Barbara Allen

Lyrics

[Verse 1] [?] in the year When the green leaves they were fallin' Young Jimmy Crow from the north country Fell in love with Barbara Allen [Verse 2] He sent his servants out one day To see if she was comin' One word from you will bring me to If you are Barbara Allen [Verse 3] Get up, get up, her mother said Get up and go and see him Oh, ma my dear, do you not mind the time When you showed me how to shun him [Verse 4] Get up, get up, her father said Get up and go and see him Oh, dad a'dear, do you not mind the time When you showed me how to slight him [Verse 5] Slowly, slowly she got up And slowly she put on her And slowly went to his bedside And there caught lookin' on him [Verse 6] "You're lyin' low, young man", says she "You're almost near a-dyin'." "One word from you will bring me to If you are Barbara Allen." [Verse 7] "Look at my bedside" he said "And there you'll find it tickin' My gold chain and my gold watch That I sweat for Barbara Alan" [Verse 8] "Look at my bed foot", he said "You'll find the basin standing A basin of blood, for my heart has bled And I bled for Barbara Allan" [Verse 9] "One word from me you will never get Nor any young man breathin' For the better of me you will never be If your heart's blood was a-spillin'." [Verse 10] She went into her father's green She heard the dead-bell ringin' And every chop that the dead-bell gave It was "Woe to Barbara Allen!" [Verse 11] She went into her father's green And heard the corpse a'comin "Oh lift the lid up off the corpse And let me look upon him" [Verse 12] They lifted up the lid up off of the corpse She bursted out with laughin' And all of his wearied friends did cry "Oh hard hearted Barbara Allen!" [Verse 13] Back inside her father's green "Make my bed long and narrow For the dead-bell did ring for my true love today It'll ring for me tomorrow." [Verse 14] Out of one grave there grew a red rose And out of the other a briar And there grew into a true lover's knot And there remained forever