Barbara Allan- Ockerman (IO) pre1936 Stout B
[No date given. From Folklore from Iowa, collected and edited by Earl J. Stout, 1936 p. 8. This single stanza fragment without music is the second and last version - B - given by Stout.
R. Matteson 2015]
Barbara Allan- Sung by Mrs. D. F. Ockerman, Allertown, IO. Learned in her youth.
In Scarlet town, where I was born,
A maid there was a- dwelling,
Made every youth cry, "well away,"
Her name was Barbara Allan.