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Barbara Allen

August 2012

https://soundcloud.com/song-collectors/freda-black-barbara-allen-18?in=song-collectors/sets/freda-black-august-2012

 

In London town where I were born

I met a fair maiden a-dwelling

I picked one up for to be my bride

and her name it were Barbara Allen

 

now mother dear, who’ll make my bed

and make it long and narrow

if my true love were to die this day

then I will die tomorrow

 

so slowly she puts on her clothes

and slowly she came a-walking

come walking through oh to my bedside

and says ‘young man, you’re dying’

 

‘now a dying man, must you say I am?

one kiss of yours it will cure me’

‘not a kiss of mine, you will never have

if your kind heart lay breaking’

 

oh mother dear, look under my bed

you’ll find a basin a-standing

that’s full of tears that I have shed this night

through the love of Barbara Allen

Allen, in the love of Barbara Allen.