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John Barleycorn

The document is a sheet music for the traditional English folk song "John Barleycorn" arranged by Gustav von Holst. The song tells the story of John Barleycorn, a personification of barley used to brew beer and whiskey. It describes the agricultural cycle of barley from planting to harvesting through the seasons, portraying it as a tragic story where John Barleycorn is killed by the processes of reaping, threshing and malting. The chorus repeats "With my row di diddle rite row di day" throughout the song.

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John Barleycorn

The document is a sheet music for the traditional English folk song "John Barleycorn" arranged by Gustav von Holst. The song tells the story of John Barleycorn, a personification of barley used to brew beer and whiskey. It describes the agricultural cycle of barley from planting to harvesting through the seasons, portraying it as a tragic story where John Barleycorn is killed by the processes of reaping, threshing and malting. The chorus repeats "With my row di diddle rite row di day" throughout the song.

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trad. (coll. G. B. Gardiner), arr.

Gustav von Holst


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And he became a man,
Then Barleycorn he got a beard,
And looked both pale and wan;
4. There he remained till midsummer,

CHORUS. - With my &c.
And so amazed them all,
Then Barleycorn sprung up his head,
Till rain from heaven did fall;
3. There he lay sleeping in the ground,

CHORUS. - With my &c.
John Barleycorn was dead,
And these three kings they swore and vowed,
With clods all over his head;
2. They ploughed him in, they harrowed him in,

CHORUS. - With my fol le diddle rite fol le day.
John Barleycorn should die,
They all did make a solemn vow,
Came from the North so high,
1. There were three kings came from the North,
CHORUS. - With my &c.
By the turning of your hand,
It will do more than any grain,
That ever was sown on land;
8. O! Barleycorns the choicest grain

CHORUS. - With my &c.
And ground him twixt two stones,
The miller served him worse than that,
And whipped him skin from bone;
7. They hir-ed men with crab-tree sticks,

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They bound him to a cart,
And like a dreadful tragedy,
To pierce him through the heart;
6. Then they sent men with pitchforks strong

CHORUS. - With my &c.
They served him barbarously,
And then poor little Barleycorn,
To cut him off at knee;
5. Then they sent men with scythes so sharp
This sheet music has been placed in the public domain by the typesetter, for details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Typeset using www.LilyPond.org by Nigel Holmes. Reference: Mutopia-2006/09/11-814
Sheet music from www.MutopiaProject.org Free to download, with the freedom to distribute, modify and perform.

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