Barbara Allen - Burl Ives (布勒·埃夫斯)

In Scarlet Town where I was born

There was a fair maid dwellin'

Made every youth cry well a day

And Her name was Barbara Allen

It was in the merry merry month of May

When the green buds they were swellin'

Sweet William on his death bed lay

For the love of Barbara Allen

He sent his servant to the town

To the place where she was a-dwellin'

Cried Master bids you come to him

If your name be Barbery Allen

Then slowly slowly she got up

And slowly went she nigh him

And when she pulled the curtains back

Said Young man I think you're dyin'

Oh yes I'm sick I'm very very sick

And I never will be better

Until I have the love of one

The love of Barbery Allen

Oh can you not in yonder town

In the place where you were a-dwellin'

You gave a toast to the ladies all

But you slighted Barbery Allen

Oh yes I can I can it well

In the place where I was a-dwellin'

I give a toast to the ladies all

But my love to Barb'ry Allen

Then lightly tripped she down the stairs

He trembled like an aspen

Tis vain tis vain my dear young man

To hone for Barbery Allen

She walked out in the green green fields

She heard his death bells knellin'

And every stroke they seemed to say

Hard hearted Barbery Allen

Her eyes looked east her eyes looked west

She saw his pale corpse comin'

She cried Bearers bearers put him down

That I may look upon him

The more she looked the more she grieved

Until she burst out cryin'

She cried Bearers bearers take him off

For I am now a-dyin'

Oh father oh father go dig my grave

Go dig it deep and narrow

Sweet William died for me today

I'll die for him tomorrow

They buried her in the old churchyard

Sweet William's grave was nigh her

And from his heart grew a red red rose

And from her heart a brier

They grew and they grew over the old church wall

Till they couldn't grow no higher

Until they tied a true lover's knot

The red rose and the brier