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Doris Day
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All in the merry month of May
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When the green buds they were swelling,
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William Green on his death-bed lay
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For the love of Barbara Allen.
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He sent his servant to the town
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To the place where she was dwelling
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Saying "Love, there is a call for you
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If your name is Barbara Allen."
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She was very slowly getting up
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And very slowly going,
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The only words she said to him
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Were "Young man I think you're dying."
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"Don't you remember the other day
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When you were in town a-drinking,
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You drank a health to the ladies all around
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And slighted Barbara Allen?"
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"O yes, I remember the other day
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When I was in town a-drinking,
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I drank a health to the ladies all around,
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But my love to Barbara Allen."
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He turned his pale face to the wall
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And death was in him dwelling;
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"Adieu, adieu, to my friends all,
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Be kind to Barbara Allen."
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When she got in two miles of town
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She heard the death bells ringing:
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They rang so clear, as if to say
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"Hard-hearted Barbara Allen!"
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So she looked east and she looked west
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And saw the cold corpse coming,
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She says "Come round you nice young man
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And let me look upon you."
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The more she looked the more she grieved
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Until she burst out crying
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"Perhaps I could have saved that young man's life
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Who now is here a-lying."
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"O Mother, O Mother, come make my bed
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O make it both soft and narrow,
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For sweet William died to-day
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And I will die to-morrow."
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"O Father, O Father, come dig my grave
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O dig it deep and narrow,
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For sweet William died in love
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And I will die in sorrow."
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Sweet William was buried in the old church tomb,
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Barbara Allen was buried in the yard;
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Out of William's heart grew a red rose,
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Out of Barbara Allen's grew a brier.
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They grew and grew to the old church tower
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And they could not grow any higher;
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And at the end tied a true lover's knot
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And the rose wrapped around the brier.
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