"Barbara Allen" lyrics
[?] in the year
When the green leaves they were fallin'
Young Jimmy Crow from the north country
Fell in love with Barbara Allen
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
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
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
Slowly, slowly she got up
And slowly she put on her
And slowly went to his bedside
And there caught lookin' on him
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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'"
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!"
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"
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!"
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"
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
When the green leaves they were fallin'
Young Jimmy Crow from the north country
Fell in love with Barbara Allen
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
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
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
Slowly, slowly she got up
And slowly she put on her
And slowly went to his bedside
And there caught lookin' on him
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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'"
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!"
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"
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!"
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"
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
