Barbara Allen- (GA) 1916 Rawn/Peabody
[No informant named. Single stanza of text from More Songs and Ballads from the Southern Appalachians by Isabel Nanton Rawn and Charles Peabody Source: The Journal of American Folklore,Vol. 29, No. 112 (Apr. - Jun., 1916), pp. 198-202.
Sharps EFSSA gives three versions from Georgia and I believe they were are collected by Rawn and supplied probably to Campbell. Peabody's note follow.
R. Matteson 2015]
[FROM a collection of songs and ballads sent me by Miss Isabel Nanton Rawn of Mount Berry, Georgia, I have selected the following for publication now. They seem in large measure not to have been published before. I have added a very few notes.
The songs I-V were secured by Miss Rawn from Ethel Edward; Nos. VI and VII, from Roxie Gay. The references to Child are to the Riverside Press edition of 1000 copies. In the remainder of the collection are interesting versions of "The Old Rich Merchant," "Lord Randall," and "Barbara Allen," with striking variant readings; e.g., the account of the slight of Barbara
Allen is thus given:
"Oh! don't you remember the other day,
When we were at the station,
You passed your hands to the ladies all around,
And slighted Barbara Allen."
-C. P.]