[ti:Barbara Allen]
[ar:Various]
[al:A Celtic Christmas - Peace On Earth]
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[00:00.00]Barbara Allen - Triona Ní Dhomhnaill/Maighread Ni Dhomhnaill
[00:12.09]All Christmas comes but once a year
[00:19.25]And the green leaves they are fallen
[00:25.88]Young Edmund on his pillow lay
[00:33.02]
[00:33.62]For love of Barbara Allen
[00:39.56]
[00:40.06]He sent his servants out one day
[00:46.69]
[00:47.22]To the place where she was dwelling
[00:53.49]My master wants one word with you
[01:00.92]If your name be Barbara Allen
[01:06.99]One word from me he never will get
[01:14.61]Nor any young man breathing
[01:20.57]One word from me he never will get
[01:28.07]If his heart was fairly breaking
[01:34.37]
[01:40.05]So slowly slowly she got up
[01:47.75]And slowly she puts on her
[01:53.46]
[01:54.01]And slowly to his bedside
[02:01.64]Saying "Young man you are dying"
[02:07.40]
[02:07.91]I'm lying low and very very ill
[02:15.32]And the grave shall be my dwelling
[02:21.37]One kiss from you would cure me now
[02:28.90]My bonny Barbara Allen
[02:34.60]
[02:35.29]One kiss from me you never will get
[02:42.70]Nor any young man breathing
[02:48.81]One kiss from me you never will get
[02:56.51]If your heart was fairly breaking
[03:02.76]Look up look up at my bed head
[03:10.22]And there you will see it hanging
[03:16.48]My gold watch and my silver chain
[03:23.94]Bestow to Barbara Allen
[03:29.91]
[03:42.17]He turned his pale face to the wall
[03:49.10]
[03:49.81]And death came to him creeping
[03:55.92]Farewell farewell to my friends all
[04:03.58]And be kind to Barbara Allen
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[04:10.22]She looked east and she looked west
[04:17.24]And she heard the small birds singing
[04:23.36]They sang so sweet and seemed to say
[04:31.03]Hard-hearted Barbara Allen
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[04:37.50]Oh mother oh mother go dig my grave
[04:44.64]Go dig it long and narrow
[04:50.79]My young man died for me today
[04:58.50]And for him I'll die tomorrow
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[05:17.36]One was buried in St Mary's churchyard
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[05:25.08]The other in St Peter's
[05:31.53]Out of her grave there grew a red rose
[05:39.16]And out of his a briar
[05:46.14]They grew so high so very very high
[05:54.90]
[05:55.51]'Til they could go no higher
[06:02.64]They met at the top in a true lover's knot
[06:13.02]And it's there they'll remain forever