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Verse 1
(E minor) (G major) (E minor) (G major) Twas (E minor) round and about last
(Asus4) Mai (D major) in the (E minor) (B major) (side?)
When the (A minor) green (D major) leaves (E minor) were swellin?
That Young Jimmy Grove (D major) of
the West Coun (B major) try
Fell in (A minor) love with (D major) (E minor) Barbrie Allen
He (G major) sent his (D major) men in
Verse 2
(G major) to the (E minor) town
To the (G major) place where (D major) she was (C major) dwellin?
Oh (G major) will ye come (D major) to my (G major) mas (E minor) ter, dear
If ye (G major) name be (E minor) Barbrie Allen
(G major) (E minor)
Verse 3
(G major)
(E minor) Then slowly, slowly (D major) got she (E minor) up (B major)
(E minor) And (A minor) slowly came (Asus4) she (E minor) nigh him;
And all she said when (D major) e'er she (E minor) came,
(B major)
?Young (A minor) man I think (D major) you?re (E minor) dy in?.?
Oh, (G major) yes I?m (D major) sick, I?m
Verse 4
(G major) very (E minor) sick
In (G major) deed I think (A minor) I'm (E minor) dy in' (C major)
But a (G major) word from (D major) you will re (G major) vive me (E minor) again
Oh (G major) lovely (E minor) Barbrie Allen
(G major) (E minor)
Verse 5
(G major) "Do (E minor) you recall,
young (D major) man," she (E minor) said, (B major)
"When the (A minor) red wine you
(E minor) were spillin'?
How you made the (D major)
(Asus4) ladies' health(?) go (E minor) 'round (B major)
(E minor) And (A minor) you slighted (E minor) Barbrie Allen?"
And (G major) death was (D major) printed
Verse 6
(G major) on his (E minor) face
And (G major) all his (D major) (G major) heart(?) was stealin' (C major)
And (G major) he (D major) cried when she (G major) left (E minor) his side,
"Hard-hearted (G major) Barbrie
Al (E minor) len!"
(G major) (E minor)
Verse 7
(G major)
(E minor) She was going (D major) over the (B major) field
She (A minor) heard the (D major) death bell (E minor) tollin'
And every sound the (D major) death
bell (B major) gave---
"Hard-hearted (A minor) Barbrie (D major) (E minor) Allen!"
Oh (G major) mother, (D major) mother
Verse 8
(G major) make me a (E minor) bed
Oh (G major) make it soft and narrow (C major)
Since (G major) Jimmy (D major) died (G major) for me today (E minor)
I'll (G major) die for him to (E minor) morrow.
Outro 1
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Barbara Allen
Colin Meloy
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