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'T was in the merry month of May |
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When green buds were a-swellin' |
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Sweet William on his death bed lay |
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For the love of Barbriallen |
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He sent his servant to the town |
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The place where she live dwellin' |
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Say, "Master dear has sent me here |
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If your name be Barbriallen?" |
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And slowly slowly she got up |
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And 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 you're dying" |
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O don't you remember the other day |
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When we were in a tavern |
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You drank your health to the ladies there |
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And you slighted Barbriallen |
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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, adieu to all my friends |
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Be kind to Barbriallen." |
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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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"O put him down for me," she cried |
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"That I may gaze upon him." |
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The more she looked the more she grieved |
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She bursted it out in cryin' |
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"O pick me up and carry me home |
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For I feel like I am dyin'." |
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They buried Sweet Willy in the old church yard |
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And Barbara in the new one |
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From Willy's grave there grew a rose |
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From Barbara's a green briar |
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They grew and grew on the old church wall |
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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 bush and the briar |
