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