Barbara Allen

from Don't You Preach To Me by Songs Of Dave

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lyrics

In Scarlet town where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin'
Made every youth cry Well-a-way,
Her name was Barbara Allen

All in the merry month of May,
When green buds are a swellin'
Young William Grove on his death-bed lay,
For love of Barbara Allen

He sent his squire unto the town
The place where she was dwellin'
Haste ye come to my master's call
The lass who's Barbara Allen

At last appear she at the door
At last to where he's lying,
But all she says to sweet William's tears
Young man, I fear you dying

He turned his eyes unto the wall
As death to him was calling
Goodbye, Goodbye to my dear friends all
Adieu to Barbara Allen

And so he died and lay to grave,
Soft sounded death bell knelling
But every toll, it did seem to say
Oh cruel Barbara Allen

Oh father dear please dig a grave
And make it deep and narrow
Sweet William died for the love of me
And now my heart must follow

The month of June they bury her
Sweet William's grave beside her
And from one heart grew a red red rose
The other grows a briar

Say somewhere hides an old church yard
With graves unkempt belying
Where still they twine as in loves embrace
A red rose and a briar

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from Don't You Preach To Me, released April 11, 2010

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David's songs are generally confessional or observational in nature, sometimes comedic or ironic, mostly of philosophical or theosophical subject-matter ... often in the form of imagined dialogue with God.

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