Recordings & Info 84. Bonny Barbara Allen
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Folk Index
4) Child Collection Index
5) Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America
6) Wiki
7) Mainly Norfolk (lyrics and info)
8) Bruce Olsen
9) Excerpt from: The Forget-Me-Not Songsters and Their Role in the American Folksong Tradition by Norm Cohen
10) Library of Congress listings
11) Second Hand Songs (List of popular recordings)
12) Check-list from Tennessee
--plus texts from Bronson
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 54 Bonny Barbara Allen (1169 Listings)
2) Moses Platt and the Regeneration of Barbara Allen
3) Barbara Allen: Tonal Vs. Melodic Structure, Part I
4) Barbara Allen: Tonal Vs. Melodic Structure, Part 2
5) A Near Eastern Parallel to "Barbara Allen"
6) A Serbian Parallel to "Barbara Allen"
7) Versions & Variants of the Tunes of "Barbara Allen" Seeger
8) Brown Collection- Bonny Barbara Allen (Complete)
9) Folk-Songs of the South: Bonny Barbara Allen- Cox
Alternative Titles
Barbara Ellen
Barbara Allan
Barbary Allen
Barb'ra Allen (All contractions including Barb'ry)
Ballet of Barbara Allen
Bonnie Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen (both names with many variants)
Barbara Allen's Cruelty
Barbarous Ellen
Edelin
Hard-hearted Barbery Ellen,
(The Sad Ballet of) Little Johnnie Green
Sir John Graham
The Love of Barbara Allen
Traditional Ballad Index: Bonny Barbara Allan [Child 84]
DESCRIPTION: A knight lies dying for love of Barbara Allan. His servant summons her, but she scorns him. As she returns home, she hears the death-bell, repents, and in turn dies. Buried close together, a briar grows from her grave, a rose from his; they entwine
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1740 (Tea-Table Miscellany; mentioned by Pepys in 1666)
KEYWORDS: love hardheartedness death flowers
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord,Hebr),England(All)) US(All) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont,West) Ireland
REFERENCES (71 citations):
Child 84, "Bonny Barbara Allan" (3 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #79}
Bronson 84, "Bonny Barbara Allan" (198 versions+2 in addenda)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 195-200, "Barbara Allen" (3 texts plus 1 fragment, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #15, #188}
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 128-130, "Barbara Allen's Cruelty"; pp. 133-135, "Sir John Grehme and Barbara Allen" (2 texts)
Belden, pp. 60-65, "Barbara Allen" (1 full text+3 fragments, 4 tunes, plus references to 11 other versions) {G=Bronson's #55, K=#159, M=#158, N=#181}
Randolph 21, "Barbara Allen" (11 texts plus 4 fragments, 6 tunes) {A=Bronson's #114, B=#135, E=#172, J=#163, M=#119, N=#162}
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 41-44, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 21M) {Bronson's #119}
Eddy 16, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (4 texts plus 2 fragments (the fragments might be any rose-and-briar song); 4 tunes) {Bronson's #191, #53, #22, #160}
Gardner/Chickering 8, "Barbara Allen" (1 text plus an excerpt and mention of 1 more; 1 tune) {Bronson's #187}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 197-200, "Mary Alling" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders-Ancient2, pp. 246-292, "Barbara Allen" (16 texts plus 9 fragments, 13 tunes -- some of the items rather oddly related, e.g. H1, H2, H3 are said to derive from the same informant but the melodies of H2 and H3 differ)
Linscott, pp. 163-164, "Barb'ry Ellen or Barbara Allen" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Davis-Ballads 24, "Bonny Barbara Allan" (28 texts plus 4 fragments, 12 tunes, all entitled "Barbara Allen"; 56? more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #89, #101, #102, #189, #169, #75, #182, [#s, unprinted], [#t, unprinted], #141, #171, #184}
Davis-More 25, pp. 182-198, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (7 texts plus a fragment, 8 tunes)
BrownII 27, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (9 texts plus 10 excerpts and citations of 12 more)
Chappell-FSRA 13, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (1 short text)
Hudson 15, pp. 95-107, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (6 texts plus 7 excerpts and mention of 3 more)
Fuson, pp. 47-48, "Barbara Allen" (1 text)
Cambiaire, pp. 66-68, "Barbara Allen" (1 text)
MHenry-Appalachians, p. 248, "Barbara Ellen" (1 fragment)
Boswell/Wolfe 5, pp. 11-13, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rosenbaum, p. 72, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 83-96, collectively titled "Bonny Barbara Allen"; individual versions are "The Ballet of Barbara Allan," "Barbry Ellen," "Barbara Allen," (no title), "Barbare Allen," (no title), "Barbara Ellen," "Barbara Ellen," "Barbarie Allen" (9 texts; 5 tunes on pp. 386-388) {Bronson's #183, #107, #180, #168, #118}
Scarborough-NegroFS, pp. 59-60, (no title; the song uses the name "Bob-ree Allin") (1 text)
Brewster 15, "Barbara Allen" (12 texts plus a fragment and mention of 1 more, 1 tune) {Bronson's #150}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 49-58, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (6 texts plus 1 fragment, 4 tunes) {Bronson's #85, #36, #37, #38}
Creighton-Maritime, pp. 13-14, "Bonny Barbara Allan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenleaf/Mansfield 12, "Barbree Ellen" (1 text)
Peacock, pp. 649-661, "Barbara Allen" (4 texts, 6 tunes)
Mackenzie 9, "Barbara Allan" (1 text); "Barbara Ellan" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #18}
Fowke-Ontario 22, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 277-280, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (3 texts)
Wyman-Brockway I, p. 1, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #151}
Friedman, p. 88, "Barbara Allen" (3 texts, 1 tune)
OBB 158, "Barbara Allen's Cruelty" (1 text)
Warner 40, "Barbara Allen"; 187, "Barbara Allen" (2 texts, 2 tunes; the first tune is in 5/4 and seems to be the only American instance of this metre, commonly found in British tunes in Bronson's "A" group)
PBB 59, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (1 text)
McNeil-SFB1, pp. 102-105, "Barb'ry Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
SharpAp 24 "Barbara Allen" (7 texts plus 6 fragments, 16 tunes){Bronson's #88, #116, #136, #76, #176, #152, #178, #184, #106, #121, #110, #48, #49, #78, #111, #137}
Sharp-100E 7, "Barbara Ellen" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #1}
Niles 36, "Bonny Barbara Allan" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 19, "Barbara Ellen" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #49}
Sandburg, p. 57, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #35}
Scott-BoA, pp. 7-8, "Bawbee Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 278-279, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FSNA 89, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune, probably composite as no source it listed)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 169-171," [Barbry Ellen]" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #142}
Ritchie-Southern, p. 73, "Barbry Ellen" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #142}
Greig #165, p. 1, "Barbara Allan"; Greig #166, p. 1, "Bawbie Allan"; Greig #173, p. 2, "Barbara Allan" (3 texts plus 1 fragment)
GreigDuncan6 1193, "Barbara Allan" (7 texts, 5 tunes) {a=Bronson's #43, b=#127, c=#128, d=#44, e=#42}
Ord, pp. 476-477, "Barbara Allan" (1 text)
Williams-Thames, pp. 204-207, "Barbara Allen" (2 texts) (also Wiltshire-WSRO Wt 388; Wiltshire-WSRO Ox 205); Wiltshire-WSRO Gl 155, "Barbara Allen" (1 text)
Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 820-822, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
TBB 12, "Bonny Barbara Allan" (1 text)
SHenry H236, pp. 375-376, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Munnelly/Deasy-Lenihan 9, "Barb'ry Ellen" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 11, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Gilbert, pp. 25-26, "Barbara Allen" (1 text)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 68-69, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (1 text)
Abrahams/Foss, p. 143, "(Barbara Allen)" (1 tune, partial text)
LPound-ABS, 3, pp. 7-9, "Barbery Allen"; p. 10, "Barbara Allen" (2 texts)
JHCox 16, "Bonny Barbara Allen" (9 texts plus mention of 3 more; 2 tunes) {Bronson's #138, #91}
Darling-NAS, pp. 50-54, "Barbara Allen"; "Barbro Allen" (2 texts)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 79, "Barbara Allen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 179 "Barbara Allen" (1 text)
BBI, ZN1459, "In Scarlet Town where I was bound"
DT 84, BARBALEN* BARBALN2* BARBALN3* BARBALN4 BARBALN5
ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), pp. 212-213, "(Barbara Allen)" (1 text)
Leslie Shepard, _The Broadside Ballad_, Legacy Books, 1962, 1978, p. 148, "The True Ballad of Barbara Allen's Cruelty" (reproduction of a broadside page)
Ed Cray, "''Barbara Allen': Cheap Print and Reprint" article published 1967 in _Folklore Internation: Essays in Traditional Literature, Belief and Custom in Honor of Wayland Hand_; republished on pp. 159-168 of Norm Cohen, editor, _All This for a Song_, Southern Folklife Collection, 2009
Walter de la Mare, _Come Hither_, revised edition, 1928; #368, "Bonny Barbara Allan" (1 text)
Roud #54
RECORDINGS:
Bob Atcher, "Barbara Allen [pts. 1 & 2]" (Columbia 20481, c. 1948; rec. 1947)
Alex Barr, "Barbara Allen" (AFS 4228 A/4228 B, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)
Andy Cash, "Barbary Ellen" (on IRTravellers01)
James B. Cornett, "Barbara Allen" (on MMOK, MMOKCD)
Vernon Dalhart, "Barbara Allen" Brunswick 117/Vocalion 5140, 1927; Supertone S-2002, 1930 {Bronson's #131}) (Okeh 45090 [as Tobe Little], 1927) (Columbia 15126-D [as Al Craver], 1927) (Grey Gull 4239 [as Jeff Calhoun], 1928) (Champion 15246/Black Patti 8028, 1927; Supertone 9228, 1928) (Challenge 268, 1927)
Rosie Day, "Barbara Ellen" (on JThomas01)
Patsy Flynn, "Barbara Allen" (on IRHardySons)
Newton Gaines, "Barbara Allen" (Victor V-40253 [as Jim New?], 1930) {cf. Bronson's #71}
Molly Galbraith, "Barbara Allen" (on Saskatch01)
G. Marston Haddock, "Barbara Allen" (Musicraft 262, c. 1944)
Seena Helms, "Barbara Allen" (on HandMeDown2)
(Queen) Hule Hines, "Barbara Allen" (AFS 2714 B2, 1939)
Rebecca King Jones, "Barbara Allen" [excerpt] (on USWarnerColl01)
Bradley Kincaid, "Barbara Allen" (Supertone 9211, 1928); (Melotone 12349/Conqueror 7982, 1932; Vocalion 02685, 1934; rec. 1930)
Sam Larner, "Barbara Allen" (on SLarner01)
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "Barbara Allen" (on ENMacCollSeeger02)
Sarah Makem, "Barbara Allen" (on Voice17)
Jessie Murray, Fred Jordan, Charlie Wills, Ma[r]y Bennell, Thomas Moran, Phil Tanner [composite] "Barbara Allen" (on FSB4, FSBBAL1)
William Nash, "Barbary Ellen" (on PeacockCDROM)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Barbara Allen" (on NLCR10)
Bill Nicholson w. Zane Shrader, "Barbara Allen" (AFS; on LC14) {Bronson's #70}
Mose "Clear Rock" Platt, "Barbara Allen" (AFS 201 A, 1933; on LC54)
Granny Porter w. Wade Ward, "Barbry Allen" (on Persis1)
Mr. Rew, "Barbara Allen" (on FieldTrip1)
Jean Ritchie, "Barbry Ellen" (on JRitchie01) {cf. Bronson's #142}
Pete Seeger, "Barbara Allen" (on PeteSeeger16) (on PeteSeeger40)
Lucy Stewart, "Barbary Allen" (on LStewart1)
Art Thieme, "The Cowboys' Barbara Allen" (on Thieme01) (on Thieme06)
The Vagabonds, "Barbara Allen" (Bluebird B-5300/Montgomery Ward M-4442, 1934; rec. 1933)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 3(49), "Barbara Allen's Cruelty" or "The Young Man's Tragedy," J. Davenport (London), 1800-1802; also Douce Ballads 3(3a), "Barbara Allen's Cruelty" or "The Young Man's Tragedy"; Harding B 25(115), Harding B 11(730), Johnson Ballads 266, Firth c.21(22), Firth c.21(23), Harding B 16(14a), 2806 c.17(19), Harding B 11(1011), Firth c.21(21), Harding B 11(729), "Barbara Allen"; Harding B 11(2121), "The Life, Death, and Love, of Barbara Allen"
Murray, Mu23-y1:138, "Barbara Allen" and "Barbara Allen the Cruel," Poet's Box (St. Andrew's), 19C [two distinct texts, with critical introduction]
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Shantyman's Life (I)" (tune)
cf. "Brother Green" (tune)
cf. "Leslie Allen" (tune)
cf. "Mother, Mother, Make My Bed" (floating verses)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Barbara Ellen
Barbary Allen
NOTES: Ed Cray makes the interesting note that, in a study he did with Charles Seeger, he found four basic versions of the text of this song (which can be initially sorted by their first lines), and Seeger found four basic tune families. But the text groupings and tune groupings do not overlap.
Bronson, too, finds four tune families (Group A of 39 tunes, B of 11, C of 87, and D of 54, plus a handful of odds and ends). Not all of Bronson's texts can be proved to be Barbara Allen (e.g. #1 could come from several ballads), but spot checks of Bronson seem to support at least partly Cray's thesis. While many versions could not be identified based solely on first lines, I found the following:
Of the 39 texts in Bronson's "A" group, 12 have the opening "In Scarlet Town (Reading Town, London Town, Scotland) where I was born," 7 start with "All in the merry month of May (June)," and 3 open with "So early, early in the Spring."
Of the texts in the "B" group, 4 begin "It was about the Martinmas time," two are "Merry month of May," and one is "Scarlet Town."
In the huge "C" group, 34 versions were "Merry month," 20 were "Scarlet Town," 2 were "Martinmas," and 4 were "So early."
In the "D" group, 27 were "Merry Month," 9 were "Scarlet Town," and 2 were "So early."
Based on this, we might speculate that:
1. The original text was "All in the merry month of May" (70 instances) and that the tune was, if anything, Bronson's "C" group. This group is described as pentatonic, though the timing varies.
2. "Scarlet Town" goes with the "A" group, and might be next in age, since the first line is second to "Merry month" in popularity (42 instances). Bronson considers this tune to be primarily English, and perhaps somewhat related to the "C" tune.
3. "Martinmas" is originally (and still primarily) associated with the "B" group. Bronson lists this group as primarily Scottish.
4. "So Early," might seem, by elimination, to go with the "D" group. But this group is entirely American, and the tune (according to Bronson) is related to "Boyne Water," so this seems unlikely. Perhaps "D" has no special text associated with it.
But this is all very tentative (and based on only a few minutes' work on my part); if studies of classical texts teach us anything, it's that variants are to be weighed and not counted!
Phillips Barry speculates that this is based on the lives of Barbara Villiers and King Charles II. This is characteristic of Barry: Clever but completely unconvincing. - RBW
The name "Barbara," cognate with "barbarian," means "foreigner" [technically, someone who doesn't speak Greek - RBW]; Martin Carthy has conjectured that the original story involved a Gypsy or North African woman, and that racial prejudice explains why William slights her, and why she is so cold to him as a result. - PJS
If we're going for the way-far-out, Underwood, pp. 343-344, has a tale which sounds amazingly like this one: Edmund Graeme (a name not far from that sometimes used for Barbara's swain) fell in love with an unnamed girl. They were engaged, but she betrayed his trust. He died for love. She repented within moments of his death. She asked to be buried (alive, in Underwood's version) with him. His story is that her ghost haunts the site.
Of course, all this would be much better for documentation. And dates; it might well be more recent than Barbara's story.
There is one element in the song which does have a strong foreign element: The rose-and-briar ending. This, of course, is not unique to this song, though it's most strongly associated with Barbara and her love. But the rose-and-briar-and-lover's-knot theme has been found as far away as Hungary (Romania?); Karpeles, p. 228, prints a Transylvanian version, "Kadar Kata," "Katie Kadar," with a loose English translation. In that version, the mother has drowned the girl, and the boy drowns himself where he finds her ghost. In that version, he is the rose, she the briar -- and the mother tears them out of the ground. The rose then curses his mother. (Could this be the origin of some sort of legend of the undead?)
The story also has roots in Ireland. For a version of the story of Deirdre of the Sorrows, see Colum, pp. 73-83; also the much shorter summary in Ellis, pp. 80-81. Deirdre, it was foretold at her birth, would grow up to be the most beautiful woman in Ireland, but also to cause great grief to the one who married her and to his nation. Although Conor cared for the child, promising to wed her himself (and hence prevent any sorrow for anyone who mattered), she was not interested in an old man (more to the point, perhaps, she may have felt the normal aversion children feel for those they grow up with; for background, see the notes to "Babylon, or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie [Child 14]"). She instead fell in love with Naisi, and though strenuous efforts were made to keep them apart, he was killed and she killed herself. They slept side by side, and a tree grew from each, and the trees intertwined.
The intertwining of branches is also found in the romance of Tristan and Iseult.
Cambiaire claims there is a Spanish romance parallel to "Barbara Allen." Unfortunately he does not name it. Still, it seems clear that the rose-and-briar-intertwining theme is widespread at least across Europe. Cultural cross-fertilization, independent invention, or does this go back all the way to Indo-European? Perhaps there is a dissertation in there somewhere. - RBW
Broadside Murray Mu23-y1:138, "Barbara Allan the Cruel," ends as a parody in which Barbara "gets another spark" after Johnny dies and, when she eventually dies," she is buried beside him "For she wished to be his bride in death, Though in life she couldn't abide 'un."
Wiltshire-WSRO Wt 388 adds two verses to the Williams-Thames text on pp. 204-205: the rose and briar spring from the bodies and tie in a true lover's knot at the chancel top. - BS
Bibliography
- Colum: Padraic Colum, A Treasury of Irish Folklore, 1954; revised edition 1967 (I use the 1992 Wings Books edition)
- Ellis: P. Berresford Ellis, A Dictionary of Irish Mythology, 1987 (I use the 1991 Oxford paperback edition)
- Karpeles: Maud Karpeles, Folk Songs of Europe, Oak, 1956, 1964, p. 228
- Underwood; Peter Underwood: Gazetteer of British, Scottish & Irish Ghosts, originally published as two volumes, A gazetteer of British Ghosts (1971?) and A gazeteer of Scottish and Irish Ghosts (1973?); although the two volumes still have separate title pages, the 1985 Bell edition I use has continuous pagination and a single index
Folk Index: Barbara/Barbry Allen [Ch 84/Sh 24/Me I-A 8]
Rt - Cowboy's Barbara Allen
At - Edelin ; Hard Hearted Barbary Ellen ; Sad Ballet Of Little Johnnie Green ; Sir John Graham ; Mary Alling ; Bober(ick) Allan ; Babie Allan ; Bonny Barbara Allan
Rm - Round Cape Horn ; Battle of the Boyne (Water) ; Old Devil Time ; Come All Ye/You Fair and Tender Ladies/Maidens
Mf - Assination of Governor William Goebel ; Sergeant Champe ; Heavenly Dove
Pb - Sweet William Died
Pound, Louise (ed.) / American Ballads and Songs, Scribner, Sof (1972/1922), p 10/# 3B [1913]
Sandburg, Carl (ed.) / American Songbag, Harcourt, Sof (1955/1928), p 57
Snyder, Jerry (arr.) / Golden Guitar Folk Sing Book, Hansen, fol (1972), p 17
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p 89 [1740s]
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p 90 [1920s]
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p 92 [1920s]
Lynn, Frank (ed.) / Songs for Swingin' Housemothers, Fearon, Sof (1963/1961), p223
Time Tested Melodies That Never Grow Old, Cole, fol (1930), p90
Kidson, Frank (ed.) / Traditional Tunes. A Collection of Ballad Airs, S.R. Publishers, Bk (1970/1891), p 38 [1880s]
Chapple, Joseph Mitchell / Heart Songs, Chappell, Bk (1909), p247
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Hootenanny Tonight!, Gold Medal Books, sof (1964), p 45 [1940s]
Lomax, Alan / Folk Songs of North America, Doubleday Dolphin, Sof (1975/1960), p183/# 89
Newell, William Wells (ed.) / Games and Songs of American Children, Dover, sof (1963/1909), p 78/# 19 [1870-90s]
Kennedy, Charles O'Brien (ed.) / American Ballads - Naughty, Ribald and, Premier Book, sof (1956/1952), p149
Kennedy, Charles O'Brien (ed.) / Treasury of American Ballads; Gay, Naug, McBride, Bk (1954), p 25
Blood, Peter; and Annie Patterson (eds.) / Rise Up Singing, Sing Out, Sof (1992/1989), p 7
Sandburg, Helga (ed.) / Sweet Music, Dial, Bk (1963), p148
Luboff, Norman; and Win Stracke (eds.) / Songs of Man, Prentice-Hall, Bk (1966), p 94 (Barb'ry/Barb'ra Ellen)
Boni, Margaret Bradford (ed.) / Fireside Book of Folk Songs, Simon & Schuster, Bk (1947), p104
Botkin, Benjamin / A Treasury of American Folklore, Crown, Bk (1944), p820 [1930s?] (Bonny Barbara Allan)
Albert E. Brumley's Songs of the Pioneers, Brumley, Fol (1970), 20
Shelton, Robert (ed.) / Josh White Song Book, Quadrangle, Sof (1963), p142
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Folk Song Abecedary, Bonanza, Bk (1966), p 22
Herder, Ronald (ed.) / 500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics, Dover dn500/500, Sof (1998), p 28
Johnson, James & Robert Burns (eds) / Scots Musical Museum, Amadeus, Bk (1991/1853), #221 [1790] (Bonny Barbara Allan)
Agay, Denes / Best Loved Songs of the American People, Doubleday, fol (1975), p 17
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p277 (Bonny Barbara Allan)
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p278 (Bonny Barbara Allan)
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p279 (Bonny Barbara Allan)
Leach, MacEdward / The Heritage Book of Ballads, Heritage, Bk (1967), p115 (Bonny Barbara Allan)
Journal of American Folklore, AFS, Ser (1887-), 6, P131(1893) [1880s] (Barbro Allen)
Dykema, Peter W.(ed.) / Sing Out! Teacher's Book, Birchard, Bk (1947), p 76
Ambletown Three. Ambletown Three, Hi-Life HLP 68, LP (196?), trk# A.04
Ashlaw, Ted. Adirondack Woods Singer, Philo 1022, LP (1976), trk# 3 [1972/08]
Atcher, Bob. Early American Folk Songs, Columbia HL 9006, LP (1949), trk# A.01 [1937ca]
Baez, Joan. Joan Baez, Volume 2, Vanguard VSD 2097, LP (1961), trk# 10
Baez, Joan. Siegmeister, Elie (arr.) / Joan Baez Song Book, Ryerson Music, Sof (1971/1964), p 58
Baker, Lyndell O.. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p 96/# 16A [1915/01/28]
Barley Bree. Castles in the Air, Shanachie 52010, LP (1985), trk# A.04
Baynes, Thomas. Lark in the Morning. Songs & Dances from the Irish Countryside, Tradition TLP 1004, LP (1956), trk# 22
Bennell, Mary. Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# B.07c [1950s]
Bowerman, Ora Keene. Scarborough, Dorothy(ed.) / A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains, AMS, Bk (1966/1937), p 92,387 [1930] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Brand, Oscar. Songs of Rebels and Redcoats, National Geographic 07788, LP (1972), trk# A.08
Brooks, Mrs. Marion. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p107/# 16I [1922]
Caldwell, Walter. Thomas, Jean & Joseph Leeder / Singin' Gatherin', Silver Burdette, Bk (1939), p 6 [1930/06] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Callahan, Clara. Scarborough, Dorothy(ed.) / A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains, AMS, Bk (1966/1937), p 93,388 [1930] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Carter, Maybelle (Mother Maybelle). Mother Maybelle Carter, Hilltop JS-6172, LP (1975), trk# A.05
Chapman, Margaret Lillie. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p127/# 21A [1931/07/03]
Chisholm, N. B.. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p191/# 24H [1916/09/21]
Clawson, Flossie. Scarborough, Dorothy(ed.) / A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains, AMS, Bk (1966/1937), p 95,388 [1930ca] (Barbare/Barbarie Allen)
Clayre, Alasdair. Clayre, Alasdair (ed.) / 100 Folk Songs and New Songs, Wolfe, Sof (1968), p 6
Collins, Mitzie. Sampler of Folk Music, Sampler aafm 7601, LP (1976), trk# A.03
Cook, Judy. If You Sing Songs, Cook, CD (1998), trk# 1 (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Cooper, Jan. Hubbard, Lester A. / Ballads and Songs from Utah, Univ. of Utah, Bk (1961), p 22/# 9C [1952/03/10]
Cornett, J. D.. Mountain Music of Kentucky, Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40077, CD( (1996), trk# 1.08 [1959]
Cotton, Stella. Pound, Louise (ed.) / American Ballads and Songs, Scribner, Sof (1972/1922), p 7/# 3A [1905ca]
Cowan, Debra. Songs and Ballads of Hattie Mae Tyler Cargill, Folk Legacy CD 128, CD (2001), trk# 16
Craven, Callie. McNeil, W. K. (ed.) / Southern Folk Ballads, Vol 1, August House, Sof (1987), p102 [1946/11/26]
Cunningham, George W.. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p103,523/# 16E [1915/07] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Curtis, C. F.. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p135/# 21L [1938/12/27]
Davis, Bill. Sounds of the Smokies, Old Tradition BWD 51471, LP (1971), trk# B.03
De Danann. Selected Jigs, Reels & Songs, Shanachie 79001, LP (1978), trk# 12
DeWelse, Ettamae Howard. Scarborough, Dorothy(ed.) / A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains, AMS, Bk (1966/1937), p 89 [1930] (Barbare/Barbarie Allen)
Douglas Family. Thompson, Harold W.(ed.) / Body, Boots & Britches, Dover, Bk (1962/1939), p379 [1930s]
Dusenberry, Emma L.. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p135/# 21K [1931/01/27]
Dyer-Bennet, Richard. Richard Dyer-Bennet No. 5. Requests, Dyer-Bennet 5000, LP (1958), trk# A.06
Eubank, Mrs.. Tolman, Albert H. / Some Songs Traditional in the United States, Amer. Folklore Soc. JAF, Bk (1916), p161 [1900ca] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Ford, Brownie. Stories from Mountains, Swamps & Honky-Tonks, Flying Fish FF-90 559, Cas (1990), trk# B.02 [1981/05]
Ford, Tennessee Ernie. Ford, Tennessee Ernie / Gather 'Round, Capitol T 1227, LP (1959), trk# B.02
Forgy, Mrs. A. J.. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p133/# 21G [1939/02/06]
Fraley, Annadeene. Land of Yahoe, Rounder 8041, CD (1996), trk# 28
Furnas, Paul. Dulcimer Players News, DPN, Ser, 27/1, P30(2001)
Gainer, Patrick. Folk Songs of the Alleghenies, Folk Heritage, LP (1963), trk# A.07
Gay, Roxie (Miss). Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p185/# 24C [1914/02]
Gentry, Jane Hicks. Smith, Betty N. / Jane Hicks Gentry. A Singer Among Singers, U. Ky, Sof (1998), p152/#12 [1916/08/25]
Gladden, Texas. Ballad Legacy, Rounder 1800, CD (2001/1941), trk# 14 [1941/08]
Golden Ring. Golden Ring. A Gathering of Friends for Making Music, Folk Legacy FSI 016, LP (1964), trk# 12
Grace, Lois. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p134/# 21I [1934/10/07]
Gregory, Martha Corwin. Wolfe, Charles K.(ed.) / Folk Songs of Middle Tennessee. George Boswell, Univ. Tennesse, Sof (1997), p 11/# 5 [1949/07/14]
Harmon, Mary Ellwood/Ellingwood. Linscott, Eloise Hubbard (ed.) / Folk Songs of Old New England, Dover, Bk (1993/1939), p163 [1920-30s] (Barb'ry/Barb'ra Ellen)
Hawker, Ginny; and Kay Justice. Signs and Wonders, June Appal JA 060, Cas (1990), trk# 4
Henson, Bin (Mr. Bin.). Sharp, Cecil & Maude Karpeles (eds.) / Eighty English Folk Songs from th, MIT Press, Sof (1968), p 42 [1917ca]
Henson, Bin (Mr. Bin.). Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p194/# 24M [1917/05/09]
Hensley, Emma. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p191/# 24G [1916/08/08]
Herring, Merritt. Precious Memories, Herring 31351, CD (199?), trk# 12
Hillmen. Hillmen, Sugar Hill SH 3719, LP (1981/1963), trk# 5
Hornsby, Jim. Solomon, Jack & Olivia (eds.) / Sweet Bunch of Daisies, Colonial Press, Bk (1991), p 24 [1960ca]
Howard, Carrie. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p192/# 24K [1917/06/03]
Hubbard, Salley A.. Hubbard, Lester A. / Ballads and Songs from Utah, Univ. of Utah, Bk (1961), p 21/# 9B [1946/02/06]
Irish, Mrs. E. I.. Morris, Alton C. / Folksongs of Florida, Univ. Florida, Bk (1950), p285/#161B [1934-39]
Ives, Burl. Women. Folk Songs About the Fair Sex, Decca DL 8246, LP (1956/1953), trk# A.05
Ives, Burl. Ives, Burl / Burl Ives Song Book, Ballantine Books, Bk (1953), p 58
Jane and Ireland. Jane and Ireland at Penland, Penland RSR-1027, LP (1979), trk# A.05
Jenkins, Martha. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p 98/# 16B [1916] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Jenkins, Tim. Bonnie Sue Cleland; Tales of Love and Death, Jenkins, CD (2011), trk# 4 (Barbarry Allen)
Jepson, James. Hubbard, Lester A. / Ballads and Songs from Utah, Univ. of Utah, Bk (1961), p 20/# 9A [1947/08/11]
Johnson, Ellie. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p187/# 24D [1916/09/14]
Jordan, Fred. Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# B.07b [1950s]
Kazee, Buell. Old Time Banjo in America, Kicking Mule KM 204, LP (1978), trk# 16 [1975ca]
Keely, Josiah. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p104,523/# 16F [1917/12/27]
Keene, Laura. Scarborough, Dorothy(ed.) / A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains, AMS, Bk (1966/1937), p 85,386 [1930] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Kincaid, Bradley. Bradley Kincaid, Volume 1, Old Homestead OHCS 314, LP (1984/1963), trk# A.01 [1963/07ca]
Kincaid, Bradley. Mountain Ballads and Old Time Songs, Old Homestead OHCS 107, LP (197?), trk# A.04
Lang, Mrs. P. J.. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p105/# 16G [1915/10] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Lewis, John. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p195/# 24N [1917/08/29]
Long, Maud Gentry. Smith, Betty N. / Jane Hicks Gentry. A Singer Among Singers, U. Ky, Sof (1998), p153/#12A [1947]
Lowery, Mrs. Jim. Moore, Ethel & Chauncey (ed.) / Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest, Univ. of Okla, Bk (1964), p 68/# 24 [1940s]
MacArthur Family. Make the Wildwoods Ring, Front Hall FHR 027, LP (1982), trk# 3
MacColl, Ewan. Long Harvest. Traditional Ballads in their English, Scots and..., Argo ZDA 069, LP (1967), trk# A.01
MacColl, Ewan. Long Harvest. Traditional Ballads in their English, Scots and..., Argo ZDA 069, LP (1967), trk# A.02
MacColl, Ewan. Manchester Angel, Tradition TR 2059, LP (197?), trk# A.03
MacColl, Ewan. Scott, John Anthony (ed.) / Ballad of America, Grosset & Dunlap, Bk (1967), p 7 (Bawbee Allen)
MacColl, Ewan. English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol. 4, Washington WLP 718, LP (196?), trk# B.03 (Bawbee Allen)
MacKinney, Florence. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p184/# 24B [1910/05/28]
Makem, Sarah. Mrs. Sara Makem, Ulster Ballad Singer, Topic 12T 182, LP (1968), trk# 11 [1967]
Marlow, I. N. (Nick). I'm On My Journey Home; Vocal Styles & Resources in Folk Music, New World NW 223, LP (1978), trk# A.05 [1936/11/17]
Mayo, Cleaver. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p195/# 24O [1918/04/24]
McAtee, Nancy McDonald. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p101/# 16D [1916] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
McClellan, Mrs. C. S.. Morris, Alton C. / Folksongs of Florida, Univ. Florida, Bk (1950), p287/#161C [1934-39] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
McCoy, Lula. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p183/# 24A [1914]
McCord, May Kennedy. Owens, William A. (ed.) / Texas Folk Songs. 2nd edition, SMU Press, Bk (1976/1950), p 23 [1939]
McCord, May Kennedy. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p134/# 21J [1936/12/10]
McCoy, Paul (B.). Allegheny Trails, Jewel LPS 504, LP (1975), trk# A.06 (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
McCurdy, Ed. Ballad Singer's Choice, Tradition TLP 1003, LP (1956), trk# B.01
McDowell, Louise. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p137/# 21N [1941/08/25]
McNeil, Brownie. Folksongs, Sonic, LP (195?), trk# 8
Medars, Florie. Niles, John Jacob / Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles, Bramhall House, Bk (1961), p206/N 36B [1934/07]
Misty River. Stories, Misty River MRCD 005, CD (2007), trk# 10 (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Moore, Charlie. Charlie Moore Sings Good Bluegrass, Vetco LP 3011, LP (196?), trk# B.02
Moran, Thomas. Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# B.07e [1950s]
Morris, Polly. Scarborough, Dorothy(ed.) / A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains, AMS, Bk (1966/1937), p 87,387 [1930]
Mulhollan, Fanny. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p133/# 21H [1927/08/24]
Murray, Jessie. Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# B.07a [1950s]
Neaves, Glen; and the Virginia Mountain Boys. Country Bluegrass from Southwest Virginia, Folkways FA 3830, LP (1974), trk# A.08
New Christy Minstrels. Tell Tall Tales!, Columbia CS 8817, LP (1963), trk# B.04 (Jimmy Grove and Barbara Ellen)
New Christy Minstrels. New Christy Minstrels / Tall Tales! Choral Album, Keys, Fol (1963), p43 (Jimmy Grove and Barbara Ellen)
Nicholson, Bill; and Zane Shrader. Emrich, Duncan / Folklore on the American Land, Little, Brown, sof (1972), p572 [1946/04]
Ni Dhomhnaill, Mairead. Sailing into Walpole's March, Green Linnet SIF 1004, LP (1977), trk# A.04
Niles, John Jacob. Okun, Milt (ed.) / Something to Sing About, MacMillan, Bk (1968), p 35 (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Norton, Alfred E.. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p188/# 24E [1916/09/02]
Osbourne, Virginia. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p129/# 21C [1930s]
Owens, Bill; and the Kinfolk. Songs of the Smokey Mountains, REM LP-1024, LP (197?), trk# 4
Owens, Ethel. Scarborough, Dorothy(ed.) / A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains, AMS, Bk (1966/1937), p 83 [1930] (Ballet of Barbara Allen)
Oxford, Mrs. Ray (Roy). Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p139/# 21O [1941/12/13]
Pine Mountain Settlement School Children. Wells, Evelyn Kendrick (ed.) / The Ballad Tree, Ronald, Bk (1950), p113 [1916] (Barbry Ellen)
Porter, Granny. Ballads and Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains., Asch AH 3831, LP (1968), trk# A.03 [1959]
Pugh, Thurman. 28th Annual Galax Old Fiddlers Convention. Galax, Virginia 1963, Kanawha 302, LP (1963), trk# 7
Redpath, Jean. Scottish Ballad Book, Elektra EKL 214, LP (1962), trk# 2
Redpath, Jean; with Abby Newton. Love Is Teasin', PHC 1111, LP (1984), trk# A.05
Reed, Susan. O Love Is Teasin', Elektra 60402-1-U, LP (1957), trk# 1.01
Riddle, Almeda. Granny Riddle's Songs and Ballads, Minstrel JS 203, LP (1977), trk# A.05
Riddle, Almeda. Abrahams, Roger D.(ed.) / A Singer and Her Songs. Almeda Riddle's Book o, Louisiana State U. Press, Bk (1970), p 87 [1964-67]
Ritchie, Jean. British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains (Vol. 1), Folkways FA 2301, LP (1961), trk# 10
Ritchie, Jean. Ritchie, Jean / Singing Family of the Cumberlands, Oak, sof (1955), p169
Ritchie, Jean. Ritchie, Jean / Dulcimer Book, Oak, sof (1963), p27
Ritchie, Jean. Appalachian Dulcimer, Folkways FM 8352, LP (1963), trk# A.08-A.09
Ritter, Tex. Blood on the Saddle, Capitol T 1292, LP (1960), trk# A.02
Roberts, John; and Tony Barrand. Mellow with Ale from the Horn, Front Hall FHR 004, LP (1975), trk# A.03
Rush, Tom. Tom Rush, Fantasy F 24709, LP (1972/1963), trk# 21
Schilling, Jean. Old Traditions, Traditional JS 5117, LP (1974/1967), trk# B.01
Scoldes, Mrs. L.. Morris, Alton C. / Folksongs of Florida, Univ. Florida, Bk (1950), p288/#161D [1934-39]
Seeger, Peggy. Long Harvest. Traditional Ballads in their English, Scots and..., Argo ZDA 069, LP (1967), trk# A.03
Seeger, Peggy. Cold Snap, Folkways FW 8765, LP (1978), trk# B.02
Seeger, Pete. American Ballads, Folkways FA 2319, LP (1957), trk# 13
Seeger, Pete. 20th Aniversery Concert, Flying Fish FF 090, LP (1986/1980), trk# A.03
Seeger, Pete. Seeger, Pete / American Favorite Ballads, Oak, fol (1961), p79
Seeger, Pete. American Favorite Ballads, Smithsonian/Folkways SFW-CD 40155, CD( (2009), trk# 2.01 [1957]
Seeger, Pete. Seeger, Pete / Where Have All The Flowers Gone (3rd ed), Sing Out, Sof (2009), p230/C35
Shelton, Donna. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p192/# 24J [1916/08/09]
Shelton, Wonnie. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p191/# 24I [1916/08/11]
Short, Lillian. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p136/# 21M [1941/05/30]
Simmons, Ruth. Morris, Alton C. / Folksongs of Florida, Univ. Florida, Bk (1950), p283/#161A [1934-39]
Sizemore, Asher; and Little Jimmy. Sizemore, Asher; and Little Jimmy / Old Fashioned Hynns and Mountain .., Sizemore, fol (1933), p11
Sizemore, Asher; and Little Jimmy. Sizemore, Asher; and Little Jimmy / Favorite Mountain Ballads & Old T..., Sizemore, fol (1932), p23
Sizemore, Carter. Niles, John Jacob / Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles, Bramhall House, Bk (1961), p203/N 36A [1933] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Sloan, Alice. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p194/# 24L [1917/05/06]
Smith, Ada B.. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p190/# 24F [1907/12/06]
Smith, Peggy Donaldson. Shady Grove, Shady Grove PDS 11-30-78, LP (1978), trk# B.06
Song Spinners. Johnson, Margaret & Travis (eds) / Early American Songs from ... the Spi, AMP, Fol (1943), # 8
Stamper, I. D.. Red Wing, June Appal JA 010, LP (1977), trk# 11
Starkey, Cora. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p100/# 16C [1916] (Barbara/Barbary Ellen)
Stewart, Lucy. Traditional Singer from Aberdeen. Vol. 1 - Child Ballads, Greentrax CTrax 031, Cas (Gre5), trk# B.04
Stowe, Mrs. I. L.. Owens, William A. (ed.) / Texas Folk Songs. 2nd edition, SMU Press, Bk (1976/1950), p 25 [1938]
Tanner, Phil (Philip). Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# B.07f [1950s]
Tarwater, Rebecca. Anglo American Ballads, Library of Congress AFS L 1, LP (1956), trk# A.04 [1935]
Tester, Scan and Will. Scan Tester. I Never Played to Many Posh Dances, Topic 12TS 455/6, LP (1990), trk# 3.05 [1965/01/21]
Thacker, Maude. Rosenbaum, Art (ed.) / Folk Visions & Voices. Traditional Music & So...., Univ. of Georgia, Bk (1983), p 72 [1980/08/02]
Thomas, Tony. Old Style Texas and Oklahoma Fiddling, Takoma A 1013, LP (195?), trk# 24
Thornton, Laura. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p128/# 21B [1927/12/11]
Tomes, Aunt Marie. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p195/# 24P [1918/05/22]
Tucker, George. George Tucker, Rounder 0064, LP (1976), trk# 11
Unidentified English Girl. Kidson, Frank (ed.) / Traditional Tunes. A Collection of Ballad Airs, S.R. Publishers, Bk (1970/1891), p 31 [1880s]
Unidentified Joplin Woman. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p132/# 21F [1924/07/04]
Unidentified Singer (West Virginia). Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p106/# 16H [1917] (Love of Barbara Ellen)
Wardill, A.. Kidson, Frank (ed.) / Traditional Tunes. A Collection of Ballad Airs, S.R. Publishers, Bk (1970/1891), p 40 [1880s]
West, Harry and Jeanie. Smoky Mountain Ballads, Perpetual 302-063-034-2, CD (2007/1956), trk# 16
West, Hedy. Old Times and Hard Times, Folk Legacy FSA 032, LP (1967), trk# A.03
Whittaker, Judy Jane. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p129/# 21D [1928/05/12]
White, Violet. Thompson, Harold W.(ed.) / Body, Boots & Britches, Dover, Bk (1962/1939), p377 [1930s]
Wilbur, Marie. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p131/# 21E [1926/11/07]
Wills, Charlie (Charles William). Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# B.07d [1950s]
Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps. Fife & Drums of Williamsburg, Col. Williamsburg WS 101, LP (1975), trk# B.05b
Workman, Nimrod. I Want to Go Where Things Are Beautiful, Twos & Fews DC 379CD, CD (2008), trk# 24 [1982]
The Cowboy's Barbara Allen [Ch 84]
Rt - Barbara/Barbry Allen
Thieme, Art. Outright Bold-Faced Lies, Kicking Mule KM 150, LP (1977), trk# 9
Child Collection Index: Child Ballad 084: Bonny Barbara Allen
Child #---Artist-- Title--- Album--- Year-- Length-- Have Recording
084 Abner Boggs Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Abunai! Barbara Allen The Mystic River Sound 1999 4:57 Yes
084 Al Kastell Barbara Ellen Cheltica 2 2005 No
084 Alasdair Roberts & Friends Barbara Allen Too Long in This Condition 2010 5:29 Yes
084 Albert Cox Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Albert Parsley & Landon Messer Barbara Allen Hemlock and Primroses + Barbara Allen 1964 No
084 Alec Bloomfield Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Alec Bloomfield Barbara Ellen The Foggy Dew - Singers from Suffolk & Essex 1975 No
084 Alec Moore Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Alex Barr Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Alex Barr Barbara Allen California Gold - Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected By Sidney Robertson Cowell 193? 5:12 Yes
084 Alex Campbell Barbara Allen Way Out West 1963 No
084 Alex Troup Barbara Allen The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Alexandra Hawley & Jeffrey McFadden Barbara Allen Terry Riley - Cantos Desiertos 2003 No
084 Alfred Deller Barbara Allen The Three Ravens - Elizabethan Folk and Minstrels Songs 2003 2:10 Yes
084 Alfred Deller Barbara Allen The Three Ravens - Elizabethan Folk and Minstrels Songs 1994 2:07 Yes
084 Alfred Deller Barbara Allen Portrait of a Legend 2004 2:30 Yes
084 Alfred Deller, Mark Deller & Desmond Dupré Barbara Allen Folksongs 1972 2:36 Yes
084 Almeda Riddle Barbara Allen Granny Riddle's Songs and Ballads 1977 5:38 Yes
084 Almeda Riddle Barbra Allen The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 5:19 Yes
084 Amy Ford Barbara Allen Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999 No
084 Anderson & Meis Barbara Allen Celtic Spirit 1994 No
084 Andreas Scholl Barbara Allen English Folksongs & Lute Songs 1996 3:08 Yes
084 Andreas Scholl Barbara Allen The Voice 2000 3:10 Yes
084 Andreas Scholl Barbara Allen A History of Baroque Music/Une Histoire De la Musique Baroque - Secular Music/Musiqie Profane 1999 3:04 Yes
084 Andreas Scholl Barbara Allen Live at Schwetzinger Festival, Germany 2002 4:03 Yes
084 Andreas Scholl Barbara Allen The Essential Andreas Scholl 2006 No
084 Andreas Scholl Barbara Allen The Wigmore Hall Centenary Concert 2001 4:52 Yes
084 Andreas Scholl & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Barbara Allen Wayfaring Stranger - Folksongs 2001 5:25 Yes
084 Andrew Rowan Summers Barbara Allen The Lady Gay 1954 No
084 Andy Cash Barbara Ellen Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie Collection No
084 Andy Cash Barbary Ellen From Puck to Appleby - Songs of Irish Travellers in England 2003 4:53 Yes
084 Andy Irvine & Friends Barbera Allen Live at Whelans 2004-8-6 2004 3:11 Yes
084 Angelo Branduardi Piano Piano Cercando L'Oro 1983 4:32 Yes
084 Angelo Branduardi Barbriallen Così È Se Mi Pare 2011 7:46 Yes
084 Anna Bush & R. French Barberry Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Anna Fiske Hough Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Anna L. Fiske Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Annadeene Fraley Barbary Allen The Land of Yahoe - Children's Entertainments from the Days before Television 1996 No
084 Anne, Robbin, and Holly Barbara Allen In the Meadow - Celtic and American Folk Music 2000 No
084 Annie O'Farrell Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Archie (Slim) Styes Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :16 Yes
084 Archie Stice Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Art Garfunkel Barbara Allen Angel Clare 1973 5:24 Yes
084 Art Thieme Cowboy's Barbara Allen The Older I Get, the Better I Was 1998 4:37 Yes
084 Arthur Coulter Barbara Allen (1) The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Collection No
084 Arthur Coulter Barbara Allen (2) The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Collection No
084 Aubrey Murphy Bonny Barbara Allan The Helen Creighton Collection No
084 Aunt Molly Jackson Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Aunt Molly Jackson Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 3:25 Yes
084 Barley Bree Barbara Allan Castles in the Air 1985 No
084 Barry McDonald Barbara Allen Australia: Music from the New England Tablelands of New South Wales 1999 4:18 Yes
084 Bascom Lamar Lunsford Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Bascom Lamar Lunsford Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :35 Yes
084 Belle Luther Richards Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Belshazzar's Feast Barbara Allen + Copper Pipe Polka One Too Many 1996 5:39 Yes
084 Benjamin Luxon Barbara Allen Down By the Salley Gardens 2001 No
084 Benjamin Luxon Hard-Hearted Barb'ra Helen Down By the Salley Gardens 2001 No
084 Benjamin Luxon & David Williams Barbara Allen I Love My Love - a Collection of British Folk Songs 1992 No
084 Benjamin Luxon & David Williams Barb'ra (H)Ellen I Love My Love - a Collection of British Folk Songs 1992 No
084 Bernard Steffen Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Bess Cronin Barbara Allen The Voice of the People, Vol. 23: Good People, Take Warning - Ballads sung by British and Irish Traditional Singers 2012 No
084 Betty Smith Barbara Allen Celebrating the 75th Mountain Dance and Folk Festival 2004 No
084 Betty Smith Barbara Allen Both Sides - Then and Now 1994 No
084 Betty Vaiden Williams Barbara Allen Folk Songs and Ballads of North Carolina 1957 No
084 Bill Atkins Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Bill Atkins & Jim Garland Barbara Allen The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection No
084 Bill Carr Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 2:31 Yes
084 Bill Carr Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Bill Cassidy Barbara Allen (1) Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie Collection No
084 Bill Cassidy Barbara Allen (2) Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie Collection No
084 Bill Cornett Barbara Allen The Lost Recordings of Banjo Bill Cornett 2005 No
084 Bill Davis Barbara Allen Sounds of the Smokies 1971 No
084 Bill Garden's Orchestra Barbara Allen Travel the Lake District 1996 No
084 Bill Nicholson & Zane Shrader Barbara Allen Folk Music of the United States - Anglo-American Songs and Ballads (2) 1953 5:20 Yes
084 Bill Owens & The Kinfolk Barbara Allan Songs of the Smokie Mountains 197? No
084 Bill Westaway Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Billy Brett Barbara Allen Parish Lantern 2007 3:02 Yes
084 Blackmore's Night Barbara Allen Autumn Sky 2010 3:41 Yes
084 Blackmore's Night Barbara Allen Live in Moscow 2011 4:55 Yes
084 Bluehorses Barbara Allen Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2006 2006 6:49 Yes
084 Bluehorses Barbera Allen Dragons Milk and Coal 2000 8:39 Yes
084 Bob Atcher Barbara Allan Early American Folk Songs 1949 No
084 Bob Blake (aka 'Dr. Bob' - The Music Doctor) Barbara Allen More Songs My Daddy Taught Me, Vol. 2 2007 3:07 Yes
084 Bob Dylan Barbara Allen Golden Vanity 1993 No
084 Bob Dylan Barbara Allen Genuine Neverending Tour Covers 1988-2000 2000 4:26 Yes
084 Bob Dylan Barbara Allen Gaslight Tapes 2001 8:09 Yes
084 Bob Dylan Barbara Allen Live at the Gaslight 1962 2005 7:51 Yes
084 Bob Dylan & the Gentleman's Club of Spalding Barbara Allen Captain Ahab's Dream 1988 4:25 Yes
084 Bob Hart Barbara Allen Songs from the Company of the Butley Oyster 1999 No
084 Bob Hart Barbara Allen Flash Company - Traditional Singers from Suffolk and Essex 1974 1:57 Yes
084 Bob Hart Barbara Allen A Broadside 2003 No
084 Boogertown Gap Barbara Allen Smoky Mountain Ballads [Boogertown Gap] 2010 No
084 Boone Estep & The Rambling Grass Barbara Allen Your Old Love Letters 1980 4:08 Yes
084 Brad Sondahl Barbara Allen <website> 2007 2:03 Yes
084 Brad Sondahl Scarlet Town (Barbara Allen) <website> 2007 1:45 Yes
084 Bradley Kincaid Barbara Allen Old-Time Songs & Hymns - Vol 1 & 2 1974 4:17 Yes
084 Bradley Kincaid Barbara Allen The Rose Grew Round the Briar, Vol. 1 - Early American Rural Love Songs - Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s 2000 3:08 Yes
084 Bradley Kincaid Barbara Allen Live at the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music 1982-1997 4:32 Yes
084 Bradley Kincaid Barbara Allen Mountain Ballads and Old-Time Songs - Vol. 2 1964 3:24 Yes
084 Bradley Kincaid Barbara Allen Mountain Ballads and Old Time Songs 1974 3:23 Yes
084 Brownie Ford Barbara Allen Stories from Mountains, Swamps & Honky-Tonks 1990 No
084 Brownie McNeil Barbry Allen Ballads 1948 No
084 Brownie McNeil Barbry Allen Folksongs By Brownie McNeil 1967 No
084 Buell Kazee Barbara Allan The Old-Time Banjo in America 1978 No
084 Buell Kazee Barbara Allen Art of Field Recording, Vol. II - 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum 2009 6:40 Yes
084 Burl Ives Barbara Allen Philco's Friendly Troubadour - 20 Vintage Radio Broadcasts 1946-47 2004 No
084 Burl Ives Barbara Allen America's Folk Singer - Burl Lives 2000 6:31 Yes
084 Burl Ives Barbara Allen The Wayfaring Stranger - The Golden Years of Burl Ives 2005 No
084 Burl Ives Barbara Allen Song Book 1973 No
084 Burl Ives Barb'ry Allen The Spoken Arts Treasury of American Ballads and Folk Songs 1970 5:40 Yes
084 Burl Ives Barbara Allen America's Folk Singer - 38 All-Time Greatest Hits 2000 6:31 Yes
084 Burl Ives Barbara Allen The Singing Wayfarer 2007 No
084 Calvin Kent Barbara Allen The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Cammi Vaughan Bonny Barbara Allan Lass of Roch Royal 2005 No
084 Capt. Pearl R. Nye Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Captain Pearl R. Nye Barbara Allen The Ballad Hunter, Parts V and VI 1958 No
084 Carl Peterson Barbara Allen The Auld Scotch Sangs 1998 4:22 Yes
084 Carl Peterson Barbara Allen Drifting with Michener 2006 No
084 Carl Peterson Barbara Allen Scottish Love Songs 2003 No
084 Carol Ponder Barbara Allen Little Journeys - A Cappella Ballads and Folk Songs 2000 2:57 Yes
084 Carthy Sisco Barbara Allen Rugged Road 2002 No
084 Cassie Franklin & Southern Brew Barbara Allen Song Links 2 - A Celebration of English Traditional Songs and Their American Variants 2005 2:50 Yes
084 Cathie O'Sullivan Barbary Ellen Song Links - A Celebration of English Traditional Songs and Their Australian Variants 2003 5:29 Yes
084 Cecil Surratt & Smitty Smith Barbara Allen Bluegrass Early Cuts 1931-1953 - Classic Recordings Remastered 2004 No
084 Cecil Surratt & Smitty Smith Barbara Allen Worried Man + Barbara Allen 1959 No
084 Celtaire String Band Barbara Allen From the Heart of Texas - A Collection of Tunes and Songs Enjoyed By Texans During Their State's First Hundred Years 2006 3:14 Yes
084 Charles Somers Barbara Allen The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Collection No
084 Charlie Ansell Barbara Allen <website> 2008 3:26 Yes
084 Charlie Ansell & RubySinnFury Barbara Allen <website> 2008 3:36 Yes
084 Charlie Byrd Barbara Allen Folk Festival 196? No
084 Charlie Hill Barbara Allen The Gwilym Davies Collection No
084 Charlie Moore Barbara Allen Charlie Moore Sings Good Bluegrass 1970 5:25 Yes
084 Charlie Scamp Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Charlie Scamp Barbary Allen The Voice of the People, Vol. 22: I'm a Romany Ray - Songs by Southern English Gypsy Traditional Singers 2012 No
084 Charlie Somers Barbro Allen Old British Ballads of Donegal and Derry - Traditional Singers Collected By Hugh Shields 1972
No
084 Charlie Wills Barbara Allen Up to the Rigs - Dorset Shepherd Singer 1975 No
084 Charlie Wills Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Charlie Wills Barbara Allen Charlie Wills 1972 No
084 Charlie Wills Barbara Allen Reg Hall Archive 1953-1977 3:31 Yes
084 Chipper Thompson Barbry Allen Strange Lullabies 2008 No
084 Christine Drescher & Richard Jones Barbara Allen Annie Laurie and Other Celtic Ballads 1998 No
084 Cisco Houston Barbara Allen Passing Through 1963 2:40 Yes
084 Clara Butt Barbara Allen Prima Voce 2004 No
084 Clyde (Slim) Wilson Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :27 Yes
084 Clyde (Slim) Wilson Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Colin Meloy Barbara Allen Colin Meloy Sings Trad. Arr. Shirley Collins 2006 4:15 Yes
084 Colin Meloy Barbara Allen Colin Meloy Sings Live! 2008 3:30 Yes
084 Colleen McNally-Harris Barbara Allen Celtic Grace 2007 3:34 Yes
084 Connie & Babe Barbara Allen Early Days of Bluegrass Vol. 10 1980 4:26 Yes
084 Connie & Babe Barbara Allen Early Bluegrass Classics 1980 4:22 Yes
084 Craig Duncan Barbara Allen Old English Melodies 2007 No
084 Crystal Gayle Barbara Allen The Music of the Wild West 2007 3:16 Yes
084 Curtis Dartey Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Custer LaRue Barbara Allen Ballads 1999 No
084 Cynthia Leiby Barbara Allen Ha Ha 2004 4:53 Yes
084 Dame Clara Butt Barbara Allen The Heart of Empire 1993 No
084 Dame Clara Butt Barbara Allen Abide with Me 2000 No
084 Dan Dutton Barbara Ellen Rose & Briar 2004 6:25 Yes
084 Dan Gibson Barbara Allen Celtic Awakening 1997 4:59 Yes
084 Dan Livingstone Barbery Allen The Helen Creighton Collection No
084 Dan Tate Barbara Allen (Bonnie Barbara Allen) Virginia Traditions - Ballads from British Tradition 1993 2:52 Yes
084 Dan Tate Barbara Allen Dan Tate - From the Collection of Peter Hoover 2006 No
084 Dando Shaft Barbara Allen Kingdom 1977 3:50 Yes
084 Daniel Brummel Barbara Allen Speak Easy 2005 No
084 Daniel Dutton Barbara Ellen Twelve Ballads 2006 No
084 Danny Brazil Barbary Allen The Brazil Family - Down By the Old Riverside 2007 No
084 Dave Burland Barbara Ellen Willin' 1989 4:20 Yes
084 Dave Couch Barbara Allen The Leonard Robers Collection - Sang Branch Settlers - Folksongs and Tails of a Kentucky Mountain Family 1952-1954 5:28 Yes
084 Dave Dudley Barbara Allen Six Days on the Road & Other Truck Drivin' Classics 2001 4:57 Yes
084 Dave Evans & Riverbend Barbara Allen Dave Evans and Riverbend 1998 5:03 Yes
084 Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman Barbara Allen Constant Lovers 1998 4:31 Yes
084 David Calder & The Yankee Soul Revue Barbara Allen 45 Miles from Nowhere 2000 No
084 David Daniel Ball Barbara Allen <website> 2007 3:20 Yes
084 David Grisman & Daniel Kobialka Barbara Allen Common Chord 1996 3:42 Yes
084 David Hobson Barbara Allen Enchanted Way 2010 No
084 David Keith Jones Barbara Allen Traditional England [Best of England] 2010 No
084 David Kilpatrick Barbara Allen (Bawbie Allen) David Kilpatrick 2005 3:42 Yes
084 David Wilkie Bonnie Barbara Allen Cowboy Celtic Collection - Celtic Roots of Cowboy Music 1999 5:46 Yes
084 De Danann Barbara Allen Selected Jigs, Reels & Songs 1978 4:43 Yes
084 Deadwoodmountain Barbara Allen <website> 2006 :46 Yes
084 Debbie & Pennie Davis Barbara Allen The Birds Upon the Tree and Other Traditional Songs and Tunes 2004 No
084 Debbie & Penny Harris Barbara Allen Travellers - Songs, Stories and Tunes from English Gypsies 1979 2:11 Yes
084 Debbie & Penny Harris Barbara Allen Travellers - Songs, Stories and Tunes from English Gypsies 1979 No
084 Debbie & Pennie Davies Barbary Allen The Brazil Family - Down By the Old Riverside 2007 No
084 Deborah Packard Barbara Allen Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder 2005 5:27 Yes
084 Debra Cowan, Acie Cargill & Susan Brown Barbara Allen The Songs and Ballads of Hattie Mae Tyler Cargill 2001 4:09 Yes
084 Deirdre Starr Barbara Allen The Long Finger 2005 No
084 Denis Gibbons Barbara Allen Folk Songs Vol 2 1966 2:17 Yes
084 Diane Oxner Barbara Allan Canadian Folk Songs - Chansons Folkloriques du Canada [Canadian Folk Songs: a Centennial Collection] 1967 3:51 Yes
084 Dick Miles Barbara Allen <website> 2007 2:51 Yes
084 Dick Miles Barbara Allen Windy Old Weather 2010 No
084 Dolly Parton Barbara Allen Heartsongs - Live from Home 1994 5:24 Yes
084 Dolores Bink Barbara Allen Watch the Star 1999 4:15 Yes
084 Don Edwards Barbara Allen Last of the Troubadours: Saddle Songs II 2004 6:44 Yes
084 Doris Day Barbara Allen The Formative Years 2000 2:56 Yes
084 Doris Day Barbara Allen Complete Recordings with Les Brown 2001 2:53 Yes
084 Doris Day & Les Brown Barbara Allen Best of Big Bands 2000 2:53 Yes
084 Doris Day & Les Brown and His Orchestra Barbara Allen Sentimental Journey 1995 2:53 Yes
084 Douglas Jimerson Barbara Allen Foster, Gounod, et al .. Lincoln's Favorite Music 1999 2:39 Yes
084 Dr. C.L. Watkins Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :24 Yes
084 Dr. C.L. Watkins Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Duo Cavatina Barbara Allen Songs and Dances of the Americas 2000 3:45 Yes
084 Ed McCurdy Barbara Allen A Ballad Singer's Choice 1957 3:32 Yes
084 Eddie Bond & Josh Ellis Barbara Allen John Brown's Dream 2009 No
084 Eddie Butcher Barbara Allen The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Collection No
084 Eddie Upton Barbara Allen Songs of Somerset Folk 1998 4:19 Yes
084 Eddy Arnold Barbara Allen Wanderin' 1955 3:42 Yes
084 Eddy Arnold & The Notations Barbara Allen The Rockin' "Reed" Recordings 1997 2:40 Yes
084 Eddy Arnold Barbara Allen There's Been a Change in Me - 1951-1955 2008 3:45 Yes
084 Edna Sassor Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Edward Flower & Joel Brown Barbara Allen Chords & Thyme - English Folksongs for Guitar 1994 4:03 Yes
084 Edwin Thomas Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Effie Matthews Barbree Allen The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection No
084 Eleanor Townsend Barbara Allen Townsend Old-Time Fiddle Method 1996 :40 Yes
084 Elizabeth Cronin Barbara Allyn Field Trip 2002 2:15 Yes
084 Elizabeth Cronin Barbara Allen The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin, Irish Traditional Singer: the Complete Song Collection 2000 2:18 Yes
084 Ellis K. Skinner Barbara Allen Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection 1950-1970 6:19 Yes
084 Emily Singleton Barbara Allen From Within 2001 3:13 Yes
084 Emma Briggs Barbara Allen Many a Good Horseman - Traditional Music Making from Mid-Suffolk 1993 No
084 Emmy Rossum Barbara Allen Songcatcher 2001 :43 Yes
084 Emmylou Harris Barbara Allen Songcatcher 2001 4:35 Yes
084 Etta Kilgore Barbry Ellen The Library of Congress No
084 Eugene Judge Barbry Ellen Here Is a Health .. - Songs, Music and Stories of an Ulster Community 1986 No
084 Eunice McAlexander Barbara Allen The Ferrum College Collection 1976-1977 3:47 Yes
084 Evelyn Braid Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Evelyn Estep & Leola Nix Barbara Allen The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection No
084 Ewan MacColl Barbara Allen The Manchester Angel 1966 4:26 Yes
084 Ewan MacColl Barbara Allen Poetry and Song, Vol. 8 1967 No
084 Ewan MacColl Barbry Ellen [English] The Long Harvest, Vol. 4 - Some Traditional Ballads in Their English, Scots and North American Variants 1966 4:38 Yes
084 Ewan MacColl Bawbee Allan - Barbara Allen The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads) - Vol. 1 1961 4:15 Yes 084 Ewan MacColl Bawbee Allan (Bonny Barbara Allen) The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) - Vol. 2 1956 4:41 Yes
084 Ewan MacColl Bawbee Allan (Bonny Barbara Allen) The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) - Vol. 4 [Reissue] 196? No
084 Ewan MacColl Bawbee Allan [Scots] The Long Harvest, Vol. 4 - Some Traditional Ballads in Their English, Scots and North American Variants 1966 3:21 Yes
084 Faeryharper Barbara Allen <website> 2007 :23 Yes
084 Fair Liberty's Call Studio Cast Barb'ra Allen Fair Liberty's Call - A Musical Story of Revolutionary America Based on Traditional Songs 2003 3:03 Yes
084 Faroe Boys Barbara Allen Faroe Boys 2001 2:32 Yes
084 Fleecy Fox Barbara Allen (1) The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs 3:26 Yes
084 Fleecy Fox Barbara Allen (2) The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs 3:37 Yes
084 Florida The Portobello Hornpipe + Barbara Allen Danse Macabre 1999 No
084 Folksmith Barbry Allen <website> 2007 3:26 Yes
084 Frank Hinchliffe Barbara Allen The Horkey Load - English Traditional Singers Vol 2 197? No
084 Frank Hinchliffe Barbara Allen It Was on a Market Day - English Traditional Folk Singers - Vol. 2 2002 No
084 Frank Luther & His Pards Barbara Allen Country Music Pioneers on Edison 2005 3:15 Yes
084 Frank Luther & His Pards Barbara Allen Butcher's Boy/Barbara Allen 1928 3:15 Yes
084 Frankie Armstrong Barbara Allen The Garden of Love 1999 5:37 Yes
084 Fred Bradbury Bonny Barbara Allen <website> 2006 5:10 Yes
084 Fred Carter Concepts Barbara Allen Songs of the British Isles 2000 No
084 Fred Jordan Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Fred Jordan Barbara Allen A Shropshire Lad - English Folk Singer 2003 1:33 Yes
084 Fred Jordan Barbara Allen When the Frost Is on the Pumpkin 1974 1:59 Yes
084 Fred List Barbara Allen Keith Summers Collection 1970-1977 4:07 Yes
084 G. Marston Haddock Barbara Allen Barbara Allen 1944 No
084 Gabrielle Hosler Barbara Allen <website> 2007 3:01 Yes
084 Gaither Carleton Barbara Allen Gaither Carleton - from the Collection of Tom Carter 2010 No
084 Gallowglass Irish Trio Barbara Allen All Our Best 1996 No
084 Gallowglass Irish Trio Barbara Allen No Irish Need Apply 1989 No
084 Gallowglass Irish Trio Barbara Allen Hello - Farewell (An Authorized Bootleg) 1994 No
084 Garrett & Norah Arwood Barbara Allen Far in the Mountains, Vol. 3 & 4 - Songs, Tunes and Stories from Mike Yates' Appalachian Collections 1979-1983 2002 3:58 Yes
084 Gary, Margaret, Megan & Dan MacArthur Barbara Allen Make the Wildwoods Ring 1982 5:25 Yes
084 George Belton Barbara Allen All Jolly Fellows .. 1967 No
084 George Maynard Barbery Allen Reg Hall Archive 1953-1977 2:32 Yes
084 George Roberts Barbara Allen Devon Tradition - an Anthology from Traditional Singers 1977 No
084 George Tucker Barbara Allen George Tucker 1964 No
084 George Vinton Graham Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 George Vinton Graham Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :37 Yes
084 George Vinton Graham Barbara Allen California Gold - Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected By Sidney Robertson Cowell 193? 2:26 Yes
084 George Withers Barbara Allen The Land Remains 2004 No
084 Gerald Aylward Barbara Allen MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada 1951 No
084 Ginny Hawker & Kay Justice Barb'ry Ellen Signs & Wonders - Traditional Appalachian Singing 1990 No
084 Glen Neaves & The Virginia Mountain Boys Barbara Allan Country Bluegrass from Southwest Virginia 1974 4:07 Yes
084 Glenn Gibson Barbara Allen When Times Are Hard 2010 No
084 Goff Burges Barbara Allen Reg Hall Archive 1953-1977 1:29 Yes
084 Golden Ring Barbara Ellen Golden Ring - A Gathering of Friends for Making Music 1964 6:22 Yes
084 Goldmund The Ballad of Barbara Allen All Will Prosper 2011 1:43 Yes
084 Gordeanna McCulloch Bawbie Allan Sheath & Knife - Traditional Songs & Ballads from Scotland 2000 5:13 Yes
084 Gordeanna McCulloch & The Clutha Bawbie Allan Scottish Voices - Great Performances from the Scottish Singing Tradition 1996 5:12 Yes
084 Gordeanna McCulloch & The Clutha Bawbie Allan Celtic Reflections 1998 No
084 Graham McCarthy Barbara Allen Best Loved Folk Songs 1962 3:01 Yes
084 Granny Porter & Wade Ward Barbry Allen Ballads and Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains - Persistence and Change 1968 2:38 Yes
084 Grayson Capps Barbara Allen Live at the Paradiso 2009 No
084 Gus Mahon Barbara Allen The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs 3:13 Yes
084 Guymelanson Barbara Allen <website> 2007 3:30 Yes
084 H.J. Beeker Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 3:16 Yes
084 H.J. Beeker Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 H.L. Terry Barbara Allan The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Harry Adams Barbara Allen Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999 No
084 Harry & Jeanie West Barbara Allen Smoky Mountain Ballads 1956 3:52 Yes
084 Harry List Barbara Allen Young Rambleaway - Seven Suffolk Singers 1975 No
084 Hattie E. Smith Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Hawkshaw Hawkins Barbara Allen Hawkshaw Hawkins 1959 No
084 Hector Campbell Barbara Allan The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Hedy West Barbara Allen Old Times and Hard Times 1967 5:14 Yes
084 Hedy West Barbara Allen Ballads & Songs from the Appalachians 2011 No
084 Henry Reed Barbara Allen Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier - the Henry Reed Collection 1966-1967 1:17 Yes
084 Hermione Swinford Barbara Allen Deep in the Wood 2007 No
084 Hesperus Barbara Allen An Early American Quilt 2007 4:28 Yes
084 Hilary James & Beryl Marriott Barbary Allen Love, Lust and Loss - English, Scottish & Irish Folksongs 1996 6:34 Yes
084 Horton Barker Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :28 Yes
084 Howard Collins Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Hughie Jones Barbary Allen Luv Stuff 1999 No
084 Hule "Queen" Hines Barbara Allen Southern Mosaic - The John & Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip 1939 2:39 Yes
084 Hylo Brown & His Timberliners Barbara Allen Bluegrass Goes to College 1962 No
084 I.D. Stamper Barb'ry Ellen Red Wing 1977 No
084 I.N. (Nick) Marlor Barbara Allan I'm on My Long Journey Home: Vocal Styles and Resources in Folk Music 1978 No
084 I.N. Marlor Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 I.N. Marlor Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 6:02 Yes
084 Isla St. Clair Barbara Allen Royal Lovers & Scandals 2000 4:33 Yes
084 Isla St. Clair Barbara Allen Highland Songs 2004 4:37 Yes
084 Isla St. Clair Barbara Allen Great Songs and Ballads of Scotland 2009 No
084 Isobel Campbell Barbara Ellen O Love Is Teasin' 2006 7:58 Yes
084 J. Stewart + J. Murray + F. Jordan + C. Wills + M. Bennell + A. Bloomfield + B. Westaway + P. Tanner + T. Moran Bonny Barbara Allen The Elfin Knight - The Classic Ballads 1 1976 No
084 James Alan Shelton Barbara Allen Guitar Tracks 2000 No
084 James Baxter Peyton Barbara Allen (1) Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection 1950-1970 2:32 Yes
084 James Baxter Peyton Barbara Allen (2) Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection 1950-1970 4:27 Yes
084 James D. Cornett Barbara Allen Mountain Music of Kentucky 1996 :32 Yes
084 James D. Fairless Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 James Griffett Barbara Allen Will Ye Go to Flanders - Folksongs of the British Isles 1995 No
084 Jamie Hoover Barbra Allen Jamie Hoo-Ever 2004 No
084 Jane & Ireland Barbara Allan Jane & Ireland at Penland 1979 No
084 Jane Turriff Barbara Allen Singin Is Ma Life 1995 4:28 Yes
084 Janet McTeer Barbara Allen Music from the Movie 'Songcatcher' 2000 2:13 Yes
084 Janice Buckner Barbara Allen Renaissance Songs & Ballads 2010 No
084 Jean Jenkins Miss Barbary The Wife of Usher's Well - Mountain Ballads 1976 No
084 Jean Redpath Barbara Allen Songs from the Folk Music Revival in Scotland - Ailie Munro 1984 4:41 Yes
084 Jean Redpath Barbarry Allan First Flight 1992 5:46 Yes
084 Jean Redpath Barbarry Allan Love Is Teasin' 1984 5:51 Yes
084 Jean Redpath Barbarry Allan Jean Redpath's Scottish Ballad Book 1962
No
084 Jean Ritchie Barbary Allen Ballads from Her Appalachian Family Tradition 2003 5:04 Yes
084 Jean Ritchie Barbary Allen The Rose & The Briar - Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad 2004
No
084 Jean Ritchie Barbry Ellen Songs from Kentucky (1) 1953
No
084 Jean Ritchie Barbry Ellen British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains - Child Ballads, Vol 1 1961 5:03 Yes
084 Jean Ritchie Barbry Ellen Field Trip 2002 4:22 Yes
084 Jean Ritchie Barbry Ellen Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways 2002 5:04 Yes
084 Jean Ritchie Barbry Allen The World of Music 2009
No
084 Jean Schilling Barb'ry Ellen Old Traditions 1967 2:19 Yes
084 Jean Wilcox Hibben Barb'ry Allen Songs of Appalachian Ancestors 2008
No
084 Jennifer Rose Barbara Ellen Kentucky Home Tonight 1996
No
084 Jerry Epstein Barbara Allen Time Has Made a Change in Me 1995
No
084 Jerry Reed Barbara Allen Alabama Wild Man + Jerry Reed Explores Guitar Country 2000 3:53 Yes
084 Jessie Murray Barbara Allen 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh 2006
No
084 Jessie Murray Barbara Allen BBC Recordings
No
084 Jessie Murray + Fred Jordan + Charlie Wills + May Bennell + Thomas Moran + Phil Tanner Barbara Allen Classic Ballads of Britain & Ireland - Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales, Vol 1 2000 5:12 Yes
084 Jessie Murray + Fred Jordan + Charlie Wills + May Bennell + Thomas Moran + Phil Tanner Barbara Allen The Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4: The Child Ballads 1 1961 5:10 Yes
084 Jim & Art Barbara Allen Jim and Art Sing and Play a Folk Song 1962 No
084 Jim Clark Barbara Allen Buried Land 2003 6:31 Yes
084 Jim Cleveland Barbary Allan The Gwilym Davies Collection No
084 Jim Moray Barbara Allen Jim Moray 2006 3:51 Yes
084 Jim Moray Barbara Allen Live at Cecil Sharp House, London 2009 4:11 Yes
084 Jim Moray Barbara Allen A Beginner’s Guide 2010 No
084 Jim New (Newton Gaines) Barbara Allen A Walkin' the Streets of Laredo 1929 No
084 Jim Wilson Barbara Allen Four Sussex Singers 1961 No
084 Jim Wilson Barbara Allen Just Another Saturday Night: Sussex 1960 2001 4:37 Yes
084 Jim Wilson Barbara Allen A Catalogue Sampler 2005 No
084 Jimmie Williams Barbara Allen Jimmie Williams Sings 1962 No
084 Jimmy Driftwood Barbara Allen The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs 7:08 Yes
084 Jimmy McBride Barbara Allen Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999 No
084 Jimmy Stewart Barbara Allen Field Trip 2002 2:56 Yes
084 Jo Stafford Barbara Allen Jo Stafford Sings American Folk Songs 1977 2:55 Yes
084 Joan Baez Barbara Allen Joan Baez, Vol. 2 2001 4:16 Yes
084 Joan Baez Barbara Allen The Joan Baez Ballad Book 1972 4:09 Yes
084 Joan Baez Barbara Allen Songs of the USA 1965 4:09 Yes
084 Joan Baez Barbara Allen It Ain't Me Babe, Vol 2 1995 4:16 Yes
084 Joan Baez Barbara Allen American Folk Singers and Balladeers - The Classics Record Library 1964 4:13 Yes
084 Joan Baez & Grateful Dead Barbara Allen Live at Fiesta Hall, San Mateo County Fairgrounds 1981 6:14 Yes
084 Joan O'Bryant Sweet William Died Folksongs and Ballads of Kansas 1957 No
084 Jody Stecher Barbary Ellen Oh the Wind and Rain - Eleven Ballads 1999 12:43 Yes
084 Joe Heaney [Seosamh Ó hÉanaí] Barbary Ellen The Road from Connemara: Songs and Stories Told and Sung to Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger 2000 5:31 Yes
084 Joel Frederiksen & Ensemble Phoenix Munich Barbara Ellen The Elfin Knight - Ballads and Dances 2007 7:25 Yes
084 Joel Mabus The Cowboy's Barb'ry Allen Six of One 2001 4:59 Yes
084 John Ban Byrne Barbara Allen The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Collection No
084 John Byrne Barbara Allen Early Ballads in Ireland 1968-1985 1985 5:56 Yes
084 John Denver Barbara Allen The John Denver Show 1973 3:26 Yes
084 John Hughes Barbry Allen The Voice of the People, Vol. 22: I'm a Romany Ray - Songs by Southern English Gypsy Traditional Singers 2012 No
084 John Jacob Niles Barb'ry Ellen The Ballads of John Jacob Niles 1960 4:18 Yes
084 John Jacob Niles The Ballad of Barberry Ellen John Jacob Niles Sings American Folk Songs 1956 No
084 John Jacob Niles The Ballad of Barberry Ellen My Precarious Life in the Public Domain [Folk Balladeer] 2006 5:13 Yes
084 John Jacob Niles The Ballad of Barberry Ellen Child Ballads 2008 No
084 John Jacob Niles The Ballad of Barberry Allen, Pt. 1 Early American Ballads 1938 No
084 John Jacob Niles The Ballad of Barberry Allen, Pt. 2 Early American Ballads 1938 No
084 John McDermott Barbara Allan When I Grow Too Old to Dream [Shamrocks & Heather] 1997 4:36 Yes
084 John Roberts & Tony Barrand Barbara Allen Mellow with Ale from the Horn 1975 3:32 Yes
084 John Ross Barbara Allen The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 John Travolta Barbara Allen A Love Song for Bobby Long - Original Soundtrack 2005 1:02 Yes
084 John Waltham Barbara Allen Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999 No
084 John Wright & Catherine Perrier Barbara Ellen Live on Radio France, 1990 1990 3:56 Yes
084 Johnny Doughty Barbara Allen Round Rye Bay for More - Traditional Songs from the Sussex Coast 1977 2:24 Yes
084 Jon Boden Barbara Allen A Folk Song a Day - June 2011 5:23 Yes
084 Joseph McCafferty Barbara Allen The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Collection No
084 Josh White Barbara Allen From New York to London - The Classic Recordings 2002 3:14 Yes
084 Josh White Barbara Allen American Folk Anthology - Volume One 2001 3:03 Yes
084 Judy Collins Barbara Allen Both Sides Now 1998 4:32 Yes
084 Judy Collins Barbara Allen Send in the Clowns 1999 4:32 No
084 Judy Collins Barbara Allen Classic Folk 2000 4:32 Yes
084 Judy Collins Barbara Allen Greatest Folk Songs 2011 4:30 Yes
084 Judy Cook Barbara Ellen If You Sing Songs .. - Unaccompanied Songs & Ballads 1998 6:50 Yes
084 June Tabor Barbry Ellen Rosa Mundi 2001 5:43 Yes
084 Justine Ariel The Ballad of Barbara Ellen Landscape Tones 2007 9:23 Yes
084 Kallen Esperian & The Memphis Vocal Arts Ensemble Barbara Allen American Treasure 1999 3:34 Yes
084 Kamiak High School Barbara Allen Choir Concert Fall 2007 2007 3:03 Yes
084 Karen Long & Robin Kessinger Barbry Allen What We Do - A Live Recording 2008 No
084 Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton Barbara Allen Summer's Lonesome Tale 2008 3:01 Yes
084 Kathleen Danson Read Bonny Barbara Allen Spoken Literature of Early English Ballads 1956 1:59 Yes
084 Kathryn Roberts Barbara Allen Intuition 1996 3:27 Yes
084 Kathryn Roberts Child's Song - Barbara Allen Cecil Sharp Project 2011 2011 4:45 Yes
084 Kathy Lowe Barbara Allen Kathy 1973 3:54 Yes
084 Kay Justice & Ginny Hawker Barb'ry Allan Signs and Wonders - Traditional Appalachian Singing 1990 3:56 Yes
084 Kevin Roth Barbara Ellen Dulcimer World 2004 1:22 Yes
084 Kim Robertson Barbara Allen + Hole in the Wall Shady Grove - Traditional Music of North America Performed on Celtic Harp 2009 4:06 Yes
084 Kirobaito Barbara Allen <website> 2007 5:57 Yes
084 Kitty Ritchie Singleton Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :45 Yes
084 LaRena Clark Barbara Allen The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Laura Cortese & Jefferson Hamer Barbara Ellen Two Amps, One Microphone 2010 No
084 Lee Pompey Barbra Allen The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 6:49 Yes
084 Len Squires Barbara Ellen Dandelions 2008 No
084 Lena Bourne Fish Barbara Allen Whiskey in the Jar 1987 No
084 Lena Bourne Fish Barbara Allen (1) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Lena Bourne Fish Barbara Allen (2) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Lena Bourne Fish Barbara Allen (3) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Leza Mesiah Barbra Allen The Moor of Dundee 2002 4:00 Yes
084 Liam Weldon Barbary Allen Dark Horse on the Wind 1976 5:32 Yes
084 Lilian Napier Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Linda Sigismondi Barbara Allen Appalachian Ballads and Songs for the Mountain Dulcimer Companion CD 2005 No
084 Lionel Long Barbara Allen Troubadour [Folk Songs of the British Isles] 1965 3:48 Yes
084 Logan English Barb'ry Allen All the Folk There Is - Recorded Live at the American Hootenanny Festival 1964 4:26 Yes
084 Lois & Nathan Judd Barbara Allen (1) Voices from the Dust Bowl 1940-1941 1:38 Yes
084 Lois & Nathan Judd Barbara Allen (2) Voices from the Dust Bowl 1940-1941 :49 Yes
084 Lois Judd & Rosetta Spainhard Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Lois Judd & Rosetta Spainhard Barbara Allen Voices from the Dust Bowl 1940-1941 2:52 Yes
084 Lois Lane Barbara Allen Folk and All That Jazz 2007 2:48 Yes
084 Lolly Cross & Friends Barbara Allen Celtic Memories 2007 No
084 Loretto Reid & Dan Gibson Barbara Allen Celtic Reverie 2003 2:49 Yes
084 Louis Killen Barbara Allan The Rose in June 2001 4:07 Yes
084 Lucy Stewart Barbary Allen (Barbara Allen) Lucy Stewart: Traditional Singer from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Vol. 1 - Child Ballads 1961 3:04 Yes
084 Lucy Wainwright Roche Barbara Allen Old Wine New Skins 2007 No
084 Luke Cheevers Barbara Allen Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999 No
084 Lydia McCauley Barbara Allan ForeignLander 2004 4:43 Yes
084 Mac Wiseman Barbara Allen 24 Greatest Hits 1987 5:10 Yes
084 Mac Wiseman Barbara Allen 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered - Complete Recordings 1951-1964 2003 No
084 Maighread & Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill Barbara Allen A Celtic Christmas: Peace on Earth - The Millennium Edition 1999 6:33 Yes 084 Mairéad Ní Dhomhnaill Barbara Allen Mairéad Ní Dhomhnaill 1976 7:33 Yes
084 Mairéad Ní Dhomhnaill Barbara Allen Sailing Into Walpole's Marsh 1981 6:56 Yes
084 Mand-Lin Barbra Allen Civil War 2007 1:07 Yes
084 Marcille Wallis Barbara Allen A Celtic Heriitage 2004 2:45 Yes
084 Margaret Nelson Barbr'y Allen What Fond Delight 1989 3:59 Yes
084 Marien Dorleijn The Ballad of Barbara Allen Traditionals 2011 3:02 Yes
084 Marijan & Stoman Barbara Allen My Heart's Home - Collaborations 2005 4:32 Yes
084 Martha Martin Barbara Allen Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection 1950-1970 4:31 Yes
084 Marti Rogers Barbara Allen Plain and Fancy 2004 6:49 Yes
084 Martin Carthy Barbara Allen Song Links - A Celebration of English Traditional Songs and Their Australian Variants 2003 5:07 Yes
084 Martin Carthy Barbary Ellen Signs of Life 1998 6:39 Yes
084 Martin Jones Hard-Hearted Barb'ra Helen Dished Up for Piano - Percy Grainger - The Complete Piano Music 2003 No
084 Martin Simpson Barbry Allen Purpose & Grace 2011 6:46 Yes
084 Mary & Cora Davis Barbary Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :27 Yes
084 Mary & Cora Davis Barbary Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mary Humphreys & Anahata Barbrie Ellen Song Links 2 - A Celebration of English Traditional Songs and Their American Variants 2005 5:37 Yes
084 Mary Humphreys & Anahata Barb'ry Ellen Sharp Practice - Rarities and Renovations from the English Tradition 2003 5:34 Yes
084 Mary Jane Queen Barbara Allen Songs I Like 2004 No
084 Mary Knickle Barbara Allen Who Will Take the Throne? 1992 5:02 Yes
084 Mary McPartlan Barbara Allen Petticoat Loose 2008 4:08 Yes
084 Mary Swain Barbara Allen Tapioca's Big Toe - Traditions & Customs of Tristan De Cunha (S. Atlantic) 1977 No
084 Matt Brown Barbara Allen Lone Prairie 2006 4:47 Yes
084 Matt Norman One Night as I Lay on My Bed + Barbara Allen Eight Days Late - English Music for Mandolin 2006 No
084 Matthew Sabatella & The Rambling String Band Barbara Allen Songs in the Life of Abraham Lincoln - Ballad of America Volume 3 2009 No
084 Max Hunter Barbra Allen The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 6:05 Yes
084 Maxine Sullivan Barbara Allen It's Wonderful 2007 No
084 Maxine Sullivan Barbara Allen The Chronical Maxine Sullivan 1938-1941 1998 No
084 Maxine Sullivan Barbara Allen The 1950s - Swinging Miss Loch Lomond 1952-1959 2004 No
084 May Kennedy McCord Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 1:21 Yes
084 May Kennedy McCord Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Maynard Raynolds Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Meg Baird The Cruelty of Barbry Allen Dear Companion 2007 6:29 Yes
084 Meg Baird, Helena Espvall & Sharron Kraus Barbry Ellen Leaves from Off the Tree 2006 5:48 Yes
084 Megan McInnis & Chris Chapman Barbry Allen The Demon Lover 1997 No
084 Melvin Winkler (Wrinkles) Barbra Allen The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 3:09 Yes
084 Merle Travis Barbara Allen Folk Songs of the Hills 1996 4:04 Yes
084 Merle Travis Barbara Allen Folk Songs of the Hills - Back Home + Songs of the Coalmines 1993 4:02 Yes
084 Merritt Herring Barbara Allan Precious Memories 199? No
084 Michael Hurley Barbara Allen Sweetkorn 2002 4:25 Yes
084 Michael Raven & Joan Mills Barbara Ellen Songs and Dances of Herefordshire 1996 No
084 Mike Anderson & Royce Jones Barbara Allen A Baker's Dozen 1995 No
084 Mike Redway Barbara Allen Those Beautiful Ballad Years 2007 3:10 Yes
084 Mikeen McCarthy Barbara Allen Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie Collection No
084 Milt Okun Barbara Allen Folk Song Kit [How to Play Folk Guitar] 1958 No
084 Miss Bessie Littrell Barbara Allen The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection No
084 Miss Walker Barbara Allen The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Misty River Barbara Ellen Stories 2007 6:00 Yes
084 Misty River Barbara Ellen Victory Music - A Northwest Acoustic Celebration, Vol. 2 2009 No
084 Mitzie Collins Barbara Allen A Sampler of Folk Music 1976 4:41 Yes
084 Moira Cameron Barbara Allen Lilies Among the Bushes 1997 No
084 Moira Cannon Barbara Allen The Singing Silkie 2011 No
084 Molly Andrews Barbara Allen Live at the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music 1982-1997 3:38 Yes
084 Molly Bowlin Barbara Allen Live at Mountain Empire Community College, Wise, Virginia 1973 4:54 Yes
084 Molly Galbraith Barbara Allen A Folksong Portrait of Canada - Un Portrait Folklorique 1994 3:47 Yes
084 Molly Galbraith Barbara Allen Folksongs of Saskatchewan 1963 No
084 Monroe Gevedon Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :55 Yes
084 Monroe Gevedon Barbara Allen (excerpt) Kay Kaufman Shelemay - Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World 2001 :53 Yes
084 Moore & Napier Barbara Allen The Best of King & Starday Bluegrass 2004 No
084 Mose (Clear Rock) Platt Barbara Allen Field Recordings, Vol. 6: Texas, 1933-1958 1998 3:27 Yes
084 Moses (Clear Rock) Platt Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 3:17 Yes
084 Moses (Clear Rock) Platt Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mother Maybelle Carter Barbara Allen Mother Maybelle Carter 1951 No
084 Mountain Hoodoo Barbara Allen All Natural Ingredients 2008 No
084 Mr. & Mrs. Barry Sutterfield Barbry Ellen The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 6:02 Yes
084 Mr. & Mrs. Berry Sutterfield Barbara Allen (1) The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs 5:38 Yes
084 Mr. & Mrs. Berry Sutterfield Barbara Allen (2) The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs 7:53 Yes
084 Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Hicks Barbry Ellen The Library of Congress No
084 Mr. Rew Barbara Allen Field Trip - England 1959 No
084 Mrs. Alice Isringhouse Barbara Allen The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs 6:48 Yes
084 Mrs. Annie Mae Mauldin Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Arlington Fraser Barbara Allen The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Mrs Buchan Bull Barbara Allen The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Mrs. C.S. MacClellan Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Carrie Walker Barbry Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Cora Burgess & Mrs. George L. White Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Dave Trayner (Sarah Hutchinson) Barbara Allen The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Mrs. Eileen McGrath Bonny Barbara Allan The Helen Creighton Collection No
084 Mrs. Ellen M. Sullivan Barbara Allen (1) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Mrs. Ellen M. Sullivan Barbara Allen (2) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Mrs. Ellen M. Sullivan Barbara Allen (3) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Mrs. Emma Dusenbury Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 5:07 Yes
084 Mrs. Emma Dusenbury Barbara Allen (1) The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Emma Dusenbury Barbara Allen (2) The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Eva Bigrow Barbara Allen The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Mrs. G.A. Griffin Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :16 Yes
084 Mrs. G.A. Griffin Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Goldie Hamilton Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Hallie May Preece Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Hattie Wilson Barbara Allen (1) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Mrs. Hattie Wilson Barbara Allen (2) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Mrs. Hettie Swindel Barbry Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. J.U. Newman Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. John Fairbanks Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Mrs. L.L. McDowell Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :35 Yes
084 Mrs. L.L. McDowell Barbara Allen (1) The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. L.L. McDowell Barbara Allen (2) The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs Lyall Barbara Allan (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Mrs Lyall Barbara Allan (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Mrs. M. Bennell Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Mrs M. Hastie Barbara Allan The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Mrs. Mary Bailey Bonny Barbara Allan The Helen Creighton Collection No
084 Mrs. Mary Franklin Farmer Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 3:38 Yes
084 Mrs. Mary Franklin Farmer Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Mary Sullivan Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 1:11 Yes
084 Mrs. Mary Sullivan Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Mary Sullivan Barbara Ellen Voices from the Dust Bowl 1940-1941 1:12 Yes
084 Mrs. Mary Wall Barbara Allen The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Collection No
084 Mrs. Mattie Wueen Turner Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Michael Mulcahy Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Mrs. Mildred Gravett Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Minnie Floyd Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Minnie Molloy Barbara Allen The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Mrs. Minta Morgan Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Nettie Huddleston Barnes Barbara Allen The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs 2:38 Yes
084 Mrs. Ollie Womble Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :41 Yes
084 Mrs. Ollie Womble Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. R. Jones Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Sam "Iva" Haslett Barbra Allen The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 5:26 Yes
084 Mrs. T.M. Bryant Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :37 Yes
084 Mrs. T.M. Bryant Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Theodosia Bennett Long Barbry Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Tom Sullivan Barbara Allen The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Mrs. Vera Keating Barbara Allen (1) The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Mrs. Vera Keating Barbara Allen (2) The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Mrs. Vera Kilgore Barbry Ellen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Virginia Meade Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. W.L. Martin Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :20 Yes
084 Mrs. W.L. Martin Barbry Ellen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. W.L. Martin Barby Ellen The Library of Congress No
084 Mrs. Washington Tattrie Barbara Allan The Helen Creighton Collection No
084 Muckram Wakes Barbry Allen <broadcast> - 5:51 Yes
084 Munroe Gevedon Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan Barbara Allen Strands of Gold 2006 3:50 Yes
084 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan Barbara Allen Sheffield Folk Festival 2007 2007 4:40 Yes
084 Nashville Fiddles Barbara Allen Nashville Fiddles Play Their 100 Best 2006 No
084 Nashville Mandolins Barbara Allen Nashville Mandolins Play Their 100 Best 2006 No
084 Nathan Hatt Barbara Allan The Helen Creighton Collection No
084 Nic Jones Barbara Ellen Unearthed 2001 6:44 Yes
084 Nic Jones Barbri Ellen Glasgow Broadside Ballads - The Murray Collection 4:45 Yes
084 Nimrod Workman Barbara Allen I Want to Go Where Things Are Beautiful 2008 No
084 Norma Waterson Barbary Allen Bright Shiny Morning 2000 5:49 Yes
084 Norma Waterson Barbary Allen Simply Folk - 4 CDs of Essential Folk Songs 2007 No
084 Norman Candler & Magic Strings Barbara Allen Moonlight Party 1973 2:20 Yes
084 North Cregg Barbara Allen The Roseland Barndance 2007 4:17 Yes
084 O.B. Campbell Barbra Allen The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 2:30 Yes
084 Oliie Gilbert Barbara Allen The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs 2:37 Yes
084 Ollie Gilbert Barbry Ellen The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 2:36 Yes
084 Orlon Merrill Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Osborne Smith Barbara Allen The Eyes of Love 1960 No
084 Oscar (Doc) Parks Barb'ry Allen Singing About It - Folk Song in Southern Indiana By George List - Accompanying Cassette 1991 No
084 Oscar Brand Barbara Allan Songs of Rebels and Redcoats 1976 No
084 Oscar Degreenia Mary Alling (1) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Oscar Degreenia Mary Alling (2) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Oscar Parks Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Oscar Parks Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :31 Yes
084 Osian Ellis Barbara Allen The Jupiter Book of Ballads 1962 2:45 Yes
084 Packie Byrne Barbara Allen Packie Byrne 1969 No
084 Paddy Keenan Barbara Allen Paddy Keenan 1975 2:34 Yes
084 Pamela Goddard Barbara Allen As Time Draws Near - Traditional American Songs from the North and the South 2006 No
084 Pamela Hunt Bonny Barbara Allan Mountain Flower - A Dulcimer Sampler 2000 6:03 Yes
084 Patrick Gainer Barbara Allan Folk Songs of the Alleghenies 1963 No
084 Patsy Flynn Barbara Allen The Hardy Sons of Dan - Football, Hunting and Other Traditional Songs from Around Lough Erne's Shore 2004 No
084 Paul Boruff Barbara Allen Ballads Old and New 2006 No
084 Paul Boruff Barbara Allen Old West Ballads 2006 5:03 Yes
084 Paul & Liz Davenport Barbary Ellen Songbooks 2008 No
084 Paul (B.) McCoy Barbary Ellen Allegheny Trails - The Plucked Dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer and Musical Saw Album 1975 No
084 Paul Lansky Barbara Allen Folk Images 1995 No
084 Paula Robison & Eliot Fisk Barbara Allen Mountain Songs - A Cycle of American Folk Music 1994 No
084 Peggy Donaldson Smith Barbara Allen Shady Grove 1978 No
084 Peggy Seeger Barbara Allen Cold Snap - Traditional & Contemporary Songs and Ballads 1978 No
084 Peggy Seeger Barbry Allan [American] The Long Harvest, Vol. 4 - Some Traditional Ballads in Their English, Scots and North American Variants 1966 5:38 Yes
084 Pete Castle Barbara Allen Poor Old Horse 2008 No
084 Pete Lashley Barbara Allen It All Comes Round 2010 No
084 Pete Seeger Barbara Allen God Bless the Grass 1998 1:09 Yes
084 Pete Seeger Barbara Allen American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2 [2003] 2003 2:51 Yes
084 Pete Seeger Barbara Allen Clearwater Classics 1995 4:31 Yes
084 Pete Seeger Barbara Allen American Ballads 1957 2:58 Yes
084 Pete Seeger Barbara Allen The Bitter and the Sweet - Recorded in Person at the Bitter End 1962 5:06 Yes
084 Pete Seeger Barbara Allen Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits 2002 4:30 Yes
084 Pete Seeger Barbara Allen American Folk Anthology [Pete Seeger] 2008 2:51 Yes
084 Pete Seeger Barbara Allen America's Musical Landscape 2009 No
084 Peter & Gordon Barbara Allen In Touch with Peter & Gordon 1997 2:51 Yes
084 Peter Breiner & Don Gillis Barbara Allen Romance - Selections Inspired By Emmy Award Winning Anne of Green Gables 2005 No
084 Peter Breiner & Don Gillis Barbara Allen Celtic - Selections Inspired By Emmy Award Winning Anne of Green Gables 2005
No
084 Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson & Kate Early Barbary Allen Return No More 2002 3:07 Yes
084 Phil Henry Barbara Allen Folk 2.0 2007 No
084 Phil Tanner Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Phil Tanner Barbara Allen The Gower Nightingale - Ballads, Songs and Mouth Music from South Glamorgan Recorded in the 1930s & 40s 2003 2:32 Yes
084 Phil Tanner Barbara Allen Phil Tanner 1968 2:29 Yes
084 Phil Tanner Barbara Ellen The Great Man of Gower 1975 No
084 Philip Kazee Barbara Allen A Family Tradition 2010 No
084 Phillis Marks Barbary Allan The Gwilym Davies Collection No
084 Phoebe Smith Barbara Allan The Yellow Handkerchief 1998 11:03 Yes
084 Phoebe Smith Barbara Allen Songs of the Open Road 1975 No
084 Phyllis Martin Barbara Allan Glasgow Broadside Ballads - The Murray Collection 4:02 Yes
084 Phyllis Zimmerman Barbara Allen (1) The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Phyllis Zimmerman Barbara Allen (2) The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Poussières D'Etoiles Barbara Allen Svasck, Perret, Starck 2008 No
084 Q. Carl Roberts Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Queen Caroline Hughes Barbara Allen The Song Carriers - Part 10 1965 3:06 Yes
084 Ray Hawks Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Ray Hawks Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :19 Yes
084 Raymond Crooke Barbara Allen <website> 2007 4:51 Yes
084 Raymond Crooke Barbara Allen (2) <website> 2007 7:14 Yes
084 Raymond Crooke Barbara Allen Pigs Might Fly and Other Politically Incorrect Ballads 2007 No
084 Rebecca King Jones Barbara Allen The House Carpenter 1987 No
084 Rebecca King Jones Barbara Allen The Warner Collection, Vol. 1 - Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still 2000 1:00 Yes
084 Rebecca Tarwater Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Rebecca Tarwater Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :27 Yes
084 Rebecca Tarwater Barbara Allen The Library of Congress - Archive of Folk Culture: Anglo-American Ballads, Vol. 1 1999 2:30 Yes
084 Registrar Barbara Allan The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Richard Dyer-Bennet Barbara Allen Richard Dyer-Bennet Vol. 5 2001 4:19 Yes
084 Robbie Lee Barbry Allen Sleep, Memory 2006 No
084 Robert Chattwynd Barbery Allan The Helen Creighton Collection No
084 Robin Hall Bawbie Allen Last Leaves of Traditional Ballads 1960 No
084 Rosa Day Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Rosa Hicks Barbry Allen On the Threshold of a Dream - Unaccompanied Singing from the Blue Ridge Mountains 2010 No
084 Roscoe Holcomb Barbara Allen Blues An Untamed Sense of Control 2003 1:30 Yes
084 Rose Laughlin Barbara Allen The Chicago Sessions 2008 No
084 Rosie Day Barbara Ellen (Barbara Allen) American Folk Song Festival - Jean Thomas, the Traipsin' Woman 1960 2:56 Yes
084 Ross Kennedy & Archie MacAllister Barbara Allan Twisted Fingers 1994 3:16 Yes
084 Roy Harris Barbry Allen Folk Festival - A Celebration of Music Recorded at the Sidmouth International Festival 2005 5:08 Yes
084 Ruby Canupp Barbara Allen The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection No
084 Ruth Welcome Barbara Allen Café Continental 2006 No
084 Sade Garland Barbara Allen The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection No
084 Sam Bennett Barbara Allan The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Sam Larner Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Sam Larner Barbara Allen A Garland for Sam 1974 3:31 Yes
084 Sam Larner Barbary Ellen Sailin' Over the Dogger Bank 1975 No
084 Samuel Harmon Barbry Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :23 Yes
084 Samuel Harmon Barbry Ellen The Library of Congress No
084 Sangsters Barbara Allan Sharp and Sweet 2001 4:57 Yes
084 Sara Grey Barbara Allen A Long Way from Home 2005 3:53 Yes
084 Sara Jo Bell Barbry Ellen The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 1:46 Yes
084 Sara Jo Fendley Barbara Allen Sounds of the Ozark Folk - The 1963 Arkansas Folk Festival 2002 2:19 Yes
084 Sarah Hook Barbara Allen Tenpenny 2010 No
084 Sarah Makem Barbara Allen As I Roved Out (Field Trip-Ireland) 1960 No
084 Sarah Makem Barbara Allen The Voice of the People, Vol. 17: It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day - Ballads 1998 6:55 Yes
084 Sarah Makem Barbara Allen Ancient Celtic Roots 1996 6:55 Yes
084 Sarah Makem Barbara Allen Celtic Reflections 1998 No
084 Sarah Makem Barbara Allen Mrs. Sarah Makem, Ulster Ballad Singer 1968 No
084 Sarah Makem Barbara Allen The Voice of the People, Vol. 24: Sarah Makem - the Heart Is True 2012 No
084 Sarah Moore Barbara Allen Celtic Ladies 2006 3:53 Yes
084 Sarah Moore Barbara Allen The Sound of England - World Music Vol. 18 2009 No
084 Scan Tester Barbara Allan I Never Played to Many Posh Dances - Sussex Musician 1887-1972 1991 No
084 Seannachie Barbara Allen The Devil's Delight 1992 3:21 Yes
084 Seena Helms Barbara Allen Hand-Me-Down Music - Old Songs, Old Friends, Vol. 2, Traditional Music of Union County, North Carolina 1979 No
084 Sergeant Early's Dream [Incantation] Barbara Allen Sergeant Early's Dream/Ghost Dances 1994 7:06 Yes
084 Shanna Beth McGee & David Johnson Barbara Allen Love Is Teasing - Scottish and English Early Ballads 1980 4:16 Yes
084 Sharon Isbin Fantasia - Once I Had a Sweetheart + Rambler Gambler + Barbara Allen Journey to the New World 2009 2:31 Yes
084 Sheila Kay Adams Barbary Allen My Dearest Dear 2002 4:30 Yes
084 Sheri Bauer-Mayorga & Lincoln Mayorga Barbara Ellen American Snapshots - 200 Years of American Song 2007 No
084 Sherry Minnick Barbara Allen Look Ma, No Hands 2006 No
084 Shirley Collins Barbara Allen The Power of the True Love Knot 2000 3:26 Yes
084 Shirley Collins Barbara Allen Sweet England 1999 3:20 Yes
084 Shirley Collins Barbara Allen Beginner's Guide to Folk Music 2003 No
084 Silent Voices Barbry Allen Wood, Wind and Wire 2001 No
084 Silver Thread Trio Barbara Allen Silver Thread Trio 2008 No
084 Simon & Garfunkel Barbriallen The Columbia Studio Recordings 1964-1970 2001 4:06 Yes
084 Slim Dusty & Joy McKeanon Barb'ry Allen An Evening with Slim and Joy 1966 No
084 Stanley Hicks Barbara Allen Far in the Mountains, Vol. 1 & 2 - Songs, Tunes and Stories from Mike Yates' Appalachian Collections 1979-1983 2002 1:29 Yes
084 Stephen Pollock Barbara Allen So Near, So Far 2005 1:31 Yes
084 Steve Goodall Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Steve Goodall Barbary Ellen Three Maidens A-Milking - Songs from Hampshire 1985 No
084 Steve Tilston Barbry Allen Of Many Hands - from the Tradition 2005 5:43 Yes
084 Steven Barlow Barbara Allen The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
084 Stonecross (Croscloiche) Barbara Allen Dark Irish 2005 5:08 Yes
084 Sue West Barbara Allen The Soil and the Stream 2009 No
084 Summer School Singer Barbara Allan (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Summer School Singer Barbara Allan (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Sunshine Robinson Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :21 Yes
084 Susan Glaser & Karl Paulnack Barbara Allen Mountain Songs 2002 No
084 Susan Reed Barbara Allen O Love Is Teasin' - Anglo-American Mountain Balladry 1985 4:04 Yes
084 Susan Reed Barbara Allen Susan Reed 1957 4:11 Yes
084 T.M. Bryant Barbara Allen (excerpt) Kay Kaufman Shelemay - Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World 2001 :34 Yes
084 Tanya Brody Barbara Allen Sirens & Lovers 2003 5:47 Yes
084 Taylor (clarke41) Barbara Allen <website> 2007 3:38 Yes
084 Ted Ashlaw Barbara Allen Adirondack Woods Singer 1976 3:21 Yes
084 Ted Heath Barbara Allen The Instruments of the Dance Orchestra + Olde Englyshe 2000 No
084 Tex Ritter Barbara Allen Blood on the Saddle 1959 No
084 Texas Gladden Barbara Allen Ballad Legacy 2001 4:49 Yes
084 The Beggar Boys Barbara Allen Salem's Musick - Songs and Dances of the Puritans 2007 No
084 The Boothe Family Barbara Allen The Ferrum College Collection 1976 - 2:02 Yes
084 The Boston Camerata & Joel Cohen Il Est Venu Le Petit Oysillon/An Jenem Tag, Nach Davids Sag/Barbara Allen/Heavenly Dove New Britain: The Roots of American Folksong 1989 2:48 Yes
084 The Bray Brothers & Red Cravens Barbara Allen Prairie Bluegrass -- Early Days of Bluegrass 1976 2:26 Yes
084 The Cadet Quartet Barbara Allen The Voices of Westpoint 1958 No
084 The Clinton String Quartet Barbara Allen American Masters for the 21st Century 2004 3:54 Yes
084 The Crewcuts Barbara Allen The Crew Cuts Sing Folk 1963 No
084 The Everly Brothers Barbara Allen 20 Golden Love Songs 1985 4:43 Yes
084 The Everly Brothers Barbara Allen Songs Our Father Taught Us 1995 4:43 Yes
084 The Everly Brothers Barbara Allen Bye Bye Love 2009 4:43 Yes
084 The Everly Brothers For the Love of Barbara Allen The Price of Love 2006 1:19 Yes
084 The Everly Brothers For the Love of Barbara Allen Live 2002 1:20 Yes
084 The Everly Brothers Barbara Allen The Complete Cadence Recordings 1957-1960 2001 No
084 The Folksinger Barbara Allen <website> 2008- 6:20 Yes
084 The Gant Family Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 The Gant Family Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :20 Yes
084 The Grail Singers Sweet William The Grail Singers Sing Folk Songs from .. 1959 2:56 Yes
084 The Hamilton Temple Band Barbara Allen Marching to Glory 1994 2:01 Yes
084 The Handsome Family Barbara Allen Straight Outta Boone County 1997 4:18 Yes
084 The Hare and the Moon Barbara Allen The Hare and the Moon 2009 5:11 Yes
084 The High Strange Drifters Barbara Allen Ancient Tones and Death Knells - Broadside Ballads 2003 6:07 Yes
084 The Hillmen Barbara Allen The Hillmen 1995 3:14 Yes
084 The King's Noyse Barbara Allen Kay Kaufman Shelemay - Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World 2001 6:56 Yes
084 The King's Noyse Barbara Allen's Cruelty Royal Delight - 17th C. Ballads & Dances [The King's Delight + The Queen's Delight] 2005 6:57 Yes
084 The King's Singers Barbara Allen Watching the White Wheat - Folk Songs of the British Isles 1986 3:34 Yes
084 The Lilly Bros. & Don Stover Barbara Allen Folk Songs from Southern Mountains [Bluegrass at the Roots] 1961 6:53 Yes
084 The McPeak Brothers Barbara Allen Bend in the River 1978 3:18 Yes
084 The Mutineers Barbara Allen Coal Creek 2008 No
084 The New Christy Minstrels Jimmy Grove and Barbara Ellen Tell Tall Tales! Legends and Nonsense 1963 4:49 Yes
084 The New Christy Minstrels Jimmy Grove and Barbara Ellen Folk Classics - Roots of American Folk Music 1999 4:52 Yes
084 The New Christy Minstrels Jimmy Grove and Barbara Ellen The Definitive New Christy Minstrels 1998 4:51 Yes
084 The New Lost City Ramblers Barbara Allen 20th Anniversary Concert 1993 4:54 Yes
084 The New Lost City Ramblers Barbara Allen Old Timey Songs for Children 1959 3:17 Yes
084 The Roger Wagner Chorale Barbara Allen Folk Songs of the Old World 1956 No
084 The Scholars Barbara Allen Annie Laurie - English Folk Songs 1981 3:18 Yes
084 The Spinners Barbara Allen 16 Star Tracks by the Spinners 1967 No
084 The Vagabonds Barbara Allen Barbara Allen 1934 No
084 The Vagabonds Barbara Allen Old Cabin Songs 2005 No
084 The Waterboys Barbara Allen Cloud of Sound 2012 3:58 Yes
084 The Wilburn Brothers Barbara Allen Folk Songs 1962 4:38 Yes
084 The Yetties Barbara Allen In Praise of Dorset 1997 No
084 Thomas Baynes Barbara Ellen The Lark in the Morning 1996 4:13 Yes
084 Thomas Moran Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Thomas Moran Mary Ellen BBC Recordings No
084 Thurman Pugh Barbara Allan 28th Annual Galax Old Fiddlers Convention Galax, Virginia 1963 1963 No
084 Tim Grimm Barbara Allen Names 2004 5:11 Yes
084 Timothy Seaman Heavenly Dove (Barbara Allen) + Feathered Dove (Solitude in the Grove) Virginia Wildlife 2004 No
084 Tom & Barbara Brown Barbara Allen Tide of Change 2006 No
084 Tom Glazer & Pat Moffitt Barbara Allen The Musical Heritage of America 1973 4:51 Yes
084 Tom Rush Barb'ry Allen Blues, Songs and Ballads 1989 6:41 Yes
084 Tom Rush Barb'ry Allen The Prestige/Folklore Years, Vol. 1: All Kinds of Folks 1995 6:41 Yes
084 Tommy Faile Barbara Allen 200 Years of American Heritage in Song - Country Folk Bluegrass: 100 Classics 1999 5:09 Yes
084 Tony Barrand & Keith Murphy Barbara Allen On the Banks of Coldbrook - Atwood Family Songs from the Hills of Vermont 2010 No
084 Tony Rose Barbry Ellen Fylde Folk Festival '83 1983 5:08 Yes
084 Tony Thomas Barbara Allen Old Style Texas and Oklahoma Fiddling 195? No
084 Treasa Ní Cheannnabáin Barbrellen Ireland: The Art of Sean-Nós 1999 4:34 Yes
084 Twilo Scofield Barbry Allen Garden Songs and Legends 2004 No
084 Unidentified Singer Barbra Allen The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection No
084 Unknown Barbara Allen The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Unknown Gypsy from Canterbury Barbary Allen (fragment) The Song Carriers - Part 1 1965 1:16 Yes
084 Unknown Male Babara Allen Collection Universelle De Musique Populaire Enregistrée [World Collection of Recorded Folk Music] - Disque V - Europe 3 1958 1:11 Yes
084 Us Not Them & Friends Barbary Allen Sleepers - The Songs of Carrie Milliner & The Bobbin Family 2000 No
084 Utopia Early Music Barbara Allen The Flawed Pearl + The American Muse 2010 No
084 Valerie Coates Barbara Allen From the Parlor to the Prairie 2009 No
084 Vaughn Eller Barbara Allen Old Time Music 1978 No
084 Vergie Bailey Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Verlene Schermer Barbara Allen Sing-Along Harper 2006 2:55 Yes
084 Vernon Dalhart Barbara Allen Barbara Allen + the Mississippi Flood 1957 No
084 Vernon Dalhart Barbara Allen Wreck of the C and O No.5 + Barbara Ellen 1939 No
084 Vic Legg Barbara Allen I've Come to Sing a Song - Cornish Family Songs 2000 No
084 Vic Legg Barbara Allen (1) John Howson Collection 1970-1995 No
084 Vic Legg Barbara Allen (2) John Howson Collection 1970-1995 No
084 Vin Garbutt Barbara Allen Down River Recordings, Live Volume 1 2002 No
084 Virginia Meade Barbara Allen California Gold - Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected By Sidney Robertson Cowell 193? 2:52 Yes
084 W.G. Hooker Barbro Ellen The Edith Fowke Collection No
084 Wade Ward Barbry Allen Wade Ward - Banjo & Fiddle - from the Collection of Peter Hoover 2007 No
084 Walker and Jay Barbara Allen Live at Pete's Candy Store 2003 6:53 Yes
084 Walker and Jay Barbara Allen John Christ Recordings 2006 8:04 Yes
084 Walker and Jay Barbara Allen 4-Track Demos 2006 5:35 Yes
084 Walter Ede Barbara Allen The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
084 Walter Roast Bonny Barbara Allan The Helen Creighton Collection No
084 Walter Roast Bonny Barbara Ellen The Helen Creighton Collection No
084 Warde H. Ford Barbara Allen The Library of Congress No
084 Warde H. Ford Barbara Allen Versions and Variants of Barbara Allen 1964 :22 Yes
084 Wiggy Smith Barbara Allen (1) The Gwilym Davies Collection No
084 Wiggy Smith Barbara Allen (2) The Gwilym Davies Collection No
084 Wiggy Smith Barb'rye Ellen Band of Gold 2000 No
084 Wilbur Addison Barbara Allen (1) Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection 1950-1970 4:50 Yes
084 Wilbur Addison Barbara Allen (2) Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection 1950-1970 3:09 Yes
084 William Holly Barbara Allen Guitar Christmas 1996 No
084 William Rew Barbara Allen BBC Recordings No
084 Wood, Wind & Wire Barbry Allen Silent Voices 2000 6:14 Yes
084 Zoe Speaks Barbry Ellen Birds Fly South 2004 5:07 Yes
Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America
by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America
84. BONNY BARBARA ALLEN
Texts: Adventure Mgz, 4 lo '25, 4 10 '26 / Allen, Cowboy Lore, jj American Songster (Kenedy, Baltimore, 1836), 7 / Anderson, Coll Bids Sgs, 33 / Barry, Brit Bids Me, 195 / Berea Quarterly, XVIII, 12 / Beadle's Dime Songs of the Olden lime (N.Y., 1863), 38 / Belden, Mo F-S, 60 / Boletin Latino Americano de Musica, V, 280 / Botkin, Treasry Am F-L, 820 / Botsford, Sgs of Amcas, 26 / Brewster, Bids Sgs 2nd, 99 / Brown Coll / Bull Tenn FLS, II, # i, 234; IV, #3, 73 / Bull U SCdfr 162, #8 / Cambiaire, Ea Tenn Wstn Va Mt Bids, 66 / Chappell, F-S Rnke Alb, 32 / Charley Fox's MinstreVs Companion (Turner & Fisher, Philadelphia) / Cox, F-S South, 96 / Cox, W. Va. School Journal and Educator, XLIV, 305 / Crabtree, Overton Cnty, 204 / Davis, Trd Bid Va, 302 / Downes and Siegmeister, Treasry Am Sg, 34 / Duncan, No Hamilton Cnty, 69 / Eddy, Bids Sgs Ohio, 53 / Everybody's Songster (Sanford and Lott, Cleveland, 1839) / Farm Life, March 1927 / Fauset, F-L N Sc, 1 13 / Focus, III, 445; IV, 10 1, 1 60; V, 282 / The Forget-me-not Songster (Turner & Fisher, Philadelphia), 129 / Fuson, Bids Ky Hghlds, 47 / Gardner and Chickering, Bids Sgs So Mich, 50 / Gordon, F-S Am, 69 / Grapurchat, East Radford (Va.) State Teachers College, 8 25 '32 / Greenleaf and Mansfield, Bids Sea SgsNewfdld, 26 / Harper's Mgz (June 1888), 35; (May 1915), 907 / Haun, Cocke Cnty, 62 / Heart Songs, 247 / Henry, Beech Mt F-S, 12 / Henry, F-S So Hghlds, 82 / Henry, Sgs Sng So Aplchns, 248 / Hudson, F-S Miss, 95 / Hudson, F-T Miss, 14 / Hudson, Spec Miss F-S, # 13 / Hummel, Oz F-S / Jones, F-L Mich, 5 / JAFL, VI, 132; XIX, 286;
XX, 256; XXII, 63; XXVI, 352; XXVIII, 144; XXIX, 160, 1985 XXXV, 343; XXXIX, 97, 211 ; XLII, 268, 303; XLV, 13; XLVI, 28; XLVIII, 310; XLIX, 207; LII, 77 / JFSS, I, 265 / Kennedy, Effects Isolation, 320 / Ky Cnties Mss. / Kincaid, Fav Mt Bids, 14 / Kolb, Treasry F-S, 2 / Leach-Beck Mss. / Linscott, F-S Old NE, 163 / Lomax, Adv Bid Hunter, 243 / Luther, Amcns Their Sgs, 15 / Macintosh, So III F-S, 7 1 MacKenzie, Bids Sea Sgs N Sc, 35 / MacKenzie, Quest Bid, 100 / Mason, Cannon Cnty, 23 / McDonald, SelctdF-S Mo, 30 / McGill, F-S Ky Mts, 40 / Minish Mss. / Musical Quarterly, II, 121 5 IV, 296 / Morris, F-S Fla, 428 /
Musick, F-L Kirksmlle, 6 / Neal, Brown Cnty, 52 / Neely and Spargo, Tales Sgs So III, 137 / N.J. Journal Educ., XVI, #6, 7 / N.Y. broadside: H. J. Wehman #395, Harvard Univ. Library / NTFLQ, II, 55; IV, ijg/N.r. Times, 10-9- '27; Niles, Anglo-Am Bid Stdy Bk, 18 / Niles, More Sgs Hill-Flk, 6 / North American Review, CCXXVIII, 219-20 / Owens, Studies Tex F-S, 30 / 162 Popular Songs (Vickery, Augusta, 1895) / Ozark Life V, #7 / Perry, Carter Cnty, 140 / Pound, Am Bids Sgs, 7 / Pound, Nehr Syllabus, 9 / PTFLS, VII, in;X, i6l&ame, LandSddleBags, 115 / Randolph, 0* F-S,1, 126/Randolph, TbeOzarks, 183 / Rayburn, Oz Cntry, 232 / Sandburg, Am Sgbag, 57 / Scarborough, On Trail N F-S, 59 / Scarborough, Sgctchr So Mts, 83 / Scott, Sing Am, 56 / Sewanee Review, XIX, 315; SharpC, Eng F-S So Aplchns, #21 / SharpK, Eng F-S So Aplchns, I, 191 / Shearin and Combs, Ky Syllabus, 8 / Shoemaker, Mt Mnstly, 127 / Shoemaker, No Pa Mnstly, 122 / SFLQ, II, ji / Reed Smith, SC Bids, 129 / Smith and Rufty, Am Anth Old Wrld Bids, 30 / Stout, F-L la, $/The Pearl Songster (Huestis, N.Y., 1846), 104 / The Southern Warbler (Charleston, 1845), 275 / The Virginia Warbler (Richmond, 1845), 275 / The Vagabonds, Old Cabin Songs for Fiddle and Bow, n. d., 7 / Thomas, Devil's Ditties, 94 / Thomas, Sngin Gatbrn, 6 /Thompson, Bdy Bts Brtcbs, 377 / Trifet's Monthly Budget of Music, 1892 / Univ. of Virginia Mgz (April 1913), 329 / Va FLS Butt, #s 210 / Wheeler, Ky Mt F-S, 39 / Wilson, Bckaods Am, 99 / Wyman and Brockway, Lnsme Tunes, I.
Local Titles: Ballet of Barbara Allen, Barbara Allen (both names with many variants), Barbara Allen's Cruelty, Barbara Ellen, Barbarous Ellen, Edelin, Hard-hearted Barbery Ellen, (The Sad Ballet of) Little Johnnie Green, Sir John Graham, The Love of Barbara Allen.
Story Types: A: A young man lies on his death-bed for the love of Barbara Allen. He requests a servant to bring her to him (the man usually delivers the message in person, though in some texts a letter is sent). She comes without too much enthusiasm and remarks that the lover looks as though he were dying. In response to his pleadings, she accuses him of slighting her in
tavern-toasting or at a ball. He defends himself, but she continues to scorn him. He dies of remorse. Later, when she hears the funeral bells, she repents and dies. Sometimes the rose-briar theme is added.
Examples: Cox, F-S South (E); Davis (A); SharpK (A).
B: The story is like that of Type A, but the lover accepts Barbara's scorn without offering a defense to any accusations that are stated. Not all these texts have accusations.
Examples: Belden (K), Brewster (A), Davis (J).
C: The same story as that of Type A, but the lover acknowledges the justice of Barbara's charge.
Examples: JAFL, XX, 256.
D: The story may follow Type A or B, but the lover curses Barbara in the end. Examples: Brewster (D), Eddy (A), Davis (Q).
E: This type resembles Type D, but Barbara curses the lover in return.
Examples: Davis (P).
F: The story may be of either the A or B type, but the man lavishes gifts on Barbara in direct contrast to her cruelty.
Examples: Davis (S, T); JAFL, XXIX, 161; NTFLQ, II, 55.
G: The story is like that of Type A or B, although the mother (or both parents) is usually blamed by Barbara for causing her to be cruel and the mother (or both mothers) joins the lovers in death.
Examples: Davis (W); Scarborough, Sgctchr So Mts (F); SharpK (B, C)
H : The story is the same as that of Type A, but a view is given of the courtship where Sir James the Graeme (See Child 213) tells Barbara she will be mistress of seven ships if she marries him. He then slights her at the tavern, and the regular story ensues.
Examples: MacKenzie, Bids Sea Sgs N Sc (A).
I: A Negro version exists which, in its fragmentary form, reveals that "Boberick Allen" is a man. The other girls can't see why "I" follow him. He goes to town and back attempting to see "me" follow him, but he can't because "I was away somewhere".
Examples: PTFLS, VII, m ; X, 149 (C).
Discussion: The popularity of this song is undoubtedly due to its inclusion in ten or more early nineteenth century songbooks and on innumerable broadsides. Certainly it is extreme in its number of texts and minor variations, although the basic story outline is amazingly consistent.
In America, the girl's name seldom varies much beyond the to-be-expected spelling changes, but that of her lover takes many forms: the first name may be William, Willie, James, Jemmy, Jimmy, John, etc.; and the last name, often not given, Grove, Groves, Green, Grame, Graham, Hilliard, Ryley, Rosie, etc. The rose-briar motif is frequently found, even though it is not in Child's texts, sometimes with the names Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor (Eddy, Bids Sgs Ohio, F) or Sweet William being present as well. If this ending is lacking, another conventional close such as the "turtle dove and sparrow" stanza ( SharpK, Eng F-S Aplcbns, D) or "a warning to all virgins" (Davis, Trd Bid 7 a, M) usually is substituted. The time of year is most often May as in Child B, but Martinmas (Child A) and autumn (Gardner and Chickering, Bids Sgs So Mich) are not uncommon. For detailed discussions of various texts of this song, see Davis, op. cit., 3024; C. A. Smith in the Mttsical Quarterly, II, 109; and MacKenzie, Bids Sea Sgs N Sc, 35 in particular. However, most of the early editors devote some time to this ballad.
The important narrative changes are included in the story types above. The main story variations center about the actions of Barbara and her lover concerning the accusation, defense, and parting. The Child story is simpler than that of most of the American versions. The curse of the lover on Barbara, the lavishing of gifts by the lover on Barbara, Barbara's curse of the lover, the lover's acknowledgement of the justice of Barbara's charges, the onstage views of the courtship, the parental problems, and the suicide of the motter(s) are all absent in Child and enter with the broadside and songbook texts and the subsequent widespread oral tradition. The mitigation of the cruelty reflected in Types C and G is typical. Type I reflects a complete degeneration and has been discussed in my descriptive essay. In general, in America, Barbara is remorseful, the lover denies the slighting or mention of the slighting is omitted, and the lover accepts his fate objectively more or less as in Child A and B.
Other minor, but notable, variations include the attempt of the lover to embrace Barbara, who avoids him, in some texts, by "skipping all over the room" (see SharpK, op. cit., B); Barbara's riding out of town on a white horse, the information that she is "a poor blacksmith's daughter" and her lover "the richest man in Stonington" being included (see Thompson, Bdy Bts Brtcbs, 379); the basin of blood or tears by the bed (see the Mich., Me., Newf., and other northern versions); and the shift of person (first to third) by the narrator (see Davis, op. cit., D; Gardner and Chickering, Bids Sgs So Mich, 50; and Child B).
Newell, Games and Songs of American Children, 78 cites Barbara Allen as an old New England child's game and evening party dance. He gives no text. Also see Botkin, Am Play- Party Sg, 58.
Cambiaire, Ea Tenn Wstn Va Mt Bids, 68 notes that there is a very old Spanish romance with the same theme. However, the motif is a universally popular one. See WF, VIII, 371 for a Serbian variation.
Barbara Allen(song) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Ballad of Barbara Allen", also known as "Barbara Ellen," "Barbara Allan," "Barb'ry Allen," "Barbriallen," etc., is a folk song known in dozens of versions. It has been classified as Child Ballad 84 and Roud 54. The author is unknown, but the song may have originated in northern England, or Scotland. There are also versions from Ireland, Italy, Scandinavia and the US.[1] The earliest known mention of the song is in Samuel Pepys' diary [2] for January 2. 1666 (ed. Robert Latham & William Matthews, Vol. vii, London: [1972], p. 1.) where he refers to the "little Scotch song of 'Barbary Allen'"
History
Barbara Allen's cruelty: or, the young-man's tragedy. With Barbara Allen's [l]amentation for her unkindness to her lover, and her self, was published as a broadside ballad in London c.1690.[3] However, it appears to have been well known before since the song was to be sung 'To the tune of Brbara [sic] Allen.' Further editions were printed in Britain throughout the eighteenth century, several of which were printed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh or Aberdeen indicating that the song was of Scottish or northern English origin. The ballad was first printed in the United States in 1836.
Summary
Most versions of "Barbara Allen" can be summarised thus: a young man is dying of unrequited love for Barbara Allen; she is called to his deathbed but all she can say is, 'Young man, I think you're dying.' When he dies, she is stricken with grief and dies soon after. Often, a briar grows from her grave and a rose from his, until they grow together.
Not surprisingly, given that this is a ballad of unknown age and origin, largely passed down orally, the details of the story vary significantly in different printed and recorded versions. The setting is usually in the fictitious 'Scarlet Town'. This may be a punning reference to Reading, (pronounced "redding"), as a slip-song version c. 1790 among the Madden songs at Cambridge University Library has 'In Reading town, where I was bound.' London town and Dublin town are used on some versions. The action usually takes place "in the merry month of May" although some versions place it in the autumn. The young man who dies of a broken heart is usually called Sweet William or some slight variant such as young Willie Grove, sweet Willie Graeme. In other versions the name is Sir John Graeme. The version printed below calls him Jemmye Grove. Some longer versions of the ballad explain Barbara's "cruelty" by saying that she (mistakenly) believed that the young man slighted her first.
Versions
Many artists have recorded the song, including Andreas Scholl, Joan Baez, Shirley Collins, Doris Day, The Everly Brothers, Roger Quilter, Texas Gladden, John Travolta, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton (with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh), Maxine Sullivan, Pete Seeger, Tom Rush, Angelo Branduardi (Italian version titled 'Piano Piano" in 1983's album Cercando l'oro and another Italian version titled "Barbriallen" in 2011's album Così è se mi pare), John Jacob Niles, Merle Travis, Bob Dylan, Martin Carthy, Colin Meloy, Michael Hurley, Art Garfunkel, Simon & Garfunkel, Burl Ives, The Grateful Dead, Dando Shaft, Eddy Arnold, Moses "Clear Rock" Platt, Sonne Hagal, Frank Turner, The New Christy Minstrels, Blackmore's Night and Jim Moray.
Johnny Cash re-wrote lyrics to this song and performed it live at Austin City Limits in 1987. The song was renamed "The Ballad of Barbara". The main theme of the song is about divorce instead of death. The main character was born and raised in a southern town, and eventually moved his way up north to possibly New York or Washington D.C. After having a lot of girls and drinks, he discovers his true love where they get married under a "lofty steeple". However, when the main character offers to take her to see his folks down south, she refuses and decides to "take the city". The main character divorces her and moves back home "much wiser now and older".
John Wesley Harding updated the song into a modern ballad about wandering and lost love as "The Red Rose and the Briar" on his album Here Comes the Groom.
Les Barker wrote the poem "Maybe Then I'll Be A Rose" as what he called a "sensible version"[4] of the song, with the lovers seizing the day rather than waiting until death to embrace one another. It was set to music by Savourna Stevenson and recorded by June Tabor for her album Rosa Mundi; she frequently includes it in her live sets.
Uses in popular culture
The first verse was sung by Porky Pig, in the character of Friar Tuck, in the 1958 Warner Bros. cartoon Robin Hood Daffy. Much of the song is sung in the 1951 film classic Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim. It is also sung in the 1940 movie, Tom Brown's School Days. It is heard again in the 1958 Yul Brynner film, The Buccaneer, and in an episode of the 1989–91 TV series Bordertown. It was also sung in the TV Show, "The Waltons", the episode entitled "The Conflict." In the 2000 mockumentary Best in Show, Michael McKean's character sings a verse of this song to his dog over the phone, saying it is the dog's favorite song. John Travolta did a short rendition of the song in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), included on the soundtrack. The song is sung in various versions in the 2000 film Songcatcher. It is also sung by the character, Flora in Jane Campion's The Piano (1993).
The line, 'there was a fair maid dwelling,' was used as the title of a novel by R.F. Delderfield in 1960. The stage play Dark of the Moon (1942), by Howard Richardson and William Berney, is based on the ballad, as a reference to the influence of English, Irish and Scottish folktales and songs in the Appalachian region. The name of the female lead is Barbara Allen.
"'For the Love of Barbara Allen'" is the title of a short story by Robert E. Howard in which an old dying woman is reunited with the youthful reincarnation of her lost love, killed in the Civil War. The song's lyrics are quoted at the beginning and end of the tale, and the ballad itself is cited as a fixture in the lives of the Scotch-Irish pioneers.
The radio series Suspense did a dramatic interpretation of the ballad on October 20, 1952 entitled "The Death of Barbara Allen" with Anne Baxter in the title role.
The Ballad of Barbara Allen is one of the recurring themes in the comic strip "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron" which appeared in Daniel Clowes' Eightball (issues 1-10). In dream sequences and in a film within the story a bearded folk singer sings various lines from the song.
The song provided the inspiration for a British radio play called Barbara Allen in which the title role was played by Honeysuckle Weeks and Keith Barron played Sir John Grove, the father of Jemmye Grove. The play was written by David Pownall and initially broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on February 16, 2009.
Vincent Woods' 1992 play about the Irish-British Troubles, "At the Black Pig's Dyke," uses the song at key moments to comment on the action and relations depicted in the drama.
The song is referenced in Scott Miller's song, "Dear Sarah," in which a Civil War soldier is writing home to his love. The lyrics of the chorus are "And the nights are long, but I write you ev'ry day. And I hum a song that you used to sing. The one of sweet William his love, Barbara Allen And how she was always a long ways away." The ending goes, "In Scarlet Town, I did dwell. There was a fair maid a-dwellin'. Many men cried, well, for the love Barbara Allen"
One version
In Scarlet Town, where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin'
Made every youth cry well-a-day
Her name was Barbara Allen.
All in the merry month of May
When green buds they were swellin',
Young Jeremy Grove on his deathbed lay
For love of Barbara Allen.
He sent his man unto her then,
To the town where she was dwellin'.
"You must come to my master dear,
If your name be Barbara Allen,
For death is printed on his face
And o'er his heart is stealin'.
Then haste away to comfort him,
O lovely Barbara Allen."
Though death be printed on his face
And o'er his heart be stealin',
Yet little better shall he be
For bonny Barbara Allen.
So slowly, slowly, she came up
And slowly she came nigh him,
And all she said when there she came,
"Young man, I think you're dyin'."
He turned his face unto her straight
With deadly sorrow sighin'.
"O lovely maid, come pity me;
I'm on my deathbed lyin'."
"If on your deathbed you do lie
What needs the tale you're tellin'?
I cannot keep you from your death.
Farewell," said Barbara Allen.
He turned his face unto the wall
As deadly pangs he fell in.
"Adieu! Adieu! Adieu to you all!
Adieu to Barbara Allen!"
As she was walking o'er the fields
She heard the bell a-knellin'
And every stroke did seem to say,
"Unworthy Barbara Allen."
She turned her body 'round about
And spied the corpse a-comin'.
"Lay down, lay down the corpse," she said,
"That I may look upon him."
With scornful eye she looked down,
Her cheek with laughter swellin',
That all her friends cried out amaine,
"Unworthy Barbara Allen."
When he was dead and laid in grave
Her heart was struck with sorrow.
"O mother, mother, make my bed
For I shall die tomorrow.
Hard-hearted creature, him to slight
Who loved me so dearly,
O that I had been more kind to him,
When he was live and near me!"
She on her deathbed, as she lay,
Begged to be buried by him
And sore repented of the day
That she did e'er deny him.
"Farewell," she said, "ye virgins all,
And shun the fault I fell in.
Henceforth take warning by the fall
Of cruel Barbara Allen."
Media Barbara Allen
A Florida State Prison recording of this song.
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References
1.^ "Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America". www.contemplator.com. http://www.contemplator.com/child/brballen.html. Retrieved May 05, 2012.
2.^ "Diary of Samuel Pepys-Volume 41:January/February 1665-66". Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/1/6/4163/4163.txt. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
3.^ "English Short-title Catalogue". British Library. http://estc.bl.uk). Retrieved May 08, 2012. . ESTC R226987
4.^ "Mainly Norfolk". http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/june.tabor/songs/maybethenillbearose.html. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
External links Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Bonny Barbara Allen, Child's Ballads 84
Bonnie Barbara Allen in several variants
The Ballad of Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen by Frank Luther, 1928 (MP3) on Project Gutenberg
"Barbara Allan", 19th cent broadside
A painting of Barbara and William in their coffins by Kentucky artist Daniel Dutton Note that the painting pictures them in the nude.
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Mainly Norfolk: Barbara Allen / Barbary Allen / Barbary Ellen
[Roud 54 ; Child 84 ; Ballad Index C084 ; trad.]
Phil Tanner sang Barbara Allen on a BBC recording made on April 22, 1949 at Penmaen. It was included on the anthology The Child Ballads 1 (The Folk Songs of Britain Volume 4; Caedmon 1961; Topic 1968), in 1968 on his eponymous EFDSS album, Phil Tanner, and in 2003 on his Veteran anthology CD The Gower Nightingale.
Shirley Collins sang Barbara Allen on two of her albums: in 1959 on Sweet England and in 1967 on The Power of the True Love Knot. She commented in the latter album's notes:
Barbara Allen is the “dark lady” of the ballads. She has been known to skip out of Jimmy's reach as he stretches a pale arm for her from his death bed; laugh out loud as she sees Jimmy's ghost in the lane on her way home. But after her devilish behaviour she always dies of remorse and finishes up in the churchyard with Jimmy. Of all the many versions I have heard, this one, with its sad two-part tune, haunts me most and best seems to evoke Barbara Allen herself.
Phoebe Smith sang Barbara Allen in a recording by Mike Yates on the 1975 anthology Songs of the Open Road; Gypsies, Travellers & Country Singers. Jon Boden credits Phoebe Smith as his source in his July 5, 2010 entry of his project A Folk Song a Day.
Norma Waterson sang Barbary Allen on her third solo album Bright Shiny Morning. She was accompanied by Mary Macmaster, electro harp; Eliza Carthy & Ben Ivitsky, violins and vocals; Tim Phillips, octave violin, viola; Julian Goodacre, English double pipes; and commented in the sleeve notes:
I don't know where the tune materialised from so I think I must have made it up. I know I sang it as a child, though whether it's from school or the family I don't know. The song is extremely old and was said to be the favourite of Charles the Second's mistress, Nell Gwynn.
A very similar version called Barbara Allen is sung by Martin Carthy on the “English” CD of the Fellside anthology Song Links - A Celebration of English Traditional Songs and their Australian Variants. Edgar Waters commented in the liner notes:
Barbara Allen is number 84 in Professor J. Child's monumental collection of ballads (The English & Scottish Popular Ballads - 5 vols.) and probably originated in the seventeenth century. Samuel Pepys referred to it as a “little Scotch” song in 1666. Whether it is Scottish or English in origin is anybody's guess. There are many, many English and Scottish versions. It was known in English-speaking parts of Ireland by the eighteenth century, where Oliver Goldsmith heard it sung by the family dairymaid, and it remains widely sung there, and in North America. Martin Carthy learnt his version from the singing of an English worker, Jim Wilson, recorded in a Sussex country pub in 1960. The location varies from version to version but Reading is also given in the fine version collected by Ewan MacColl from the Dorset gypsy singer, Queen Caroline Hughes in 1964
A somewhat different version is sung by Martin Carthy as Barbary Ellen on his album Signs of Life. The “Australian” CD of the Fellside anthology Song Links again has a very similar version to this - having the same title and both ending with the rose and briar motif - sung by Cathie O'Sullivan.
Martin Carthy commented in his album's sleeve notes:
I think that I've known Barbary Ellen all my life. The song I learned was very short and gave you nothing of her anger at being treated with such disdain and how that translates to the contempt with which she treats his rather late declarations of lurve... The tune is from the Shropshire gypsy, Samson Price.
Lyrics
Shirley Collins' Barbara Allen on The Power of the True Love Knot
It was round and about last Martinmas tide
When the green leaves were swelling,
That young Jimmy Grove of the West Country
Fell in love with Barbary Allen.
He sent his man into the town
To the place where she was dwelling,
Says, “Will you come to my master dear,
If your name is Barbary Allen?”
Then slowly, slowly got she up
And slowly came she nigh him,
And all she said when there she came,
“Young man, I think you're dying.”
“Indeed, I'm sick and very sick
And shan't get any better,
Unless I gain the love of one
The love of Barbary Allen.”
“But don't you remember last Saturday night
When the red wine you were spilling?
You drank a health to the ladies there
But you slighted Barbary Allen.”
And Death is printed on his face
And all his heart is stealing.
And again he cried as she left his side,
“Hard-hearted Barbary Allen.”
As she was a-going over the fields
She heard the death-bell tolling,
And every sound it seemed to sigh,
“Hard-hearted Barbary Allen.”
“Oh mother, mother, make my bed,
Come make it soft and narrow,
Since Jimmy died for me today
I shall die for him tomorrow.”
From: Bruce Olsen
Child at #84 quotes the entry from Samuel Pepys' diary of Jan 2. 1666, about hearing Mrs. Knipp singing "Barbary Allen". The earliest copy ever found is the broadside copy printed by Brooksby, Deacon, Blare and Back, which can't be earlier than 1689, and more likely July 1690 or later. [The ballad is ZN1459 in my internet broadside ballad index]
The song was printed in the 1740 edition of Allan Ramsay's 'Tea Table Miscellany' (not before) and the tune (for the 1st time) in the same year in James Oswald's 'A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes'. I can find no record of the tune in any of several Scots MSS known to me, c 1675 - 1740. The tune is conspicuous by its absence in C. M. Simpson's 'The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music', 1966.
THE RUINED LOVERS.
Being a rare Narrative of a young Man that dyed for his cruel Mistress, in June last, who not long after his own death, upon a consideration of his intire Affection, and her own coyness, could not be comforted, but lingered out her dayes in Melancholy, fell desperate sick, and so dyed.
Tune of, Mock-beggers Hall Stand Empty.
[For tune see Simpson's BBBM, p. 155 and p. 517.]
Mars shall to Cupid now submit,
for he that gain'd the glory;
You that in Love were never yet,
attend unto my story,
For it is new, 'tis strange and true
as ever age afforded;
A tale more sad, you never had
in any Books recorded.
A Young-man lately lov'd a Maid
more than his life or fortune,
And in her ears the same convey'd,
for thus he did importune:
Dear, pity me, the Lover cry'd,
Sweet let thy heart come to me;
And often said unto the Maid,
Love me, or you'l undo me.
I never was ingag'd before,
I must and will be true t'ye,
Love never made me cry and roar,
untill I saw thy beauty.
No creature cou'd of flesh and bloud,
bring more delight unto me:
Which makes me cry perpetually,
Love me, or you'l undo me.
He made Adresses to the Maid,
and profered to advance her:
I cannot love thee, then she said,
pray take it for an answer:
In many wayes, he sung her praise,
Love shot his Arrow thorow me,
Why did not he, do so to thee,
Love me, &c.
She made him such a straight reply,
he durst no more come near her:
Quoth he I will go home and dye,
since there is nothing dearer.
The joyes of all the Christian World,
(said he) are nothing to me;
'Tis Death only, can set me free:
Love me, &c.
He took his Bed, he rag'd and burn'd,
(sure this must greatly grieve him.
His schorchin love was wuickly turn'd
into a burning Feaver:
And then he dy'd, but first he cry'd,
O! will she not come to me:
Then sheds a tear; his last words were,
Love me, or you'l undo me.
The second part, Containing the misery, sorrow, and death of the Maid.
To the same tune.
The Virgin when she heard news
was very greatly troubled;
And when ye coffin'd Corps she views,
her woes were all redoubled;
And hast thou dy'd for me she cry'd,
thou hast in love out-run me,
Too late I may, thus sadly say,
Thy death hath quite undone me.
Had I a thousand worlds, I would
give them all to restore thee,
For I am guilty of thy bloud,
how dare I satand before thee;
I am a Murdress, woe is me,
Let all true Lovers shun me;
And I must cry untill I dye,
Thy death hath, &c.
It is in vain for me to live,
thy memory will haunt me,
I only have short Reprieve,
thy sorrows daily daunt me;
Where ever thy, dead Corps do lye,
(since thou in death hast won me)
I will be laid, a wofull Maid,
Thy death hath quite undone me.
With that the tears fell from her eyes
she could no longer bear it,
For Love and Death did tyrannize,
she could no longer bear it.
Pray have me home to bed she cry'd,
my sorrows over-run me
I am rewarded for my pride;
Thy death hath quite undone me.
She took her bed and in her head,
a thousand frantick dreans are,
Sadly she lyes, and in her eyes
a hundred flowing streams are;
What wretched fool am I? cry'd she,
O whether am I going? [whither
Poor soul (she cry'd) and so she dy'd:
Thy death hath, &c.
Let all fair Maids that are in love,
by this poor Soul take warning,
Lest that like her, you sadly prove
the purchase of her scorning:
Let all by this, mend what's a miss,
before grief over run-[ye];
Lest you be forc'd to die, and cry,
Thy death hath quite undone me.
FINIS
London, Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright. [1663- 74]
This issue of this song seems to be the earliest extant, and may or may not antedate the mention of "Barbara Allen" in Pepys diary on Jan. 2, 1666. The ballad from which the tune is derived cannot be dated precisely. Ebsworth in 'Roxburghe Ballads' VII, p. 763 puts it at 1636-42, but Harper printed ballads in 1643, and even issued a chapbook in 1660. I think from this tune citation (c 1640-50?, and not used on any other known broadside ballad) that the ballad above is probably a reissue of one of the late 1640's or 50's. The repeat in the 3rd from last verse is the type of error one finds in reprints, where the typesetter's eyes strayed from the correct line on his text source. [Ballads were mostly reprinted from a copy of the most recent previous issue, so errors accumulated. This give rise to some reprinted ballads with strange titles when the old copy had the top torn off, and some strange tune directions, too, ones that won't fit the ballad.]
I strongly suspect, but can't definitely prove, that "Barbara Allen" was based on the above song.
Excerpt from: The Forget-Me-Not Songsters and Their Role in the American Folksong Tradition
by Norm Cohen
American Music, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer, 2005), pp. 137-219
5. "Barbara Allan"/"Bonny Barbara Allan" [Child 84] Most probably the best-known imported ballad in American folk tradition, "Barbara Allen" (spelled "Allan" in the songsters) has been collected in the field over 500 times in the last century. The earliest reference to it is an oftcited entry for January 2, 1666, in Samuel Pepys's Diary recording his evening at Lord Bruncker's: "... but, above all, my dear actress Mrs. Knipp, with whom I sang, and in perfect pleasure I was to hear her sing, and especially her little Scotch song of 'Barbary Allen.' "Pepys had first met Mrs. Elizabeth Knipp (also spelled Knepp) on the preceding December 6. She was beautiful, could sing, and had a very unpleasant husband-a triple threat in consequence of which the lusting diarist could not keep his hands off her. Their friendship rapidly escalated (or should one say, descended) into a degree of intimacy that soon became intolerablet o Pepys's wife. On January 5 ,1666:
" ... and so to Greenwich, and after sitting with them a while at their house, home, thinking to get Mrs. Knipp but could not, she being busy with company; but sent me a pleasant letter writing herself Barbary Allen;" and on the following day: " ... having wrote a letter to her in the morning, calling myself Dapper Dicky in answer to hers of Barb. Allen ... " The latter is (according to a footnote) a reference to another Scots song in which a girl laments her lover's absence.[67]
It has been argued that the January 2 reference was not to the traditional ballad: in a head note to the ballad, editor Belden wrote, Mrs. [Fannie Hardy] Eckstorm in a letter written in 1940 informed me that she and [Phillips] Barry had satisfied themselves, before Barry's death, that as sung by Mrs. Knipp to the delight of Samuel Pepys in 1666 it was not a stage song at all but a libel on Barbara Villiers and her relations with Charles II; but so far as I know the details of their argument have never been published. [68]
The absence of said details in this case rather reminds one of mathematician Fermat's handwritten marginal comment in his copy of a number theory textbook that he had discovered a marvelous proof of the theorem under discussion, but the margin was too narrow to contain it. Without any record of Eckstorm and Barry's evidence (and contrariwise the suggestive evidence in the two correspondents' use of ballad characters as noms-de-plume), we must reluctantly consign their comments to the dustbin of dubious demonstrations and assume that Pepys indeed heard the ballad that we know by that name. In any event, "Barbara Allen" has appeared in cheap print (broadsides, chapbooks, songsters) with such frequency that it is impossible to disengage the oral from the printed tradition. In his study, "'Barbara Allen': Cheap Print and Reprint, "Ed Cray reported that the FMNS version of "Barbara Allen" contained at least one stanza not present in any previous versions, whether from cheap print or oral sources. [69]
The opening stanza is:
It fell about the Martinmas day,
When the green leaves were falling,
Sir James the Graham in the west country
Fell in love with Barbara Allan.
The fourth of the eighteen stanzas is the one Cray singled out as most distinctive:
O see you not yon seven ships,
So bonny as they are sailing,
I'll make you mistress of them all,
My bonny Barbara Allen.
(Notwithstanding the last line, the title of this version is "Barbara Allen," not "Bonny Barbara Allen.") From the fact that four recoveries from American folk tradition included this unique stanza, Cray concluded that those singers had learned their texts from the FMNSs-evidence to him of the significant impact of the songsters on oral tradition. Because none of the songsters with the "Bonny Barbara Allen" version was available to Cray at the time of his study, he was unaware of the complication of that second text, though its existence does not negate any of his conclusions.
The "Bonny Barbara Allen" version (in FMNS Types II, III, IV, VI, and VII, all probably dating from 1844-49) is only nine stanzas long. Its opening stanza is:
It was in and about the Martinmas time,
When the green leaves were falling,
That Sir John Greme in the west country
Fell in love with Barbara Allan.
It too has close (if not derivative) relatives among field-collected versions. But for some minor Americanizations in spelling, it is identical with a Glasgow broadside version printed in 1855. An editorial note on the latter claims it was taken from the fourth volume of Allan Ramsay's early and influential collection, Tea Table Miscellany, which is very close to it and even closer to the FMNS text. Also, except for spelling changes and a few textual differences, the text is the same as "Sir John Grehme and Barbara Allan. A Scottish Ballad" in Percy's Reliques. [70]
Something about the indifferent editorial practices of the compilers of the FMNSs can be concluded from the presence of both versions in three of the thirteen songster types. The source of the latter version can then be assumed to be earlier cheap print; but what of the source of the unique first version? Did its first typesetter (from whom later ones must have copied) have access to a now lost previous printed text? Did he himself (they were almost all men) know a traditional version? Did he make up the stanza? The latter possibility cannot be ruled out: many men of distinguished literary accomplishment (e.g., Ben Franklin) did service as printers and/or typesetters. The answer to this question is not presently at hand; we can hope that further research will provide it.
However, there is evidence that suggests that the FMNS text was not the first published with the added "seven ships" stanza. I base this assertion on a unique "Barbry Allen" written down by William A. Larkin(s) in 1866 in a manuscript collection of ballad and song texts and autograph verses.[71] Larkin's version is very close to the FMNS version-including the (slightly altered) "ships" stanza-though it contains sufficient differences to assure us that it was not copied directly from that source. In fact, two differences suggest that Larkin's comes directly from a predecessor of the FMNS text, and is actually superior to the latter as far as the narrative goes. One of these two differences involves the alteration of a single word; the other, the addition of two stanzas. The word in question appears in the fifth stanza, where the FMNS text reads:
But it fell out upon a day
At the wine as they were drinking
They toasted their glasses around about
And slighted Barbara Allan.
Here, the Larkin stanza replaces the pronoun "it"
with "they" (that is, the two lovers-not the "they" of the third line), which makes more sense story-wise. The added stanzas in Larkin's writing are the last two of the ballad. The FMNS version ends abruptly with
Oh mother, mother make my bed,
O make it soft and narrow,
Since my love died for me to-day,
I'll die for him, to-morrow.
The Larkin text has two more stanzas, ending with the common rose and brier motif-a much neater conclusion. One hesitates to construct elaborate edifices on such slender foundations, but they are at the very least suggestive of an earlier source for the FMNS text.
A third, different version of "Barbara Allen" also appeared in some songsters of the same period. It contains eight double stanzas and begins with the half-stanza:
In Scarlet Town, where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin',
And every youth cried well awa'-
Her name was Barbara Allen. [72]
Footnotes:
67. See Robert Latham and William Matthews, eds., The Diary of Samuel Pepys, a New Complete Transcription(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), 7, 5, where the editors refer to British Museum H. 1601 (226) G 309 (66).
68. NCF 2:111. A one-page typescript in the Barry collection at Harvard's Houghton Library (box 13), signed PB., outlines the argument, but it was never published.
69. Cray," 'Barbara Allen."
70. Allan Ramsay, Tea Table Miscellany (Edinburghr, pt. 1750), 343, quoted by Albert B. Friedman, The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World (New York: Viking, 1956), 88; Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 3, vols. (Philadelphia: 1823, and other editions), vol. 3, no. 7.
71. See Ruth Ann Musick," The Old Album of William A. Larkin," JAF 60 (July-Sept. 1947): 201-51.
72. For example, The American Songster (N ew York: N . C. Nafis, 1839 [CPMS P-085046], and New York: Nafis and Cornish; Nafis, Cornish and Co., and John B. Perry, n.d. [CPM SP-085047]).
Barbara Allen: Library of Congress Listings
Barbara Allen / Gant family [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Gant family
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1934
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Gant family [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Gant family
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1934
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Howard Dixon [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: WWNC (Radio station: Asheville, N.C.) - Dixon, Howard
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Sunshine Robinson [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Liss, Joseph - Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert) - Lomax, Alan - Robinson, Sunshine - Lunsford, Bascom Lamar
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Unidentified [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Liss, Joseph - Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert) - Unidentified
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Virginia Reynolds [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Liss, Joseph - Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert) - Reynolds, Virginia
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Maud Long [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Karpeles, Maud - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Long, Maud
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1950
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Jean Ritchie [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory - Ritchie, Jean
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1951
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Vergie Bailey [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lyttleton, Elizabeth - Bailey, Vergie
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Lilian Napier [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lyttleton, Elizabeth - Napier, Lilian
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Abner Boggs [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lyttleton, Elizabeth - Boggs, Abner
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Ray Hawks [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Hawks, Ray
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Minnie Floyd [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Floyd, Minnie
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Edna Sasser [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Morris, Alton Chester - Sasser, Edna
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Oscar Parks [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lyttleton, Elizabeth - Parks, Oscar
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1938
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Unidentified [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Chase, Richard - Unidentified
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Virginia Meade [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Meade, Virginia
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Rebecca Jones [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Chase, Richard - Jones, Rebecca
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1935
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Bernard Steffen [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Steffen, Bernard
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Lois Judd [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Todd, Charles L. - Sonkin, Robert - Judd, Lois - Spainhard, Rosetta
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Lois Judd [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Todd, Charles L. - Sonkin, Robert - Judd, Lois - Judd, Nathan
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Mary Sullivan [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Todd, Charles L. - Sonkin, Robert - Sullivan, Mary
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Alex Barr [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Barr, Alex
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Alex Barr [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Barr, Alex
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Texas Gladden [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lyttleton, Elizabeth - Gladden, Texas
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Lillian Short [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Randolph, Vance - Short, Lillian
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Jimmy Denoon [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Randolph, Vance - Denoon, Jimmy
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Olga Trail [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Randolph, Vance - Trail, Olga
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1942
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Alec Moore [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Moore, Alec
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1935
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Maud Long [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Moser, Artus - Long, Maud
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1944
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Pleaz Mobley [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Moser, Artus - Mobley, Pleaz
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1943
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Bill Nicholson [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Moser, Artus - Nicholson, Bill
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1946
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Charles Whorton [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Beck, Horace Palmer - Leach, MacEdward - Whorton, Charles
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1947
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Pick Temple [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory - Temple, Pick
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1948
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Maud Long [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory - Long, Maud
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1947
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Munroe Gevedon [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lyttleton, Elizabeth - Gevedon, Munroe
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Howard Collins [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lyttleton, Elizabeth - Collins, Howard
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Emma Dusenbury [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Powell, Laurence - Dusenbury, Emma
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1936
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Mildred Gravett [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Gravett, Mildred
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Bill Atkins [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Barbeau, Marius - Atkins, Bill
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1938
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Rebecca Tarwater [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Seeger, Charles - Tarwater, Rebecca
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1936
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Archie Stice [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Stice, Archie
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1938
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Curtis Dartey [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Thomas, Jean , b - Dartey, Curtis
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1934
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Rosa Day [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Thomas, Jean , b - Day, Rosa
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1934
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Bill Carr [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Valiant, Margaret - Carr, Bill
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1936
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Hule Hines [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Hines, Hule
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Virginia Meade [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Meade, Virginia - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Virginia Meade [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Meade, Virginia - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Alan Jabbour [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Reed, Henry - fiddle
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1967
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Lois Judd [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Judd, Lois - Judd, Nathan, guitar
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Lois Judd [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Judd, Lois - Spainhard, Rosetta
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Lois Judd [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Judd, Lois - Judd, Nathan, guitar
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Lois Judd [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Judd, Lois - Spainhard, Rosetta
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Virginia Meade [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Meade, Virginia - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Hines, Hule "Queen
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Alex Barr [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Barr, Alex - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Alex Barr [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Barr, Alex - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Mattie Queen Turner [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Chase, Richard - Turner, Mattie Queen
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1935
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Josiah Henry Combs [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Combs, Josiah Henry
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Emily Elizabeth Fulks [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Fulks, Emily Elizabeth
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Louise McDowell [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Randolph, Vance - McDowell, Louise
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / May Kennedy McCord [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Randolph, Vance - McCord, May Kennedy
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / May Kennedy McCord [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Randolph, Vance - McCord, May Kennedy
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Oxford, Ray, Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Randolph, Vance - Oxford, Ray, Mrs - Oxford, Kathleen
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Chesser, Ben, Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Harper, Francis - Chesser, Ben, Mrs - Chesser, Gertie Lou
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1944
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Crescent School students [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Evanson, Jacob A. (Jacob Arthur) - Crescent School students
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1944
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Bascom Lamar Lunsford [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory - Lunsford, Bascom Lamar - Emrich, Duncan
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1949
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Shanklin, Nonnie, Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Shanklin, Nonnie, Mrs - Tillman, Prudie, Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1948
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Aunt Molly Jackson [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Barnicle, Mary Elizabeth - Jackson, Aunt Molly
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1935
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Dusenbury, Emma, Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Dusenbury, Emma, Mrs - Powell, Laurence
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1936
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Morgan, Minta, Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Morgan, Minta, Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Preece, Hallie May, Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Preece, Hallie May, Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Burgess, Cora, Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Burgess, Cora, Mrs - White, George L., Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Mary Franklin Farmer [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Farmer, Mary Franklin
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Vernon R Lyons [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Koonce, Cyrus B. - Lyons, Vernon R.
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1949
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Henry, Rachel, Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Carlisle, Irene - Henry, Rachel, Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1951
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Pearl R Nye [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Nye, Pearl R.
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / MacClellan, C. S., Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Morris, Alton Chester - MacClellan, C. S., Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Annie Mae Mauldin [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Morris, Alton Chester - Mauldin, Annie Mae
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Griffin, G. A., Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Griffin, G. A., Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Bascom Lamar Lunsford [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Hibbitt, George Whiting - Greet, William Cabell - Lunsford, Bascom Lamar
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1935
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Bryant, T. M., Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Bryant, T. M., Mrs - Lomax, Alan - Lyttleton, Elizabeth
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1938
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / May Kennedy McCord [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - McCord, May Kennedy
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1936
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / McDowell, L. L., Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - McDowell, L. L., Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1936
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / McDowell, L. L., Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - McDowell, L. L., Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1936
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / I. N Marlow [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Marlow, I. N.
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1936
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Watkins, C. L., Dr. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Watkins, C. L., Dr
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Q. Carl Roberts [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Roberts, Q. Carl
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Womble, Ollie, Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Womble, Ollie, Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / James D Fairless [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Fairless, James D.
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / J. W Green [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Green, J. W.
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1938
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / Warde H Ford [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Ford, Warde H.
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / George Vinton Graham [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Graham, George Vinton
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1938
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / George Vinton Graham [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Graham, George Vinton - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1938
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen / George Vinton Graham [field recordings] :Sound Recording Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Graham, George Vinton - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1938
Barbara Allen
This is the most widespread tune in the Appalachian region (and perhaps in America) for the ballad "Barbara Allen" (Child 84). Bertrand Harris Bronson's "Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads" provides many ...
Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Reed, Henry - fiddle
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1967
Barbara Allen
Dust jacket notes: Incomplete version of Barbara Allen on AFS 3343 A1. Additional verses on AFS 3342 A2.
Contributor: Meade, Virginia
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Yellow song check-list notes: AFS 3809 A1 begins with a false start in which "Mr Grahams's gravity was disturbed by the antics of the photographer" ; AFS 3809 A2 is sung through ...
Contributor: Graham, George Vinton
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1938
Barbara Allen
Child ballad.
Contributor: Sullivan, Mrs. Mary
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Book
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Faulty recording. Child ballad.
Contributor: Judd, Lois - Spainhard, Rosetta
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Described by singers as "oldest" version. Child ballad.
Contributor: Judd, Lois - Spainhard, Rosetta
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Described by singers as "another old tune." Child ballad.
Contributor: Judd, Lois - Judd, Nathan, guitar
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Described by singers as "latest" version. Child ballad.
Contributor: Judd, Lois - Judd, Nathan, guitar
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen
Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra
Contributor: Eaton Faning - arranger - John Liptrott Hatton - arranger - Rosario Bourdon - conductor - Royal Dadmun - baritone vocal - Victor
Site: National Jukebox
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1922
Barbara Allen
For further information on this recording session, including a portion of the song text, please refer to Section 19 of the fieldnotes: State Penitentiary, Raiford, Florida; June 2-5
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Hines, Hule "Queen
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Dust jacket notes: False start.
Contributor: Meade, Virginia
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen
Dust jacket notes: AFS 4228 A1 begins with false start and is incomplete. Song continues on AFS 4228 B.
Contributor: Barr, Alex
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen (Bobby Allen)
Barbara Allen (Bobby Allen) / Mose (Clear Rock) Platt [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, John Avery - Platt, Mose (Clear Rock)
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1933
Bobry Allen (Barbara Allen)
Bobry Allen (Barbara Allen) / Mose (Clear Rock) Platt [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Platt, Mose (Clear Rock) - Lomax, John Avery
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1933
Barbara Allen (Barbry Ellen)
Barbara Allen (Barbry Ellen) / David Wilson [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Wilson, David - Unidentified - Walton, Ivan
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1940
Barbara Allen (Part I)
Barbara Allen (Part I) / Newman, J. U., Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Collins, Fletcher - Newman, J. U., Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen (tune only)
Barbara Allen (tune only) / Wilson, A. P., Mrs. [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Jackson, George Pullen - Wilson, A. P., Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1942
Bonny Barbara Allen
Bonny Barbara Allen / Walter Roast [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Creighton, Helen - Roast, Walter
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1943
Bonny Barbara Allen
Bonny Barbara Allen / Walter Roast [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Creighton, Helen - Roast, Walter
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1943
Lyrical Legacy: Bonny Barbara Allen
Lyrical Legacy The Library of Congress BONNY BARBARA ALLAN. IT was in and about the Martimas time, When the green leaves were a falling, That Sir John Graeme in the west country ...
Contributor: The Library of Congress
Site: LOC.gov web pages
Original Format: Web Page
Barbara E. Allen
Barbara E. Allen / Goldie Hamilton [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Hamilton, Goldie
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbara Allen [textual and melodic transcriptions]
Three textual and two melodic transcriptions of the song sung by George Vinton Graham and textual and melodic transcriptions of Alex Barr's version of the song.
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Manuscript
Disc 02, Side B: The Girl with the Striped Stockings; Barbara Allen [Lyrics]
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Book
Disc 02, Side B: The Girl with the Striped Stockings; Barbara Allen [Audio]
Recording ends abruptly.
Contributor: Nye, Pearl R. - Lomax, John Avery
Site: American Memory-cultural
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Bonnie Barbara Allan - Lyrical Legacy (Library of Congress)
An introduction to the colonial-era ballad 'Bonny Barbara Allen,' including an original song sheet, an explanation of the ballad’s historical background, a printable transcription of the lyrics, and links to recordings and ...
Site: LOC.gov web pages
Original Format: Web Page
Barbary Allen
Barbary Allen / Mary Davis [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Lomax, Alan - Lyttleton, Elizabeth - Davis, Mary - Davis, Cora
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1937
Barbry Allen
Barbry Allen / Carrie Walker [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Walker, Carrie
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Barbry Allen
Barbry Allen / Hettie Swindel [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Halpert, Herbert - Swindel, Hettie
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1939
Bonny Barbara Allan
Bonny Barbara Allan / Aubrey Murphy [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Creighton, Helen - Murphy, Aubrey
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1948
Bonny Barbary Allen
Bonny Barbary Allen / I. G. (Isaac Garfield) Greer [sound recording] :Bibliographic Record Brief Display (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress )
Contributor: Collins, Fletcher - Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield) - Greer, I. G., Mrs
Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Original Format: Audio
Date: 1941
Second Hand Songs
Popular Recordings of British Traditional Ballads (Child Ballads)
1 Barbara Allen Vernon Dalhart 1927
2 Barbara Allen Bradley Kincaid 1928
3 Barbara Allen Doc Hopkins 1932
4 Barbara Allen Les Brown and His Orchestra 1941
5 Barbara Allen #1 Bob Atcher 1948
6 Barbara Allen Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra April 28, 1948
7 Barbara Allen Burl Ives 1953
8 Barbara Allen Eddy Arnold June 1955
9 Barbara Allan Ed McCurdy 1956
10 Barbara Allen Susan Reed 1957
11 Barbara Allen Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo 1957
12 Barbara Allen Richard Dyer-Bennet 1958
13 Barbara Allen The Everly Brothers December 1958
14 Barbary Allen (Child #84) Jean Ritchie 1961
15 Barbara Allen Joan Baez September 1961
16 Barbara Allen The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover 1962
17 Barbarry Allen Jean Redpath 1962
18 The Ballad of Barberry Allen John Jacob Niles 1965
19 Barbara Allen Cisco Houston 1965
20 Barbara Allen Ewan MacColl 1966
21 Barbara Allen Hedy West 1967
22 Barbara Allen Faroe Boys November 1967
23 Barbara Allen Shirley Collins 1968
24 Barbara Allen Art Garfunkel 1973
25 Barbara Allen John Roberts & Tony Barrand 1975
26 Barbara Allen Almeda Riddle 1977
27 Barbry Ellen I.D. Stamper 1977
28 Barbara Allen Shanna Beth McGee 1980
29 Barbara Allen Lesley Schatz 1993
30 Barbara Ellen Judy Cook 1998
31 Barbary Ellen Martin Carthy 1998
32 Barbara Allen Frankie Armstrong 1999
33 Barbary Allen Norma Waterson 2000
34 Barbara Ellen Nic Jones 2001
35 Barbry Ellen June Tabor 2001
36 Barbera Allen Michael Hurley 2002
37 Barbara Allen Tim Grimm 2004
38 Barbara Allen Bob Dylan 2005
39 Barbara Allen Sara Grey August 2005
40 Barbary Ellyn Paul's Big Radio 2007
41 The Cruelty of Barbary Ellen Meg Baird May 22, 2007
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Check list of Tennessee Folk Songs
Bonny Barbara Allan (title). Smith I4I. Claudia K. Townes, Knoxville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text, tune). Horne 73. Mrs. Pedigo, Maryville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text, tune). Campbell 95; Sharp I: i88. Alfred H. Norton, Rocky Fork.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text, tune, R). Kirkland, Popular 70. Clara J. McCauley, Knoxville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (title, R). Kirkland, Popular 71. Sam Hatcher, Knoxville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (title, R). Kirkland, Popular 71. Jack Moore, Knoxville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (title, R). Kirkland, Popular 71. Ted Lewis, Knoxville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Duncan, Ballads 69. Mrs. Grace Francisco, Sale Creek.
Bonny Barbara Allan (R). LC. Rebecca Tarwater, Rockwood.
Bonny Barbara Allan (R). LC. Mrs. L. L. McDowell, Smithville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Haun 62. Mrs. Maggie Haun, Cocke County.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Anderson, Collection 33. Lorene Goodman, Edgemore.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Anderson, Collection 35. Murlia Williams, Cosby.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Anderson, Collection 37. Mrs. J. D. Scott, Sevierville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Anderson, Collection 38. Ralph Norton, Erwin.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Anderson, Collection 40. Mrs. J. S. Carnes, Maryville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Anderson, Collection 4I. Mrs. D. S. McGinley, Maryville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Duncan, Ballads 70. Pearl Green Gentry, Sale Creek.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Anderson, Collection 39. Mrs. Flora Havens, Binfield.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Anderson, Collection 34. Mrs. Sam Harmon, Cades Cove.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Anderson, Collection 43.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Duncan, Ballads 72. Mrs. Hallie Lee Potter, Sale Creek.
Bonny Barbara Allan (R). LC. Samuel Harmon, Maryville.
Bonny Barbara Allan (R). LC. Mrs. Vera Kilgore, Monteagle.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Henry, Songs Sung 248. Henry Clay Oliver, Cade's Cove.
Bonny Barbara Allan (R). LC, Collector: Artus Moser. Pleaz Mobley, Harrogate.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Perry I40. Ed Heaton, Carter County.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Perry I42. Anne Potter, Carter County.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Perry I44. Mrs. Pauline Cable, Carter County.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Kennedy 320. Macon County.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Crabtree 204. Overton County.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Crabtree 206. Overton County.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Crabtree 207. Overton County.
Bonny Barbara Allan (text). Mason 23. Esten Macon, Readyville.
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Harry Cox insisted similarly. An interview with him by Bob Thomson and me in Catfield Norfolk shortly before his death in May 1971, transcript published in Folk Review for February 1973, contained the following assertions from him:--
~~~'Barbara Ellen' now, I remember it. Some people sing that different to what other people do. You might know a different tune. And there's some put another two verses at the end. I never could. 'And from her grave grew a rose'. The other one come in 'Lord Lovely' — 'Where they tied together in a true-love's knot, For true loves all to admire.' That's in another song. They get mixed up, that shouldn't come in 'Barbara Ellen'. That don't belong in that. They belong in 'Lord Lovely'. My uncle used to sing that. I never did go in for that, I don't know why. That was out of my line. That was sung by another fellow, and I didn't want to mix up too many bits.~~~
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Various Texts of Barbara Allan from Bronson
BARBARA ALLEN
Bronson 84.2
Sharp
Sung by Jane Wheeler 1904
'Twas in the merry month of May
When flowers were all a budding
A young man on his death-bed lay
for the sake of Barb'ra Allen.
BARBARA ALLEN
Bronson 84.12
Sharp
Sung by Jim and Francis Gray 1906
In Scotland I was born and bred,
In Scotland I was dwelling,
when a young man on his deathbed lay
For the sake of barb'rous Allen.
He sent his servant to her house,
To the place where she was dwelling,
saying: You must come to my master's house
If your name is barbarous Allen.
So slowly she put on her clothes,
so slowly she came to him,
and when she came to his bedside,
She says: Young man, you're dying.
A dying man, O don't say so,
For one kiss from you will cure me.
One kiss from me you never shall have
While your poor heart is breaking.
If you look up at my bed hear
You will see my watch a-hanging,
Here is my gold ring and my gold chains
I give it to Barborus Allen.
And if you look down at my bed's foot
You weill see my bowl a-standing,
And in it is the blood I have shed
for the sake of Barbrous Allen.
As I was walking down the fields
and heard some birds a-singing
And as they sung they seemed to say
Hard heated Barbrous Allen.
As I was walking down the lan
And heard some bell a-tolling,
And as they tolled they seemed to say;
hard hearted Barbrous Allen.
As I was walking up the groves
And met his corpse a-coming:
Stop, stop, said she and steam awhile
that I may gaze all on you.
The more she gaxe the more she smile
till she burst out a-laughing,
and her parents cried out: Fie for shame,.
Hard hearted Barbrous Allen.
come mother, make up my bed,
Make it both long and narrow
My true love died for me yesterday
and I will die for him to-morrow.
and he was buried in diamond stone
And she was buried in cold harbor,
And out of him sprung roses red
and out of her sweet briar
It grew and grew so very high
till it could grow no higher
And around the tope growed a true lover's know
and around it twined sweet briar.
BARBARA ALLEN
Bronson 84.14
Chappell
In Scarlet Town, where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin'
Made ev'ry youth cry, well-a-day
her name was Barbara Allen.
all in the merry month of May,
When green buds they were swellin'
Young Jemmy Grrove on his death-bed lay,
For love of Barbara Allen.
He sent his man unto her then,
to the town where she was dwellin'
You must come t my master dear,
giff your name be Barbara Allen.
For death is printed on his face,
and o'er his heart is stealin
then haste away to comfort him
O lovely Barbara Allen.
Though death be printed on his face,
and o'er his heart is stealin,
Yet little better shall he be
For bonny Barbara Allen.
S lsowly, slowly, she came up,
And slowly she came nigh him
And all she said, when there she came,
Young man, I think you're dying.
He turn'd his face unto her straight
With deadly sorrow sighing;
O lovely maid, come pity me,
I'm on my death-bed lying.
If on your death-bed you do lie,
what needs the tale you're telling',
I cannot keep you from your theath;
farewell, said Barbara allen.
He turn'd his face unto the wall,
ad deadly pangs he fell in:
Adieu! Adieu! adieu to you all,
Adieu to Barbara Allen.
As she was walkin o'er the fields,
she heard the bell a knellin;
and every stroke did seem to say,
Unworthy Barbara Allen.
she turn'd her body round about,
and spied the corps a coming
Lay down, lay down the corpse, she said,
That I may look upon him
With scornful eye she looked down,
Her cheek with laughter swellin';
Whilst all her friends cried out amian,
Unworthy Barbara Allen.
When he was dead, and laid in grave,
Her heart was struck with sorrow,
O mother, mother, make my bed,
for I shall die to-morrow.
Har hareted creature him to slight,
who loved me so dearly:
O that I had been more kind to him
when he was alive and near me!
she, on her death-bed as she lay,
begg'd to be buried by him
And sore repented of the day
That she did e'er deny him
Farewell, she said, ye virgins all,
and shun the fault I fell in:
Henceforth take warning by the fall
Of Cruel Barbara Allen.
BARBARA ALLEN
Bronson 84.28
Broadwood
Noted by Mrs. Grahame from the daughters of a Kentish Squire
(the last of whom died in 1865)
In Scarlet Town where I was born
There was a fair maid dwellin'
Made ev'ry heart cry "Well-a-day!"
Her name was Barb'ra Allen.
All in the merry month of May,
when green buds they were swellin',
Young Jemmy Grove on his death bed lay
for the love of Barb'ra Allen.
BARB'RA ALLYN
Bronson 84.30
Sung by Elizabeth Cronin
Collected Jean Ritchie
It was early early in the summer-time
when the flowers were freshly springing,
a young man came from the North Country
Fell in love with Barb'ra Allyn,
Fell in love with Barb'ra Allyn
A young man came from the North country,
fell in love with Barb'ra Allyn.
He fell sick and very very bad
And more inclined to dying.
He rode till he 'ruv to the old house room
to the place where she was dwwelling
To the place where she was dwelling
He rode till he 'ruv to the old house room
To the place where she was dwelling.
very slowly she got up
And slowly she came to him
the first word she spoke when she came there
was, Young man, I fear you're dying,
Young man I fiear you're dying,
The first word she spoke when she came there
Was, Young man, I fear you're dying.
Dyiung, dying, doesn't matter at all, he said,
On kiss from you would cure me,
On kiss from me you ne'er shall see,
If I thought your heart was breaking,
If I thought your heart was breaking,
One kiss from me you ne'er shall see,
If I thought your heart was breaking.
BARBARA ALLEN
Bronson 84.33
Kidson
Benjermin Holgate - learned circa 1850
In Reading town, where I was born,
there was a fair maid dwelling,
Made every lyouth cry, Well-a-day!
Her name was Barbara Allen.
BARBARA ELLEN
Bronson 84.38
Creighton and Senior
sung by Mrs. Dennis Greenough
O early in the month of May,
The birds were sweetly singing,
a young man on his death bed lay
for the love of Barbara Ellen.
He turned his back unto the wall.
Out of her sprung a red rose bush
and out of his a briar,
then they grew up to the high church wall
till they could frow no higher,
and back they returned in a true lover's knot
Red roses and sweet briar.
BONNY BARBARA ALLAN
Johnson -1790
Bronson 84.40
Child 84A
IT was in and about the Martinmas time,
When the green leaves were a falling,
That Sir John Graeme, in the West Country,
Fell in love with Barbara Allan.
He sent his men down through the town,
To the place where she was dwelling:
`O haste and come to my master dear,
Gin ye be Barbara Allan.'
O hooly, hooly rose she up,
To the place where he was lying,
And when she drew the curtain by,
`Young man, I think you're dying.'
`O it's I'm sick, and very, very sick,
And 'tis a' for Barbara Allan:'
`O the better for me ye's never be,
Tho your heart's blood were a spilling.
`O dinna ye mind, young man,' said she,
`When ye was in the tavern a drinking,
That ye made the healths gae round and round,
And slighted Barbara Allan?'
He turnd his face unto the wall,
And death was with him dealing:
`Adieu, adieu, my dear friends all,
And be kind to Barbara Allan.'
And slowly, slowly raise she up,
And slowly, slowly left him,
And sighing said, she coud not stay,
Since death of life had reft him.
She had not gane a mile but twa,
When she heard the dead-bell ringing,
And every jow that the dead-bell geid,
It cry'd, Woe to Barbara Allan!
`O mother, mother, make my bed!
O make it saft and narrow!
Since my love died for me to-day,
I'll die for him to-morrow.
BARBARY ALLEN
Bronson 84.52
Campbell
He sent his servant down to say
In the place where she was dwelling
Oh, come, oh come to my master's bed
If your name by Barbary Allen.
BARBARA ALLEN
Bronson 84.60
Wilkinson
Sung by Jane Morris 1935
'Twas in the merry month of May,
the green buds they were a-swelling,
Young Jimmy mourned on his death ed,
for the love of Barb'ra Allen
He sent his men unto her then,
In the town where she was dwelling,
You must go to my master,
If your name be Barb'ra Allen.
So slowly she put on her clothes,
so slowly came anigh him,
the word she said when she got there:
Young man I think you're dying.
He turned his back onto her then,
and death was on him dealt;
Adieu, adieu, to my friends all,
Fare well to Barb'ra Allen.
So many miles she went from there,
She heard the bells a-knelling,
And every stroke did seem to say:
Hard hearted Barb'ra Allen.
She turned her body round and about,
she spied the corpse a-coming
Sit down, sid down, the body: says she
That I may look upon it.
so scornful she did look at him.
His cheeks were not a-swelling,
Her friends were crying out for shame.
hear hearted Barb'ra Allen
Young Jimmy died, it might be today,
and Allen died tomorrow,
You Jimmy died for pure, pure love,
Young Allen died for sorrow.
BARBARA ALLEN
Bronson 84.63
Wilkinson
Sung by R. H. Mace 1935
It was in the merry month of May
when green buds they were swelling
a young man on his death-bed lay
for the love of Barb'ra Allen.
He sent the message thru' the town
where this young girl was dwelling.
You must unto my master go
If your name be Barb'ra Allen.
Oh slowly, slowly, she got up
and slowly she went to him.
And when she came to his bed-side
Young man I believe you're dying.
O do you remember in yonder's town?
In yonder's town a-drinking?
You passed your glasses all around
And slighted Barb'ra Allen.
He turned his pale face to the wall
And sorrow was his leaving.
Adieu, adieu to the pretty girls all
Adieu to Miss Barb'ra Allen.
Oh she went walking thru the town,
she heard the church bell tolling.
And every tone it seemed to say
hard hearted Barb'ra Allen.
Oh she went raging thru the town,
she saw the corpse a-coming
Set down, set down, those corpse: she said,
And let me gaze upon him.
The more she looked the worse she cried,
the farther she got from him.
siad: If I had been more kind to you
when I were closer to you.
Young Jimmy was buried in the new church-yard
Barb'ra Allen was buried in the choir.
Out of youn Jimmy's grave, thre sprung a red rose,
out of Barb'ra Allens grave, a green brier.
They growed, they growed to the church steeple top,
till they could grow no higher.
They linked and tied in a true-lover's know
The rose wrapped around the brier.
BARBARA ELLEN
Bronson 84.78
Sharp
Sung by John Lewis 1917
Early early in the spring
The green buds they were swellin
Sweet William on his death-bed lay
For love of Barbra Ellen
BABIE ALLAN
Bronson 84.79
Harris
It fell about the Martmas time
When green leaves they war fallin';
That Sir John graham o'th North Kintrie
Fell in love wi Bawbie Allan
BARBARA ALLEN
Bronson 84.94
Kidson - 1891
In Scotland I was born and bred,
O, there it was my dwelling;
I courted there a pretty maid,
O, her name was Barbara Allen.
I courted her in summer time,
I courted her in winter;
For six long years I courted her,
A-thinkin I should win her.
BARBRY ELLEN
Bronson 84.156
Ritchie
Sung by Jimmy Stewart
In London I was bred and born,
In Scotland was my dwellin, O
I fell in love with a nice young girl
And her name was Barbru Allan, o
And her name was Barbru Allan, o
I courted her for seven long years;
I could nae cort her langer, o
but I fell sick and bvery ill
and I sent for Barbru Allan, o
And I sent for Barbru Allan, o
It's when she came tae my bed side
she says Youn man you're dying, 0
O dying, I said it cannot be
One kiss from you will cure me, 0
One kiss from me you'll never get
Long's your hard heart's a breakin, o
Long's your hard heart's a breakin, o
O turn my back untae the wa'
And my face frae Barbru Allan,
It's adieu to me and adieu to you,
Be kind tae Barbru Allan, o
Be kind tae Barbru Allan , o
But loook ye up at my bed-heid
And you'll see what you'' see hangin there,
A guinea gold watch and a silver chian
Gae that tae Barbru Allan, o
Gae that tae Barbru Allan, o
But look ye doun at my bed fet
and you'll see what you'll see stan'in there,
A china basin fu' o' teras
Was shed bro Barbru allan, o
She was not one mile frae the toun
she heard the deid bells tollin, o
and every toll they seemed to say
Hard hearted Barbru allan, o
Hard hearted Barbru Allan, o
O Mother, Mother, make my bed,
and make it long and narrow,
My true love died for me today,
and I'll die for him tomorrow.
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Random quiotes Mudcat;
Robert Graves' comment (it is in "English & Scottish Ballads", 1957: "It is clear enough that Sir John Graeme did not die merely of a broken heart. Like Clerk Colvill, he seems to have been a landowner who had an affair with a country girl, but later decided to marry a woman of his own class. When this marriage was announced, the girl avenged herself by bewitching him; the procedure being to model a wax image of the victim, make it more real by adding his own (stolen) hair-trimmings and nail-pairings, and then gradually waste it over a candle, sticking pins into parts that the witch wanted to injure most".
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"The Child Ballads N.1", Topic, LP, by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy assisted by Shirley Collins, edited by A.L.Lloyd: "The story could not be simpler. A young man is dying of love. He calls for the girl and asks forgiveness and mercy. She scorns and leaves him and he dies. When she hears of his death, she dies of remorse-and in America,so does her mother. The most obvious interpretation here is the most cogent: that is,the revenge and subsequent guilt of a proud and probably frigid,or injured,woman,which would be felt in different ways by male and female listeners. This explanation fits the history of the sexual pattern in recent times in the English-speaking world. Robert Graves proposes an idea which may account for the origin of the song. He sees Barbara Allen as a witch who is killing a man by magic. He begs for mercy, but she persists in her cruelty and then,as often transpires in witch tales,is killed by her own wickedness. In this version,the offer of gifts to Barbara and the lines from Ireland that have her laughing when she sees the corpse suggest that Graves may be right."
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From: M. Ted (inactive) - PM
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 03:46 PM
Just happened to be reading Bocaccio's Decameron, and the Eighth story, fourth night, struck and eerily familiar chord--
A young man (but sickly) from a wealthy family and the daughter of a tailor grow up in love with each other--his mother gets the executors of her husbands fortune to send the young man to Paris,on business (but really just to get him away from the girl).
He is there for several years, all the time pining away and thinking of nothing but the girl--.
He finally goes home, only to find her married to a tentmaker. He walks up and down in front of her house, but she either doesn't recognize him or pretends not to recognize him.
He sneaks into the house and when the husband falls asleep, he pops out and declares his love. She replies that he is the one who left and never wrote, so she married someone else. She then says that she intends to forget about him, and asks him to leave.
He realizes his love letters never reached her,and that, since she intends to forget him, he has no reason to continue living, and he dies. She is upset because, even though she is innocent, it looks pretty bad, what with another man being dead in a bed in her house--She decides to wake her husband and tell him the story, but pretend that it happened to someone else-- He laughs, and says that, of course, the woman is not to blame, at which point she says that she is glad thinks so,and shows him the dead man.
He picks the guy up and carries him back home, where he surreptitiously dumps him on the door step and takes off--Whereupon the body is discovered, and everyone is bewildered and scandalixed--
The couple are afraid that gossip might connect them with the death, so they disguise themselves, and go the the church to hear what people are saying. When she sees the body, she is suddenly overcome with long suppressed love, falls on the body, and dies--
At which point, the husband stands up, confesses the whole story, the assembled crowd agrees that it is all a tragic affair, and the two unfullfilled lovers are buried together--
The Decameron was written in about 1350, and there was a popular English translation published(I believe) before 1650, so it is not so far fetched to imagine that it was a source for balladeers--
At any rate, the whole text of the Decameron is here--search for the name "Silvestra" which is the name of the Barbara Allen-like maiden, and it will take you to the first line of the story(this is one of the greatest works of Western Literature, so if you haven't read it, it's worth checking outDecameron
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The Chandos Poets
The
Legendary Ballads
of
England and Scotland
compiled and edited by
John S. Roberts
(Editor of the Crown Editions of Burns' Works)
with original illustrations and steel portrait.
London
Frederick Warne and Co.
Bedford Street, Covent Garden.
New York, Scribner, Welford and Co.
The author says, "I have collected Ramsay's version of this ballad with that in The Reliques. Professor Aytoun speaks of Percy's version as being inferior to Ramsay's. I must join issue with him here. Besides, he has not printed Ramsay's text faithfully: he makes the dead-bell toll instead of jow, a much less effective word under the circumstances."
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No one has mentioned Barbara's parent's role in this. From the version I know best (Johnny Moynihan when he was with De Dannaan):
Get up, get up, her father said
Get up and go and see him
O father dear do ye not mind the time
You told me how to shun him?
Get up, get up, her mother said
Get up and go and see him
O mother dear do ye not mind the time
You told me how to slight him?
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Phoebe Smith, the Traveller singer from Woodbridge in Suffolk. She died, aged 88, on 8 November 2001 and with her death passed a great tradition of singing. Her voice can be heard on some of the Topic Voice of the People series of CDs, but for a spell-binding 11 minute rendition of Barbara Allen, listen to the Veteran CD VT136CD The Yellow Handkerchief.
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Bronson's analysis of barbara Allen (part of his essay All This for a Song? 1962)
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Mother Maybelle Carter – Bonaparte's Retreat / Hilltop – JS-6172 1976
Topics Mother Mabel Carter, Carter Famiry, Old Time, Folk, Country
Mother Maybelle Carter – Bonaparte's Retreat
Hilltop – JS-6172
1976
A1 Bonaparte's Retreat
A2 Faded Coat Of Blue
A3 Foggy Mountain Top
A4 The Dying Soldier
A5 Barbara Allen
B1 Mockin' Bird Hill
B2 Bully Of The Town
B3 Lover's Farewell
B4 Workin' On The Railroad
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Flanders w.
Tune only by Eaelyn Braid of
Providence, Rhode Island. M. Olney, Collector
Structure: A B C D (2,2,2,2); Rhythm E; Contour: arc;
Scale: major
t.c. D.
For mel. rel. see SAA, 35 (an English tune); BES, I98.
Tr. M. O.
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Barbara Allen
Verse 1
In Reading town, where I was born,
A fair maid there was dwelling,
I picked her out to be my wife,
And her name was Barbara Allen.
Verse 2
Twas in the merry month of May,
When green leaves they were springing,
A young man on his deathbed lay,
For the love of Barbara Allen.
Verse 3
He sent to her a servant man,
To the place where she was dwelling,
Saying - "Fair maid, to my master you must go,
If your name is Barbara Allen."
Verse 4
So slowly, slowly she walked in,
So slowly she went to him,
And when she got to his bedside,
She said - "Young man, you're dying.
Verse 5
Nothing but Death's print on thy cheeks,
All joys they are fled from thee,
I cannot save thee from the grave,
So farewell, my dearest Johnny!"
Verse 6
As she was walking in the fields,
She heard the bells a-ringing,
And as they rang they seemed to say -
"Hard hearted Barbara Allen."
Verse 7
"Hard hearted creature, sure, I was,
To one that loved me so dearly;
I wish I had more kinder been,
In the time of life, when he was near me."
Verse 8
Twas he that died on one good day,
And she that died the morrow;
Twas only he that died of love,
And she that died for sorrow.
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Mudcat:
From: Stower - PM
Date: 20 Oct 11 - 02:16 PM
Thanks, Mick and Jack, for the extra information.
Now that I've this extra information and it seems the song may well have been fairly or completely new in 1665/6, I have been ruminating on the story. Since, in the earliest known broadside version, there is no indication of a relationship already underway between the unnamed would-be lover of Barbara Allen, this would make her already reluctant to go to his death bed. This may also be accounted for what he was dying of, something folk song commentators seem strangely to miss. This ballad was referred to by Pepys in 1666, and has the ill man's implied inability to get out of bed. Add to that the later versions references to the man's sweating and bleeding and we have three symptoms of the bubonic plague: lethargy, high fever and, 12 hours after infection, bleeding out of the cochlea in the inner ear. The Great Plague of London started in 1665, the year before Pepys heard the song, and continued through the year he heard it, killing an estimated 100,000 people, 20% of London's population. And the idea of laughing at seeing the corpse is a well-documented nervous reaction in an uncomfortable situation. I once heard a documentary about grief on BBC Radio 4, and recall that a man who dearly loved his wife burst out laughing when the police came to tell him she'd been killed in a road accident, something he was embarrassed by, just as Barbara Allen clearly was after the event. And isn't it common enough for people to wish they had done and said things to someone after their death, as Barbara Allen does? The ballad is called Barbara Allens Cruelty, but I suspect that title criticises the main player in the song for weaknesses and fears common to many of us.
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rom: Lighter - PM
Date: 20 Oct 11 - 02:58 PM
Nice theory - but it assumes the balladist must have been thinking of an actual event. Otherwise the title "Barbara Allen's Cruelty" seems to make no sense at all.
I don't think the ballads are much interested in medical diagnoses. Jemmy could have been dying of many things - including consumption or (at least in popular imagination) a broken heart. He says the basin is full of his "heart's blood," which at least allows that interpretation.
Also, if there was no prior relationship between the presumed lovers, why would she go to him at all - especially if she thought he might have the plague? And why would she want to be buried by him?
The conjunction of the possible appearance of the song at the same time as that of the plague might have given it added poignancy at the time, however.
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Bronson does have a lot to say about how the ballad altered Barabara Allen's attitude as time went on:
"It is pertinent to observe, as it seems not to have been observed, that tradition has gradually but surely transformed the character of the heroine. In the earliest of our texts (on broadsides), unexplained obduracy was her characterizing trait, as reflected in the song-title "Barbara Allen's Cruelty". It has been a main effect of transmission to rationalize and minimize this quality. The popular sensibility has been unable to stomach her stony-heartedness, and has gone to work on motivation. In the blackletter broadside of Pepys's day, she had stopped the funeral procession to look at her victim:
With scornful eye she looked downe,
Her cheeks with laughter swellin.
Only later is she suddenly struck with remorse. But the popular mind has recoiled from such coldness. Fifty years later, in the earliest Scottish text, that of Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany, she is not cold but filled with vindictive sentiment. She leaves the death-bed with a sigh of reluctance, and goes home to forecast her imminent death. Thereafter, in many American copies, occur verses like the following:
The more she looked, the more she grieved,
She busted out to crying.
"I might have saved this young man's life
And kept him from his dying".
Sometimes self-reproach changes to self-exculpation:
"O mother dear, yuo caused all this;
You would not let me have him"
Little by little, and partly through simple abridgement and condensation - as by omission of her anticipative refusal to soften, before she leaves the dwelling - a kindlier, more sympathetic image has replaced the cruel one that gave the original point to the object lesson. If, as Phillips Barry, believed Barbara was once a "real person", a historic character, she has unquestionably mellowed with age."
He also initially describes the song thus:
"This little song of a spineless lover who gives up the ghost without a struggle, and of his spirited beloved who repents too late..."
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Lighter, I wasn't suggesting the balladist was thinking of an actual single event, but of a recognisable scenario, such as the death of someone from the plague and all the fear and anxiety that goes with it. In that way, the ballad writer would be no different to pop song writers today writing generally of falling in love or breaking up, or writers of films or plays putting made-up characters in dramatic and familiar or real situations. It seems almost too much of a coincidence to me that the 3 symptoms suffered by the would-be lover are those of plague when the date of the ballad is borne in mind.
"Also, if there was no prior relationship between the presumed lovers, why would she go to him at all - especially if she thought he might have the plague?" Precisely. "And why would she want to be buried by him?" Remorse that she denied him his wish for her to be with him (though at the time she'd have feared contamination, if my hunch is correct). Regrets and self-reprisals about the recently deceased in a situation of personal conflict are a common reaction.
I do think Bronson's characterisation of "This little song of a spineless lover who gives up the ghost without a struggle, and of his spirited beloved who repents too late..." is a bit harsh. Why is he spineless? In the earliest version he's just a man making a dying request. Well, in some later versions he collects his tears in a bowl, and what sort of man does that?! And BA is "his spirited beloved"? I can't see what's spirited about either her fear (from one angle) or her heartlessness (from another). Have I missed something?
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[Mick Pierce] Simpson in his introduction to The British Broadside Ballad and its Music says (xi) "And the onset of the eighteenth century saw the gradual disappearance of the tune direction from ballads old and new, depriving us of the links between printed ballad and singing traditions".. He then adds in a footnote to this: "Among other casualties, we must regret the absence of tune directions from versions of such familiar traditional ballads as "Barbara Allen" and "Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor" which appeared in print during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Lacking such information we cannot determine the continuity, if any, between tunes used then and now".
Chappell in PMOT gives the tune "from tradition".
Kidson in Traditional Tunes has the following to say in his notes to the song: There are two different tunes to Barbara Allen commonly printed, the best known first appearing in Chappell's National English Airs, 1838, and the other being found in Scottish song collections. The earliest copy of this I have seen is in Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book II, circa 1750, and after this period in a samll collection of Macgibbon's. It is also in Johnson's Musical Museum, and in later works"..
There is a copy at archive.org of Caledonian Pocket Companion, containing fifty of the most favourite Scotch tunes several of them with variations, all set for the German flute, dated 1747. (This is vol2 containing Barbara Allan on p27 (page 37 of djvu/pdf)).
Johnson: Scots Musical Museum 1787, then Ritson: Scottish Songs 1794.
You can find the Johnson version at archive.org: Scots Musical Museum v3, the song on p230 (p34 in djvu/pdf file). It is pretty much the same tune (but not exactly the same) as in the Caledonian Pocket Companion, but has the words. (The division into A and B parts is the same but without the repeats in Johnson, so you get one verse to the tune; I presume the musical version has repeats to make it an AABB tune).
(The 2 vols of the Ritson are also available at archive.org)
He divides the tunes into 4 groups - A) mainly English, B) mainly Scottish C) a pentatonic group (-4-7) D) a class of American tunes. As far as I can see his earliest is the Musical Museum version (in group B) agreeing with the above.
I presume he knew about the Caledonian Companion tune (he prints Kidson's tune, so I imagine he read his notes) but omitted it because of the lack of words with the tune.
The 3rd is the Caledonian Pocket Companion tune transposed for comparison with the Musical Museum tune (The 1st two I've given the mode to show the key signature as printed. I've changed the mode in the transposed version for a more exact comparison. The tune is hexatonic aeo/dor so there is no change to any of the actual notes).
(I also had to incldude an invisible bar line - [|] - at the end of the 1st line. My version of abcm2ps - abcm2ps-5.9.22 (February 8, 2011)
running under Ubuntu 10.10 - refused to line-break properly there without a bar line; even ! didn't work!).
Mick
X:1
T:Barbara Allan
B:Oswald - The Caledonian Pocket Companion, 1747
L:1/4
M:C
K:Eaeo %tune is hexatonic aeo/dor
"^Slow"B|e (e/f/) {ef}g (f/e/)|(d/e/)(f/g/) {fg}a (g/f/)|
e> f (g/f/)(e/d/)|B e2 :]]:d|B d A (B/A/)|
G> A B (e/d/)|B> A G> A|B e2:]]
X:2
T:Bonny Barbara Allan
B:Johnson - The Scots Musical Museum III, 1791
L:1/8
M:C
K:Ddor
"^Slow"A>A|d2 d>e f2 (ed)|c>d(e>f) g2
w:It was in and a-bout the_ Mar-tin-mass_ time
fe|(d3 e) (fe)dc|A2 d4]]
w:When the green_ leaves_ were a fal-ling
c2|A2 c2 G2 AG|F3 G A2
w:That Sir John Graham in the west count-rie
dc|A3 G|F3 G|A2 d4 :]]
w:Fell in love with Bar-bara Al-lan.
X:3
T:Barbara Allan (Caledonian Pocket Companion transposed)
B:Oswald - The Caledonian Pocket Companion, 1747
N:Transposed down 2 semitones and respaced for comparison with Scots Musical Museum
N:Key changed from Daeo to Ddor (tune is hexatonic aeo/dor so no change
N: in the notes sounding)
L:1/4
M:4/4
K:Ddor
"^Slow"A|d (d/e/) {de}f (e/d/)| (c/d/)(e/f/) {ef}g [|]
(f/e/)|d> e (f/e/)(d/c/)|A d2 ]]
c|A c G (A/G/)|F> G A
(d/c/)|A> G F> G|A d2]]
Bronson. In his notes to var 40 (the Johnson tune) he adds: "The tune may make an earlier appearance in Oswald's A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes [1740], p3, and in his Caledonian Pocket Companion II (ca1745), p27, which I have been unable to compare" (my bold).
So it appears he was just unable to verify these tunes.
I couldn't find a copy of A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes online (at a quick look), but assuming Bronson is correct, this pushes the date back to 1740.