Michael Hurley – Barbara Allen (Guitar)

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Twas in the merry month of May

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When flowers were a-bloomin'

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Sweet Willie on his deathbed lay

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For the love of Barbara Allen

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He sent his servant to the town,

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The town where she be dwellin'.

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Sayin', "Master, dear, has sent me here

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If your name be Barbara Allen"

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Slowly, slowly, she got up

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Slowly she went to him.

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And all she said, when she got there,

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"Young man, I think your dyin'"

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Don't you remember the other day

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When we were in the tavern.

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You drank a fifth to the ladies there,

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And he slighted Barbara Allen.

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He turned his face onto the wall,

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He turned his back upon her.

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"Adieu Adieui to all my friends,

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be kind to Barbara Allen."

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She looked to the east she looked to the west

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She saw his corpse a-comin'.

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"Sit him down with me", she cried

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"That I may gaze upon him".

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The more she looked the more she greived,

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she bursted out a-cyin'

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"Pick me up and carry me home,

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I feel like I am dyin'."

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They buried Willie in the old churchyard,

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And Barbara in the new one.

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For WIllie's grave there grew a rose,

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From Barbara's a green briar.

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They grew and they grew to the old churchyard,

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And could not grow no higher.

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And there they tied in a true love's knot,

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The rose brush and the briar.