DADGAD Guitar: John Barleycorn Must Die (Including lyrics and chords)

Two people (viroflay and TheFreeman35) have requested this song which is one I know of, but have never heard before. I have listened to a couple of versions and have made my own arrangement using DADGAD tuning on my guitar. It is a nice old traditional song with a somewhat mystical meaning connected I think to fertility rites.

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Education

Tags:

• threelegsoman
• John
• Barleycorn
• Must
• Die
• English
• Folk
• Song
• Lyrics
• Chords
• Acoustic
• Guitar
• DADGAD
• Tuning
• Finger-picking

[TheFreeman35]

thanks for doing that tony,you did an awesome job there ..bravo sir.

[threelegsoman]

@TheFreeman35 You are very welcome. Thanks for the suggestion.

[KOKOPELLI551]

thank you so much finally after 30 years for the lyrics

[mcfrdmn]

Lovely musical performance!

[swanproximity]

The song is about making whisky.

[hakkamantis]

Well done Tony This is a great favourite of mine.

[viroflay]

Merci Tony for answering our request and for putting this very personal version of the song, congrats !

[polak277]

Super

[Haycroft2]

Thanks for doing this Tony, one of my favourite Folk Songs. The local Morris men

used to sing this a lot, and I always thought that the song was about the brewing of ale.

[davedupplaw]

Oh, this is a great song. I heard the band Crowfoot play it (on their album Footpath) although they play a very different version to this. Although the guitarist there also uses DADGAD. I keep meaning to learn this one myself.

[Sting575]

Great job