Barbaree Allen- Meade (TX-CA) 1939 Cowell REC; Bronson 58.
[My title. From Library of Congress recording AFS 3343 A1.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/afc/afccc/audio/a334/a3343a1.mp3
Virginia Meade performing Anglo-American ballads, June 3, 1939; Incomplete version of Barbara Allen on AFS 3343 A1. Additional verses on AFS 3342 A2. Sidney Robertson Cowell, collector.
R. Matteson 2015]
[Barbaree Allen]- Sung by Mrs. Virginia Meade, of Paris, Tex., in Hollywood, Calif., June 3, 1939. LC/AAFS, rec. No. 3343 (A1,A2). Collected by Sidney Robertson.
1. One morning in the month of May
When all green trees were blooming
A young man on his deathbed lay -
For the love of Barbaree Allen.
2. He sent a servant in great haste
To the place where she was aboding
Saying, "My master is sick and says you must come
If your name be Barbare Allen."
3. Slowly, slowly she rose up
And slowly she went to him
And slowly she pulled the curtains aside
Saying, "This is Barbaree Allen."
4. "Oh, don't you remember last Christmas night,
When we were at the tavern
You drank their health to the ladies all
And slighted Barbaree Allen."
5. "Oh yes, I remember last Christmas night
When we were at the tavern
I drank their health to the ladies all
But loved my Barbaree Allen."
6. "Oh mother, mother, go make my bed
Go make it long and narrow -
Sweet William died for me today
I'll die for him tomorrow."