Barbra Allen chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

traditional folk song, 4/4, Key of C majorC

|C majorC       |G7G7      |C majorC
   Twas in the merry month of May
        |FF    |C majorC
When green buds all were swelling,
       |FF
Sweet William on his death bed
       |C majorC E minorEm A minorAm
his death bed lay
      |G7G7   |C majorC
For love of Barbara Allen

|C majorC       |G7G7      |C majorC
  He sent his servant to the town
         |FF   |C majorC
To the place where she was dwelling
        |FF
Saying you must come
    |C majorC  E minorEm  A minorAm
to my master dear
        |G7G7   |C majorC
If your name be Barbara Allen.

|C majorC        |G7G7      |C majorC
   And slowly, slowly she got up
     |FF    |C majorC
And slowly she drew nigh him,
      |FF       |C majorC E minorEm A minorAm
And the only words to him did say
      |G7G7     |C majorC
Young man I think you're dying
|C majorC       |G7G7      |C majorC
  He turned his face unto the wall
       |FF   |C majorC
And death was in him welling,
       |FF       |C majorC E minorEm A minorAm
Good-bye good-bye to my friends all
     |G7G7   |C majorC
Be good to Barbara Allen

|C majorC     |G7G7       |C majorC
 When he was dead and laid in grave
       |FF     |C majorC
She heard the death bells knelling
     |FF
And every stroke
    C majorC E minorEm A minorAm
to her did say
      |G7G7   |C majorC
Hard hearted Barbara Allen

|C majorC         |G7G7
    Oh mother oh mother go dig
 |C majorC        |FF    |C majorC
my grave and make it long and narrow,
       |FF       |C majorC E minorEm A minorAm
Sweet William died of love for me
     |G7G7  |C majorC
And I will die of sorrow

|C majorC          |G7G7
     And father oh father go dig
 |C majorC        |FF    |C majorC
My grave and make it long and narrow,
       |FF      |C majorC E minorEm A minorAm
Sweet William died on yesterday
     |G7G7  |C majorC
And I will die tomorrow

|C majorC          |G7G7
   Barbara Allen was buried in
       |C majorC
the old churchyard
         |G7G7    |C majorC
And the rose grew round the briar

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