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JOHN BARLEYCORN
by Mathew Harmon Scarbro

I've done with you, John Barleycorn!
Forever, John, adieu!
We've had some trade together, John,
And I have cause to rue.
You're not the friend I thought you, John
In life's gay sunny morn
You charmed my heart, then knocked me down:
Adieu, John Barleycorn!

I once had gold, John Barleycorn,
Bright guineas not a few,
But now I've empty pockets, John,
Since I've had trade with you.
My dearest friends have left me, John,
And treat me now with scorn:
You've brought disgrace upon my head,
Adieu, John Barleycorn!

No more in life, John Barleycorn,
Will I your charms pursue;
Such false pernicious friendship, John,
I never will renew
The world a man once thought me, John.
A nation to adorn,
But you have made me what I am,
Adieu, John Barleycorn!

I've found a friend, John Barleycorn,
A better friend than you:
We've made some trade together,John,
And I have cause to rue.
You're not the friend I thought you, John,
In life's gay, sunny morn:
You charmed my heart the knocked me down,
Adieu, John Barleycorn!



Yorkshire Anthology: Ballads & Songs Ancient & Modern, (with Several Hundred Real Epitaphs,) Covering a Period of a Thousand Years of Yorkshire History in Verse; with Notes Bibliographical, Biographical, Topographical, Dialectic &c., and Quaint and Original Illus
Joseph Horsfall Turner
Harrison publisher , 1901, p 417-18.
accessed through Google Books December. 15, 2015





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