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John Barleycorn
Steve Winwood

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 plowed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in
Threw clods upon his head
And these three men made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn was dead

They've let him lie for a very long time, 'til the rains from heaven did fall
And little Sir John sprung up his head and so amazed them all
They've let him stand 'til Midsummer's Day 'til he looked both pale and wan
And little Sir John's grown a long long beard and so become a man
They've hired men with their scythes so sharp to cut him off at the knee
They've rolled him and tied him by the way, serving him most barbarously
They've hired men with their sharp pitchforks who've pricked him to the heart
And the loader he has served him worse than that
For he's bound him to the cart

They've wheeled him around and around a field 'til they came onto a pond
And there they made a solemn oath on poor John Barleycorn
They've hired men with their crabtree 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

And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl and his 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 or pots without a little barleycorn


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  (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired   40,000 Headmen   Adventures In Success   All Thru History   And I Go   Angel Of Mercy   Another Deal Goes Down   Arc Of A Diver   Ask Anybody   At Times We Do Forget   Back In The High Life   Back In The High Life Again   Back Into My Life Again   Berkshire Poppies   Big Girls Walk Away   Blind Man   Bully   Can't Find My Way Home   Carnival   Christmas Is Now Drawing Near At Hand   Cigano (For the Gypsies)   Coloured Rain   Come Out & Dance   Come Out And Dance   Cross Ing The Line   Crossroads   Cryin' To Be Heard   Dancing For Mental Health   Dear Mr. Fantasy   Dear Mr. Fantasy [Album Version]   Dear Mr. Fantasy [DVD]   Dear Mr. Fantasy [DVD][Live][*]   Different Light (Remastered)   Dimples   Dirty City   Do What You Like   Domingo Morning   Don't Be Sad   Don't Care   Don't Want You No More   Don't You Know What The Night Can Do   Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?   Double Trouble   Dream Gerrard   Dust   Dust My Blues   Empty Pages   Evening Blue   Every Day   Every Day (oh Lord)   Every Little Bit Hurts   Every Mother's Son   Every Night, Every Day   Family Affair   Far From Home   Feelin' Alright   Feelin' Good   Fill Me Up   Finer Things   Fly   For Beauties Sake   Forever Man   Forty Thousand Headmen   Freedom Overspill   Freedom Rider   Georgia on My Mind   Ghostmachine   Gimme Some Lovin'   Give It Up   Glad   Go Juan   Gojuan (Aaghh Mix)   Goodbye Stevie   Gotta Get Back to My Baby   Graveyard People   Had to Cry Today   Had To Cry Today [DVD]   Happy Birthday   Hearts On Fire   Heaven Is In Your Mind   Help Me Angel   Here Comes A Man   Here Right Now   Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush   Hey, Darling   Hidden Treasure   High Time Baby   Higher Love   Hold On   Holding On   Hole In My Shoe   Holy Ground   Hope I Never Find Me There   Horizon   House For Everyone   How Blue Can You Get   Hungry Man   I Can't Get Enough Of It   I Can't Stand It   I Want To Know   I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water   I Will Be Here   I'll Drown In My Own Tears   I'll Drown In My Tears   I'm A Man   I'm Blue   I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)   I'm Getting Better   I'm Not Drowning   If That Gun's For Real   Imagine   In The Light Of Day   It Hurts Me So   It Was Happiness   It's All Right   It's Gonna Work Out Fine   Jump Back   Just For You   Just Wanna Have Some Fun   Kansas City   Keep On Running   Keep On Running (Remastered)   Kissing With Confidence   Let Me Down Easy   Let Me Make Something in Your Life   Let Your Love Come Down   Light Up Or Leave Me Alone   Little Wing   Look Away   Lord Of The Street   Love   Love (Remastered)   Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys   Luck's In   Makes Me Wanna Pray   Man Of Constant Sorrow   Man Of Leo   Many A Mile To Freedom   Mean Woman Blues   Means To An End   Medicated Goo   Medicated Goo [Live]   Memories Of A Rock N' Rolla   Midland Maniac   Midnight Special   Midnight Train   Mojo Working   My Babe   My Love's Leavin'   Nature   Neighbor Neighbor   New Orleans   Night Time Is The Right Time   Night Train   No Face, No Name, No Number   No Time To Live   Nobody Loves You when You're Down & Out   Now That You're Alive   Nowhere Is Their Freedom   Oh! Pretty Woman   One & Only Man   One And Only Man   One More Morning   Opportunity   Other Shore   Paper Sun   Paper Sun [Album Version]   Pearly Queen   Pepsi Cola Jingle   Phoenix Rising   Please Do Something   Plenty Lovin'   Presence Of The Lord   Put On Your Dancin' Shoes   Put on Your Dancing Shoes   Raging Sea   Rainmaker   Rambling on My Mind   Reach For The Light   Real Love   Riding High   Rock & Roll Stew   Rock And Roll Stew   Roll Right Stones   Roll With It   Roll With It Baby   Rollright Stones   Running On   Sad & Deep As You   Sad & Deep as You   Sad And Deep As You   Sea Of Joy   Searchin'   Second Hand Woman   Second-Hand Woman   Secrets   Shanghai Noodle Factory   She Put The Hurt On Me   Shining Song   Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory (Remastered)   Shootout At The Fantasy Factory   Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave   Silvia   Silvia (Who Is She?)   Since I Met You Baby   Sittin' & Thinkin'   Sittin' And Thinkin'   Sleeping in the Ground   Slowdown Sundown   Smile   Smiling Phases   Solitude   Some Kinda Woman   Somebody Help Me   Someone Like You   Something New   Space Requiem   Space Song   Spanish Dancer   Split Decision   Spy In The House Of Love   State of Grace   Stellar   Stevie's Blues   Still In The Game   Stranger To Himself   Strong Love   Take It As It Comes   Take It To The Final Hour   Take This Hurt Off Me   Talking Back To The Night   Tell the Truth   That's All   That's Love   The Finer Things   The Low Spark of High - Heeled Boys   The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys   The Morning Side   There's a River   This Hammer   This Train Won't Stop   Time Is Here   Time Is Running Out   Together Till The End Of Time   Under My Thumb   Uninspired   Utterly Simple   Vacant Chair   Vagabond Virgin   Valerie   Wake Me up on Judgement Day   Wake Me up on Judgment Day   Walking In The Wind   Walking On   Watch Your Step   We're A Fade, You Missed This   We're All Looking   Well All Right   When A Man Loves A Woman   When I Come Home   When The Eagle Flies   While There's A Candle Burning   While You See A Chance   Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring (Remastered)   Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring?   Who Painted The Moon Black   Why Can't We Live Together   Will Powers   Winner/loser   Winner\/Loser   Withering Tree   You Can All Join In   You Must Believe Me   You'll Keep on Searching   Your Silence Is Your Song

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