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Introducción:
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There were three men came out of the west,
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Their fortunes for to try.
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And these three men made a solemn oath,
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John Barleycorn must die.
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They've ploughed, they've sewn, they've harrowed him in,
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Threw clods upon his head.
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And these three men made a solemn oath,
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John Barleycorn was dead.
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They've let him lie for a very long time,
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Till the rains from heaven did fall.
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And little Sir John sprung up his head,
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and so amazed them all.
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They've let him stand till Midsummer's Day,
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Till he looked both pale and wan.
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And these three men made a solemn oath,
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On poor John Barleycorn.
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They've hired men with the scythes so sharp,
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To cut him off at the knee.
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They've rolled him and tied him by the waist,
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Serving him most barbarously.
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They've hired men with the sharp pitchforks,
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Who pricked him to the heart.
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And the loader he has served him worse than that,
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For he's bound him to the cart.
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They've wheeled him around and around the field,
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Till they came unto a barn.
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And there they made a solemn oath,
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On poor John Barleycorn.
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They've hired men with the crab-tree sticks,
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To cut him skin from bone.
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And the miller he has served him worse than that,
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For he's ground him between two stones.
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And little Sir John and the nut-brown bowl,
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And heâ??s brandy in the glass.
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And little Sir John and the nut-brown bowl,
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Proved the strongest man at last.
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The huntsman, he can't hunt the fox,
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Nor so loudly to blow his horn.
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And the tinker he can't mend kettle nor pots,
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Without a little Barleycorn.