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03 Dec 05 - 02:14 PM (#1619388) Subject: Lyr Add: BARBARA ALLEN (from Vic Legg) From: Roberto Barbara Allen, sung by Vic Legg, I've come to sing you a song (Veteran). I've put question marks where I'm not sure (in the fourth stanza): please, someone to check. Thank you. R It being the Springtime of the year The flowers were freshly bloomin' A young man from my own country Fell in love with Barbara Allen This young man took sick and went to bed And called for Barbara Allen And when she came, 'twas what she said: Young man, I think you're dying I am not dying – this young man did cry One kiss from you would cure me – One kiss from me you'll never see 'Though I thought your heart was breakin' Do you remember last Sunday night Above (?) in the ballroom (?) dancin' You danced all night with the village pride (?) And you slighted Barbara Allen I do remember last Sunday night Above in the ballroom dancin' I danced all night with the village pride But I still loved Barbara Allen He rang a bell for the serving maid But she was slow in coming – There's a watch and chain in the window there Give them to Barbara Allen She had not been gone too very far When she heard the church bells tollin' And each toll that those church bells made Was: Cruel Barbara Allen! She had not been gone but a mile or two When she saw his funeral comin' – Lay down, lay down his corpse – she cried So that I may gaze upon him They laid his corpse down on the road And there she fell lamenting Oh why, oh why – a young man cried Can this be barbara Allen? She ran till she came to her father's gate And there she stopped lamenting – Oh, father, father, dig my grave And dig it deep and narrow A young man died for me today I'll die for him tomorrow They both were buried in St Mary's churchyard But she was buried higher And from her grave a red rose grew And from his grave a briar They grew till they reached the old church wall Till they could grow no higher And there they formed a true lovers' knot The red rose and the briar |
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04 Dec 05 - 01:01 PM (#1619843) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: vic legg's barbara allen From: Herga Kitty Refresh. |