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Thread #19412 Message #670443
Posted By: michaelr
16-Mar-02 - 07:46 PM
Thread Name: Penguin: John Barleycorn
Subject: RE: Penguin: John Barleycorn
It's always bothered me that the traditional lyrics make no link between the threshing and milling and the final product, the ale. So I wrote (and have been singing) the following additional lyrics:
They wheeled him around and around the fields `Til they came unto a barn *And waiting there were men with clubs *To thresh poor Barleycorn *They put Sir John in the malting kiln *To roast and dry his bones And the miller he has served him worse than that For he's ground him between two stones *They poured him into the mashing tun *To boil and scald his tail They called him nut-brown ale