Barbara Allen
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	In Scarlet town where I was born
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	there was a fair maid dwellin'
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	made every youth cry a well a day
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	her name was Barbara Allen

	'Twas in the merry month of May
	when green buds they were swellin'
	young Denny Grove on his death bed lay
	for want of Barbara Allen

	He sent his man down to the town 
	to the place where she was dwellin'
	he said me master's sick he bids me call for you
	if you be Barbara Allen

	So slowly slowly she got up 
	and slowly she went nigh him
	and all she said when there she got 
	was I think you're dyin'

	Do you remember the other night
	you're at the public house drinkin'
	you toasted healths to all the girls
	except for Barbara Allen
	
	He turned his head then toward the wall 
	and death was near him drawin'
	adieu' my friends for I must die 
	for slighting Barbara Allen

	Then later as she walked o'er the moors
	she saw his corpse train comin'
	lay down lay down his corpse she said
	that I might gaze upon him

	And the more she looked the more she wept
	until she burst out laughin''
	and all his friends who were by her said
	hard hearted Barbara Allen   

	Oh mother go and make my bed 
	and make it long and make it narrow
	for my true love has for me died today
	and I must die tomorrow

	they buried Barbara in the old churchyard
	and they buried Denny beside her
	and from his grave grew a red red rose
	and out of hers a briar

	and they grew and grew at the old churchyard
	till they could grow on no higher
	and at the top they ties a true lovers knot
	the red rose and the briar