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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
He sent his servant to the town
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The town where she did dwell in
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Saying master dear has sent me here
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If your name be Barbara Allen
Then 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
Oh don't you remember the other day
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When we were in the tavern
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You drank your health to the ladies there
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And you slighted Barbara Allen
He turned his face unto 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 Barbara Allen
She looked to the east she looked to the west
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She saw his corpse a-comin'
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Oh sit him down for me she cried
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That I may gaze upon him
The more she looked the more she grieved
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She busted out to cryin'
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Sayin' pick me up and carry me home
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For I feel like I am dyin'
They buried Willie in the old churchyard
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And Barbara in the new one
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From Willie's grave there grew a rose
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From Barbara's a green brier
They grew and grew to the old church wall
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And could not grow no higher
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And there they died in a true love-knot
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The rosebush and the brier