Glad you like it 😊

Thank you very much Epitopou Maps 🧡🙏

+Berrocscir Hormer I quite agree. Best version ive heard!

Listen to Steeleye Spans version

Will do.

Yes, I different, more theatrical take.

........And hear how it should NOT be done.

Glad you like this. 😊🤟

Thank you 😊

Either way he dies. But he resurrects so all is well perhaps.

Thank you very much! 💛

Lyz sure does have a beautiful voice! Thank you 😊

Thank you Maggie 🙏

Thank you John🙏

But the song is no older than 1624 when it was registered in London as 'Sir John Barleycorne'.

@@Wotsitorlabart Folk songs are not registered when they are composed they are passed down by word of mouth. 1624 was the first known record of john Barleycorn, it doesn't mean it was written then.

​​​​@@johnbrereton5229 But there is no evidence at all for the song before that date. And the song as we now know it was a more or less complete 1700's re-write of that earliest version - lopping off a number of verses and tightening the narrative. Whoever it was who did the re-write was certainly smarter than the average broadside hack. All this stuff about Anglo-Saxons, sacrifices, corn spirits etc is the usual wishful thinking- attempting to create a pagan Pre-Christian origin that just isn't there.

@@Wotsitorlabart A 'flight of fantasy' would be more like coming up with a elaborate theory without any evidence, only a wish for it to be so. Therefore, It's hardly a flight of fantasy when there are not one, but many similarities. Therefore its highly likely to be true, though no one can prove it definitively one way, or tother.

Why pagan?

clare carter listen to the Version of Winterfylleth

Thank you Clare 😊

You heard the original? Wow, how Old are you? Lol

The original was 400 years ago

Thank you John 🙏

Thank you 😊

Thank you 🙏

As my family knows too well, i am the one setting the bad example

The song will one day get cancelled the way things are going!!

Sadly,it is very real.​@@celticpirateproductions

Exactly.. Morgana. You hit that on the head..

I couldn't avoid to imagine her. She's always despicted with a dark look.

Morgan Lefay. Welsh and Old French. Check with Malory.

Thank you 😊

So far it's the best version I could find on the internet! @@celticpirateproductions

Email me at celticpirateproductions@gmail.com 😊

Thank you. The Steeleye Span version is of course pretty marvelous!!

I like the John Renbourne version too but why would you discourage this group and their effort?👎

Her name is Lyz Le Fay and she can be found on Facebook. I'm sure she would be happy to help. Good luck 🤞

@@celticpirateproductions thank you..

Thank you Plunckett! It's only available on a 10 track CD which is still available from myself if you are interested.

@@celticpirateproductions Yes please Mark

Thank you! Cool, how did your recording go?

@@celticpirateproductions not bad actually. It's on my channel💛 but i really like yours!

Thank you 😊

Hi, we're not currently performing at the moment but we do have CD's available.

how do I go about buying them? (I live in Italy)

@@celticpirateproductions How do I go about getting the cd's ?

Omg I am so sorry for the VERY late reply! I hope I find you well. Please accept my apologies by way of sending you a CD for free! Please email me mark@medicinefolkrock.com xx

Thank you very much 🙏

Oh, it will, will it??

Thank you Michael 😊

Celtic?

Hi Andrew, there isn't anything online but I have a 10 track (I think) CD, which includes John Barleycorn, that I could send you. Let me know if you might be interested. Cheers. Mark 😊

@@celticpirateproductions That would be wonderful! My email is acnpt23@gmail.com. Drop me a line and we can work out the details. Thank you again for responding to me!

Cierto...se parece a la voz de Joan Baez....

Yes, very Joan Baez like. 💛

En efecto, es una metáfora del cultivo de la cebada y su posterior transformación en cerveza. Fue impresa por primera vez en 1580, pero hay teorías que afirman que es mucho más, antigua, tal vez de la época anterior a la conquista normanda.

Sorry for the late reply. We come from Essex in England.

​@@MariaPerez-gb6tf Earliest known version was registered with the London Stationer's Company on 14th December 1624 and titled 'Sir John Barleycorne'.

They would be wrong.

@@elyrexo The well known version of 'John Barleycorn' in the video is a mid 1700's total re-write of the original much longer song of 1624 - both were written by professional or semi-pro songwriters for the broadside ballad trade. This coupled with the fact that by this time England had been Christian for going on 1000 years makes any 'underlying pagan sentiments' rather unlikely. As Steve Roud (he of the Roud Folk Song Index) notes in the 'Penguin Book of English Folk Songs' - it is simply a very clever allegory.

@@elyrexo I don't think they worshipped nature as such and I don't think they would have marvelled although I think a satisfaction with creation would prevail but I believe they were far cleverer than we are and had advanced understanding of nature and science. A recurring ultimate emblem is the sun as they would easily appreciate the whole ecosystem was powered by it. I don't think that implies any primitive worship either. Moderns like to characterise them as ugga bugga simpletons unable to explain natural phenomena but they would not fail to appreciate the importance of its role. Hence the universal presence of the swastika and other sun signs.

A female vocal and no flute, so how much more is needed?

You realize, I hope, that this song is ancient. It's from the late 16th century. So really, they did a nice tribute to history, with a slightly modem twist.

I like the Traffic version-but my wife said sing the Robert Burns poem-which is cool-but-it is an old song...so....

​@@leaarinwarkentine This version is based on the 1700's total re-write of the 1624 original.

Her name is Lyz Le Fay 😊

Thank you 🙏

Yes there are 2 CD's available for purchase at £10 each if you are interested... 😊

@@celticpirateproductions Yes, I'm interested.

Email me at celticpirateproductions@gmail.com and I'll send you the CD info.

Thank you. Yeah, bit late now though dude

How kind 😊

Thank you very much! 💛

The original?

Aha 😊

A Ha Ha :)))))

I think so...

The west is sunset symbolizing death.

Yes, I know. But thank you 😊

EEEEEEEK... Oh no!!

Whiskey making, although some say beer.

Yes, that's right! 🙏

The song was written in 1624 and the version in the video is a 1700's complete re-write. It has nothing to do with sacrificing a 'king' or any such nonsense. It is simply a clever allegory.

So sorry, I can't read this.

The BigMac large huge... Do you have a punchable one?