Barbara Allen

Song Barbara Allen
Artist Norah Jones
Artist Billie Joe Armstrong
Album Foreverly

Lyrics

[00:12.540] Was in the merry month of May
[00:19.260] When flowers were a-blooming
[00:25.900] Sweet Willie on his deathbed lay
[00:32.050] For the love of Barbara Allen
[00:38.950] He sent his servant to the town
[00:45.160] The town where she did dwell in
[00:51.550] Saying "Master dear has sent me here
[00:58.550] If your name is Barbara Allen"
[01:05.690] Then slowly, slowly she got up
[01:10.980] And slowly she went to him
[01:17.690] And all she said when she got there
[01:23.930] "Young man, I think you're dying"
[01:30.450] "Oh don't you remember the other day
[01:36.900] When we were in the tavern?
[01:43.110] You drank your health to the ladies there
[01:49.560] And slighted Barbara Allen"
[02:08.930] He turned his face unto the wall
[02:15.210] He turned his back upon her
[02:21.620] so long farewell to all my friends
[02:28.060] Be kind to Barbara Allen"
[02:35.000] She looked to the east, she looked to the west
[02:41.020] She saw his corpse a-coming
[02:47.290] "Oh sit him down for me" she cried
[02:53.650] "That I may gaze upon him"
[03:00.530] The more she looked the more she grieved
[03:06.430] She bursting out to crying
[03:12.870] Saying "Pick me up and carry me home
[03:19.250] For I feel like I am dying"
[03:38.480] They buried Willie in the old churchyard
[03:44.530] And Barbara in the new one
[03:50.910] From Willie's grave there grew a rose
[03:57.250] From Barbara's a green briar
[04:03.870] They grew and grew to the old church wall
[04:09.910] And could not grow no higher
[04:16.130] And there they died in a true love-knot
[04:22.440] The rosebush and the briar