‘Barleycorn, barleycorn, injun-meal shorts,

Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,’

‘Barleycorn, barleycorn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,’

and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody. Because if you speak the charm’s busted.”

“Well, that sounds like a good way; but that ain’t the way Bob Tanner done.”