adore. I'm numb, I succumb When he renders the face on the barroom floor. The poem is mentioned as a screen test for Jeannie in the TV sitcom I Dream of Jeannie (season 1, episode 9). The poem is specifically referenced in the last verse of "The Mount Holyoke Drinking Song": The face upon the barroom floor I'd rather be than dull once more. We're here, Bring on the beer. Who cares, we'll be sober tomorrow. Here's a toast to old MHC! This version of the poem was also performed by the vocal group The Blazers on their album Drinking Songs Sung Under the Table released by ABC/Paramount in 1959 In the 1970 rock tour film Mad Dogs & Englishmen, starring Joe Cocker and Leon Russell, the band, family, friends, and crew have a large picnic in a field in or near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Road manager Sherman "Smitty" Jones recites the last several verses of "The Face Upon the Barroom Floor" from memory for the surprised picnickers (those shown on camera including Carl Radle, Bobby Keys, and Joe Cocker), without telling them what it is. When he is done the camera follows him off to the side of the gathering, where one woman names the poem. Smitty says, "Glad someone recognized it." (In the song Leon Russell wrote memorializing the tour, "The Ballad of Mad Dogs & Englishmen," which plays during the film credits, Russell sings, "The bus is here, bring the beer. Sherman's reading Shakespeare," though the poem is of course not by Shakespeare.) References Listen to "THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR" by THOMAS J. McCARTHY JR The Face on the Barroom Floor read by Franklyn MacCormack The Face Upon the Barroom Floor performed by storyteller Chris Abair "The Face Upon the Barroom Floor" recited in part in the film Mad Dogs & Englishmen "The Face On The Barroom Floor" Begum - 1997 External links Image of the face with text of poem 1872 poems Poems adapted into films