C
Twas in the merry month of May
F
C
When flowers were a bloomin’
F
C
Am
Sweet Willie on his deathbed lay
C
G7
C
For the love of Barbara Allen
F
C
The town where she did dwell in
F
C
Am
Saying master dear has sent me here
C
G7
C
If your name be Barbara Allen
F
C
And slowly she went to him
F
C
Am
And all she said when she got there
C
G7
C
Young man I think you’re dying
F
C
When we were in the tavern
F
C
Am
You drank your health to the ladies there
C
G7
C
And you slighted Barbara Allen
F
C
He turned his back upon her
F
C
Am
Adieu adieu to all my friends
C
G7
C
Be kind to Barbara Allen
F
C
She saw his corpse a-comin’
F
C
Am
Oh sit him down for me she cried
C
G7
C
That I may gaze upon him
F
C
She busted out to cryin’
F
C
Am
Sayin’ pick me up and carry me home
C
G7
C
For I feel like I am dyin’
F
C
And Barbara in the new one
F
C
Am
From Willie’s grave there grew a rose
C
G7
C
From Barbara’s a green brier
F
C
And could not grow no higher
F
C
Am
And there they died in a true love-knot
C
G7
C
The rosebush and the brier
G7
Am
C
F
