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Thread #87842 Message #1643396
Posted By: Roberto
07-Jan-06 - 11:11 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Barbry Allen (from Steve Tilston)
Subject: Lyr Req: steve tilston's barbry allen
Barbry Allen sung by Steve Tilston on Of Many hands (2005). If put a question mark where I'm not sure, and there are a couple of words I can't get at all, for the music covers them. Please, help. Thanks a susual. R
'Twas early, early in the spring When green buds they were swellin' Young William on his death bed lay For love of Barbry Allen
He sent his servant round (?) the town To the place where she was dwellin' Sayin' – Rise, O rise, and go with me If your name be Barbry Allen
So slowly, slowly she got up And slowly drew she nigh him Whisperin' softly in his ear: Young man, I think you're dyin'
O, a dying man, that's what I am One kiss from you would cure me - Ah, one kiss from me you ne'er shall have For choosin' to ignore (?) me
Do you remember ...(???) All drinking in the tavern You drank a health to all the girls around But none to Barbry Allen
Then slowly, slowly she got up Without a glance diparted He turned his face unto the wall He died out (?) broke-hearted
As she was on the high road home (?) The small birds they were singing They sang so clear, they seemed to say: Here comes cruel Barbry Allen
She'd scarcely gone a mile but one She heard the death-bell knelling At every tone the bells did say: Hard-hearted Barbry Allen
She'd scarcely gone a mile but two She saw his coffin comin' She begged the bearers to lay him down That she might look upon him
O mother, mother, make my bed Go make it long and narrow Sweet William died for me today I'll die for him tomorrow
They laid her in the old church-yard And he was buried nigh her Out of his grave grew a red, red rose Out of hers grew a briar
They grew unto the steeple top Till they could grow no higher And there they twined in a true lover's know For lovers to admire