A traditional Scottish song, it tells how some local neighbors got together to hire some ruffians to kill  the title characte
A traditional Scottish song, it tells how some local neighbors got together to hire some ruffians to kill  the title character. Although they "plough him with ploughs and bury him", and "combed him with  harrows and thrust clods on his head", they were not successful, and the title knight forgave everyone.  The title was later taken by Jack London for his 1913 autobiography, which he described as his ‘alcoholic  memoirs'. For ten points name this song which was written down by Robert Burns.
A traditional Scottish song, it tells how some local neighbors got together to hire some ruffians to kill  the title character.
Sir John Barleycorn