SCENE II
A late spring evening two years later. The Inn at Mauchline. The room is lamplit.
A number of villagers are seated round the room, drinking, being served by the landlord, and Nell, now the maid of the Inn. Burns is standing on a chair, singing, all joining in every other verse.
Burns:
There was three kings into the east,
Three kings both great and high;
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn should die.
Chorus: