John Barleycorn, Nicotine, and the Temptations of Eve

Help me out, people.... as soon as I heard the open of this video by Red Ingle referring to "John Barleycorn, nicotine, and the Temptations of Eve" I thought, oh yeah, the start of Ed Sanders' The Iliad ....but NO! Now I can't recall where else I've heard that phrase from. Can anyone else remember?