Barbara Allen - Colin Meloy video free download

Barbara Allen sung by Colin Meloy from the Colin Meloy Sings Shirley Collins album.

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Lyrics:

It was round and about last Martinmas tide

When the green leaves were swellin'

That young Jimmy Grove of the West Country

Fell in love with Barb'ry Allen

He sent his men into the town

To the place where she was dwellin'

"Oh will you come to my master, dear,

If your name be Barb'ry Allen?"

And slowly, slowly got she up

And slowly came she nigh him

And all she said when there she came

"Young man, I think you're dyin'"

"Oh, yes, I'm sick, I'm very sick

Indeed I think I'm dyin'

But a word from you would revive me again

Oh lovely Barb'ry Allen"

"Do you recall, young man," she said,

"When the red wine you were spillin',

How you made the ladies' health go round

And you slighted Barb'ry Allen?"

And death is printed on his face

And all his heart is stealin'

And again he cried as she left his side

"Hard-hearted Barb'ry Allen!"

As she was goin' over the field

She heard the death bells tollin'

And every sound that death bell gave:

"Hard-hearted Barb'ry Allen!"

"Oh mother, mother make me a bed

Oh make it soft and narrow

Since Jimmy died for me today

I'll die for him tomorrow"