John Barleycorn Must Die: the War Against Drink in Arkansas (c)

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University of Arkansas Press, 2005 - 99 頁

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Prohibition Armies March to Victory
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第 35 頁 - John he growed a long beard And so became a man. They hired men with the scythes so sharp To cut him off at the knee, They rolled him and tied him by the waist And served him most barbarously.
第 21 頁 - Til the rains from heaven did fall And little Sir John sprung up his head And so amazed them all, They let him stand til...
第 73 頁 - They hired men with the crab-tree sticks To cut him skin from bone, And the miller he served him worse than that, For he ground him between two stones. Here's little Sir John in a nut-brown bowl, And brandy in a glass; And little Sir John in the nut-brown bowl Proved the stronger man at last. And the huntsman he can't hunt the fox, Nor so loudly blow his horn, And the tinker he can't mend kettles or pots Without a little of Barleycorn.
第 1 頁 - Their fortunes for to try, And these three men made a solemn vow, John Barleycorn should die. They ploughed, they sowed, they harrowed him in, Throwed clods upon his head, And these three men made a solemn vow, John Barleycorn was dead. Then they let him lie for a very long time...
第 35 頁 - And so became a man. They hired men with the scythes so sharp to cut him off at the knee. They rolled him and tied him around the waist and served him barbarously. They hired men with the hard pitchfork to pierce him through the heart. And the loader he has served him worse than that for he bound him to a cart. They wheeled him round and around the field 'til they came unto a barn And these three men made a solemn oath on poor John Barleycorn. They hired men with the...
第 35 頁 - To pierce him through the heart; But the carter served him worse than that, For he bound him to a cart. And then they brought him to a barn, A prisoner to endure; And soon they fetched him out again And laid him on the floor. They hired men with crabtree sticks, To beat him, flesh from bones ; But a miller served him worse than that, For he ground him 'tween two stones.
第 92 頁 - David E. Kyvig, Repealing National Prohibition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), p.
第 16 頁 - They have not the same steady, sober, peaceable, persevering & enterprising character possessed by their northern brethren. . . . Drinking is their principal, I might say their only enjoyment. And O! how strong drink degrades a...

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