Barb'ry Allen chords by 
Burl Ives 
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Key: D major•
Verse 1
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Here is Barbar a Allen,
the most popular classic ballad
of the Western world.
In Scarlet Town, where I was born,
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there was a fair maid dwellin',
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made every youth cry well a day
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and her name was Barbary Al len
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was in the merry merry month of May when the green birds they were a swell
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ing sweet William on his deathbed lay for the love of Barbary Al len.
He sent his servant to the town,
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to the place where she was a -dwelling.
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Cried, master, bid you come to him,
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if your name be Barbary Allen.
Then slowly, slowly, she got up,
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and slowly, well, she nigh him.
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And when she pulled the curtains back,
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said, young man,
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I think you're a dying.
Oh, yes, I'm sick.
I'm very, very sick.
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And I never will be better
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until I have the love of one,
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the love of Barbary Adam s.
Oh, can you not, in yonder town,
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In the place where you were a -dwellin'?
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You gave a toast to the ladies all,
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But you slighted Barbary Allen.
Oh, yes, I can, I can it well,
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In the place where I was a -dwellin'.
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I gave a toast to the ladies all,
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but my love to Barbarie Allen.
Then lightly tripped she down the stairs,
he trembled like an aspen.
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Goodbye, friends, and kinfolks all,
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be kind to Barbary Allen.
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She walked out in the green,
green fields,
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she heard his death bell s nelling,
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and every stroke they seemed to say.
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Hard -hearted Barbary Allen.
Her eyes looked east,
her eyes looked west.
She saw his pale corpse coming.
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She cried, bearers,
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bearers, put him down.
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That I may look upon him.
The more she looked,
the more she grieved.
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Until she burst out crying.
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She cried, bearers, bearers, take him off.
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For I am now dying.
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Oh, father, oh, father,
go dig my grave,
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go dig it deep and narrow.
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Sweet William died for me today,
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I'll die for him tomorrow.
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They buried her in
the old churchyard.
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Sweet William's grave was nigher,
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And from his heart grew a red, rose,
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And from her heart a bri ar.
They grew and they grew
o the old church wall,
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Till they couldn't grow no higher,
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Until they tied a true lover's knot,
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The red rose and the bri ar.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD A G
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