Roberto, sounds right to me except Rush sings 'Allen' not 'Ellen' and that is on the sleeve too. I think he intends to sing 'And many a lad cried' in line 3, but omits 'a'. He also drops final consonants to rhyme with 'Allen': 'dwellin'', 'swellin'', 'dealin'', 'knellin'' etc.


Now her younger sister, she came to her
She said – Bonny Barb'y, take him!
O, it's time enough to tell me now
When his head-stone they're a-makin'

And her older sister, she came to her
She said – Bonny Barb'y, take him!
O, it's time enough to tell me now
When his grave clothes they're a-makin'


For some reason - possibly to suggest sibling familiarity - in these 2 stanzas only, he seems to drop the 'r' out of Barb'ry, to sound like 'Barb'y' He seems to put an 'a' in elsewhere too - for example, 'death bell a-knellin''.

--Stewie.