[00:05.00]'Twas in the merry month of May
[00:12.00]When green buds all were swellin'
[00:17.00]Sweet William on his death bed lay
[00:23.00]For love of Barbara Allen
[00:33.00]He sent his servant to the town
[00:39.00]To the place where she was dwellin'
[00:44.00]Saying, "You must come to my master, dear
[00:51.00]If your name be Barbara Allen"
[01:00.00]So slowly, slowly she got up
[01:06.00]And slowly she drew nigh him
[01:11.00]And the only words to him did say
[01:18.00]"Young man, I think you are dying"
[01:28.00]He turned his face unto the wall
[01:34.00]And death was in him wellin'
[01:39.00]"Goodbye, goodbye to my friends all
[01:46.00]Be good to Barbara Allen"
[01:55.00]When he was dead and laid in grave
[02:01.00]She heard the death bells knellin'
[02:06.00]And every stroke to her did say
[02:13.00]"Hard-hearted Barbara Allen"
[02:22.00]"Oh mother, oh, mother, go dig my grave
[02:29.00]Make it both long and narrow
[02:33.00]Sweet William died of love for me
[02:41.00]And I will die of sorrow"
[02:46.00]"And father, oh father, go dig my grave
[02:53.00]Make it both long and narrow
[02:58.00]Sweet William died on yesterday
[03:06.00]And I will die tomorrow"
[03:13.00]Barbara Allen was buried in the old churchyard
[03:20.00]Sweet William was buried beside her
[03:25.00]Out of sweet William's heart there grew a rose
[03:32.00]Out of Barbara Allen's, a briar
[03:40.00]They grew and grew in the old churchyard
[03:47.00]Till they could grow no higher
[03:53.00]At the end they formed a true lover's knot
[04:00.00]And the rose grew 'round the briar