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John Barleycorn

from A Baker's Dozen by Mary Humphreys and Anahata

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The tune only was collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams from cement-worker Llewellyn Mallion of Fen Ditton in 1906. It was probably sung to him in the now defunct pub The Harvest Home at Green End, next door to where Mr Mallion lived. His two brothers Bill and Harry both were farm workers and supplied songs to Vaughan Williams on other occasions. He would have been familiar with the seasonal round of the ploughboy’s year, and there is no denying he would have been partial to a drop of the old John Barleycorn served next door. The text is one compiled from many sources and is not specific to Cambridgeshire.
~ Mary Humphreys

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from A Baker's Dozen, released June 6, 2012
Mary Humphreys: vocals
Anahata: one row melodeon in D

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