"John Barleycorn" is a British folk song (Roud 164). English folk song figure John Barleycorn. There is little information about the early years of Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber. In his memoir, "John Barleycorn", he claims also to have stolen French Frank's mistress Mamie. He helped John Barleycorn and Arrow retrieve the jar and joined Fabletown. According to Frazer, the sacred king represented the spirit of vegetation, a divine John Barleycorn. Their set ends with Hanly singing "John Barleycorn" and "The Verdant Braes of Skreen". The formal barleycorn was of its length. For example, an inch could be defined in terms of a barleycorn. In his autobiographical novel, "John Barleycorn," London mentioned the pub's likeness seventeen times. An Anglo-Saxon unit of length was the barleycorn. However, it redefined the yard, foot, inch, and barleycorn to of their previous value. Traffic were working on "John Barleycorn Must Die" at Island Studios at the same time. The Barleycorn Inn is a 17th-century oak beamed building. The title is taken from the British folksong "John Barleycorn".