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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
[Verse 2]
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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"
[Verse 3]
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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'"
[Verse 4]
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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.
[Verse 5]
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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."
[Verse 6]
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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".
[Verse 7]
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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'."
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 8]
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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.
[Verse 9]
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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.
