← English traditional tunesSCORES & PLAYBACK
John Barleycorn
English folk song · 2/4 · C major · Suggested tempo: 1/4 = 84 BPM
The vocal melody of the traditional song, taken from the C-major strain of Holst's 1909 setting.
The source melody is shown with a simple left-hand bass and chord accompaniment created for this site, for piano or chromatic button accordion.
Transpose Chord symbols are suggested by fisarmonica.org and are not part of the source score.
Source: Traditional, John Barleycorn; Gustav Holst, Folk-Songs from Hampshire (1909); public-domain Mutopia edition. Mutopia public-domain score
Source and playback
Only the public-domain vocal melody is used. The repeated transposed strain is represented once; bass and chords are new.