From Veteran CD's booklet:

Barbara Allen
Phil Tanner, The Gower Nightingale, Veteran Tapes VT145CD; ballad recorded in 1949

In Scarlet Town where I was born
There was a fair maid dwelling
Made every youth say - Well-a-day
Her name was Barbara Allen

All in the blooming month of May
When green buds they were swelling
Young Jimmy Grove on his death bed lay
For love of Barbara Allen

He sent his man down through the town
To the place where she was dwelling -
You must come to my master dear
If you be Barbara Allen

So slowly, slowly she came up
So slowly she came nigh him
And all she said when there she came:
Young man I think you're dying

A dying man, no, no - said he
One kiss from thee would cure me
One kiss from me thou never shalt have
If thy poor heart was breaking

He turned his face against the wall
As pangs of death he fell in -
Adieu, adieu, adieu to all
Adieu to Barbara Allen

When he was dead and laid in his grave
Her heart was struck with sorrow -
Oh mother, mother make my bed
I shall die tomorrow

She on her death bed as she lay
Begged to be buried by him
And so repented of that day
That she did e'er deny him

Farewell - she cried - You virgins all
And shun the fault I fell in
Hence forth take warning by the fate
Of cruel Barbara Allen