John Barleycorn-Nigel Perrin/David Parsons

[ti:John Barleycorn] [ar:Nigel Perrin] [al:The Water is Wide and other Lute Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.56]There were three men came out of the west [00:04.55]Their fortunes for to try [00:07.93]John Barleycorn - Nigel Perrin [00:09.01]And these three men made a solemn vow [00:13.35] [00:14.04]John barley corn should die [00:17.10] [00:18.66]They've plowed they've sown they've harrowed him in [00:22.54] [00:23.32]Threw clods upon his head [00:26.79] [00:28.24]And these three men made a solemn vow [00:34.18] [00:35.22]John barley corn was dead [00:40.09] [00:42.00]They've let him lie for a very long time [00:46.07]Til the rains from heaven did fall [00:49.14] [00:50.16]And little sir john sprung up his head [00:54.65]And so amazed them all [00:57.89] [00:58.61]They've let him stand 'til midsummer's day [01:02.97]Til he looked both pale and wan [01:06.24] [01:07.15]And little sir john's he grown long a beard [01:12.08] [01:13.13]And so become a man [01:17.20] [01:20.07]And they've hired men with their scythes [01:23.58]So sharp to cut him off at the knee [01:27.64] [01:28.75]They've rolled him and tied him [01:31.40]By the way i serving him most barbarously [01:36.08] [01:36.99]They've hired of men with their sharp pitchforks [01:41.19]Who've pricked him to the heart [01:44.89] [01:45.80]And the loader he served him worse than that [01:50.78] [01:51.67]For he's bound him to the cart [01:56.11] [01:57.91]They've wheeled him around and around a field 'til [02:02.37]They came onto a pond [02:05.79] [02:06.58]And there they made a solemn on poor john barley corn [02:15.86] [02:16.72]They've hired men with [02:19.01]Their crabtree sticks to cut him skin from bone [02:24.61] [02:25.75]And the miller he served him worse than that [02:30.72] [02:31.68]For he's ground him between two stones [02:36.17] [02:38.86]And here sir john and the nut brown bowl [02:43.17]And his brandy in the glass [02:46.25] [02:47.19]And little sir john and the nut brown bowl proved [02:51.59]The strongest man at last [02:54.41] [02:55.33]And the huntsman he can't hunt the [02:58.38]Fox nor so loudly to blow his horn [03:03.33] [03:04.69]And the tinker he can not mend kettle [03:08.02]Or pots without a little barley corn [03:19.07]