've sown they've harrowed [02:47.29]Thrown clods upon his head [02:51.15]Till these three men were satisfied [02:54.91]John Barleycorn was dead [02:58.84]There's beer all in the barrel and brandy in the glass [03:06.89]But little Sir John with his nut-brown bowl [03:10.70]Proved the strongest man at last [03:14.68]They've let him lie for a long long time [03:18.90]Till the rains from heaven did fall [03:22.43]And little Sir John sprang up his head [03:26.52]And so amazed them all [03:30.46]They've let him stand till midsummer's day [03:34.41]And he looks both pale and wan [03:38.58]Then little Sir John's grown a long long beard [03:42.47]And so become a man [03:46.44]There's beer all in the barrel and brandy in the glass [03:54.61]But little Sir John with his nut-brown bowl [03:58.38]Proved the strongest man at last [04:02.19]There's beer all in the barrel and brandy in the glass [04:10.14]But little Sir John with his nut-brown bowl [04:14.09]Proved the strongest man at last [04:19.47] [04:49.37]So they've hired men with the sharp-edged scythes [04:53.50]To cut him off at the knee [04:57.37]They've rolled him and tied him around the waist [05:01.06]Treated him most barbarously [05:05.16]They've hired men with the sharp-edged forks [05:09.19]To prick him to the heart [05:12.48] [05:13.17]And the loader has served him worse than [05:16.44]That for he's bound him to the cart [05:20.07]So they have wheeled him around and around the field [05:25.14]Till they've come unto a barn [05:28.24] [05:28.86]And here they've kept their solemn word concerning Barleycorn [05:37.14]They've hired men with the crabtree sticks [05:41.09]To split him skin from bone [05:45.01]And the miller has served him worse than that [05:49.40] [05:53.30]Wait for what [05:54.63] [05:55.61]For he's ground him between two stones [05:59.59]There's beer all in the barrel and brandy in the glass [06:07.71]But little Sir John with his nut-brown bowl [06:11.87]Proved the strongest man at last [06:15.52]There's beer all in the barrel and brandy in the glass [06:23.67]But little Sir John with his nut-brown bowl [06:27.89]Proved the strongest man at last [06:31.96] [06:32.56]And the huntsman he can't hunt the fox [06:38.19]Nor loudly blow his horn [06:43.75]And the tinker he can't mend his pots [06:51.11] [06:51.78]Without John Barleycorn