Barbry Allen- Williams (NC) 1945 Abrams REC
[No original informant named. From Amos Abrams Collection: “Barbara Allen, performed by Dr. Cratis Williams,” Appalachian State University Digital Collections.
The version is in a florid style, minor mode. The first part of the recording is very difficult to understand. Only one stanza has been transcribed for now.
R. Mateson 2015]
Barbary Allen- sung by Dr. Cratis Williams, October 26, 1945, NC.
Listen: http://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/0f280d20e4d3d2658db5e1df2e64e8d1.mp3
Oh yes I'm sick and very sick,
and death is with me dealing,
No better no better I never shall be,
If I can't get Barbry Allen.