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T: Barbara Allen
B: Kidson F, 1891, Traditional Tunes, Oxford, Taphouse and Son
Z: Frank Kidson
S: Mr A. Wardill, Goathland
F: http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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w: In Read-ing Town there I was born, In Scot-land was my dwel-ling_
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w: Oh! there I court-ed a pret-ty fair maid, Her name was Bar-bara Al-len;_
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w: Oh there I court-ed a pret-ty fair maid, Her name was Bar-bara Al-len *
W: In Reading town, there I was born,
W: In Scotland was my dwelling;
W: O, there I courted a pretty fair maid -
W: Her name was Barbara Allen.
W: 
W: I courted her for months and years,
W: Thinking that I should gain her;
W: And I oft times vowed and did declare
W: No other man should have her.
W: 
W: I sent a man to yonder town,
W: To ask for Barbara Allen.
W: Saying "You must come to my master's house,
W: If your name be Barbara Allen."
W: 
W: So slowly she put on her clothes,
W: So slowly she came to him;
W: And when she got to his bedside,
W: "Young man," she said, "You're dying."
W: 
W: . . . . . . . . . .
W: 
W: If you look under my pillow
W: You'll find a napkin lying,
W: And it is soaked with my heart's blood,
W: For the love of Barbara Allen.
W: 
W: He put his hand right out of bed,
W: Thinking to draw her nigh him;
W: But she whipped her heels and away she ran,
W: Straightway from him she flew.
W: 
W: So he turned his face unto the wall,
W: And death came slowly to him;
W: "Adieu, adieu to all my frends,
W: Farewell to Barbara Allen."
W: 
W: As she was walking across yon fields
W: She heard his death-bell tolling
W: And every toll it seemed to say -
W: Hard-hearted Barbara Allen.
W: 
W: "O dear mother, make my bed,
W: And make it fit to die on;
W: There's a young man died for me to-day
W: And I'll die for him to-morrow."
W: 
W: And he did die on one good day,
W: And she did die on the morrow;
W: O, he did die for the love of her,
W: And she did die for sorrow.
W: