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capo 7 — sounds 7 semitones higherIntro
D C G Am Asus2 Am Asus2 x2
Verse 1
There were three men came out of the west,
their fortunes for to try
And these three men made a solemn vow:
John Barleycorn must die.
They've ploughed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in;
threw clods at Barley's head
And these three men made a solemn vow:
John Barleycorn was dead.
D C G Am Asus2 Am Asus2 x4
Verse 2
They've let him lie for a very long time,
‘till the rains from heaven did fall
And little Sir John sprung up his head,
and so amazed them all.
They've let him stand ‘till midsummer's day,
‘till he looked both pale and wan
And little Sir John's grown a long, long beard,
and so become a man.
D C G Am Asus2 Am Asus2 x4
Verse 3
They've hired men with the scythes so sharp,
to cut him off at the knee
They've rolled him and tied him by the waist,
servin' him most barbarously.
They've hired men with the sharp pitchforks,
who pricked him to the heart
And the loader he has served him worse than that,
for he's bound him to the cart
D C G Am Asus2 Am Asus2 x4
Verse 4
They've wheeled him around and around the field,
‘till they came unto a barn
And there they made a solemn oath,
on poor John Barleycorn.
They've hired men with the crab-tree sticks,
to cut him skin from bone
And the miller he has served him worse than that,
for he's ground him between two stones.
D C G Am Asus2 Am Asus2 x4
Verse 5
And little Sir John and the nut-brown bowl,
and he's brandy in the glass
And little Sir John and the nut-brown bowl,
proved the strongest man at last.
The huntsman, he can't hunt the fox,
nor so loudly to blow his horn
And the tinker he can't mend kettle nor pots,
Outro
without a little Barleycorn
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