Key: A major
Verse 1
G
In
Scarlet
Town, where I was born,
C
D
There was a fair maid dwelling,
C
G
Made every youth cry well a day,
Barbary
All in the merry month of
May,
D
C
Young
For the love of
Barbara
Allen.
And death is printed on his face,
C
D
And to his heart is stealing,
C
G
Then haste away to comfort him,
Then slowly, slowly she got up,
C
D
And slowly came she nigh him,
C
G
An d all she said, when she got there,
D
Em
G
Young man, I think you're dying.
C
G
Oh, yes, I'm sick, I'm very sick,
C
D
And grief is in me dwelling.
C
G
Oh, lay your hand upon my heart,
My lovely
C
G
He turned his face toward the wall,
C
D
For death was in him dwellin'.
C
G
Good -bye, good -bye, my dear friends all,
Em
G
Barbara
Ellen.
D
G
As she was walking towards her home,
G
C
G
And every stroke it seemed to say,
A
D
Cold -hearted
A
D
Barbara
O
Mother,
D
G
Mother, make my bed,
C
D
O make it long and narrow.
Young
C
G
William died for me today,
D
Em
G
I'll die for him tomorrow.
O
Father,
D
G
Father, dig my grave,
C
D
O dig it long and narrow.
Sweet
C
G
William died for love of me,
D
G
And I will die for sorrow.
D
G
They buried her in the old churchyard,
Young
C
D
William's grave was my hearth,
C
G
And from his grave grew a red, rose,
D
Em
G
And from her grave a briar.
D
G
They grew and grew to the steeper top,
C
D
Till they could grow no higher,
C
G
An d there they tied a true lover's knot,
D
E
G
The red rose and the briar.
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