《John Barleycorn》歌词

[00:00:01] There were three men

[00:00:02] Came from the west

[00:00:03] Their fortunes for to tell

[00:00:04] And the life of John Barleycorn

[00:00:04] As well

[00:00:05] They laid him three furrows deep

[00:00:07] Laid clods upon his head

[00:00:11] The these three men made a solemn vow

[00:00:19] John Barleycorn was dead

[00:00:27] They let him die for a very long time

[00:00:30] Till the rain from heaven did fall

[00:00:34] Then little Sir John sprang up his head

[00:00:38] And he did amaze them all

[00:00:49] They let him stand till the midsummer day

[00:00:53] Till he looked both pale and wan

[00:00:57] Then little Sir John he grew a long beard

[00:01:03] And so became a man

[00:01:19] They have hired men with the scythes so sharp

[00:01:31] To cut him off at the knee

[00:01:35] They rolled and they tied him around the waist

[00:01:42] The served him barbarously

[00:02:05] They have hired men with the crab-tree sticks

[00:02:09] To cut him skin from bone

[00:02:13] And the miller he has served him worse than that

[00:02:19] For he's ground him between two stones

[00:02:44] They've wheeled him here they've wheeled him there

[00:02:48] They've wheeled him to a barn

[00:02:51] And they have served him worse than that

[00:03:01] They've bunged him in a vat

[00:03:22] They have worked their will on John Barleycorn

[00:03:25] But he lived to tell the tale

[00:03:29] For they pour him out of an old brown jug

[00:03:35] And they call him home brewed ale