Barb'ra Allen- Clark (ON) c1943 Fowke REC
[My date. From: A Family Heritage: The Story and Songs of LaRena Clark by Edith Fowke, Jay Rahn, LaRena LeBarr Clark; 1994. her version is similar to The American Aongbag version Carl Sandburg, 1927 from Gordon.
LaRena (LeBarr) Clark. was born near Lake Simcoe, Ontario, of French and English-Irish parents on 21 Nov. 1904, and died Orilla, Ont, 3 May 1991.
R. Matteson 2015]
Bar'bra Allen- LaRena (LeBarr) Clark, Ontario
1. In London city where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwelling,
And she had every youthful grace;
Her name was Barb'ra Allen.
2. "I courted her for four long years;
She swore she would not have me.
Then straightway home as I could go,
And like unto a-dying.”
3. 'Twas in the early month of June
When flowers they were blooming,
Sweet William on his deathbed lay
For love of Barb'ra Allen.
4 He wrote a letter to his sweetheart,
He wrote it slow and moving,
Saying, "Take this letter to my true love
That she may look upon it."
5 Oh, when she looked the letter upon, Oh,
she was greatly troubled,
And when she read the letter through,
The tears blinded her eyes.
Slowly, slowly she arose,
And then she came a-nigh him.
”You're sick, you're sick, you're very sick;
You're
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