Barbara Allen chords by Art Garfunkel

Chords with lyrics

Art Garfunkel - Barbara Allen


CAPO: 4th Fret


INTRO: C majorC G+G FF G+G FF C majorC G+G

      C majorC   G+G    C majorC
All in the merry month of May,
             G+G
When green buds all were swelling
   FF       C majorC
Sweet William on his deathbed lay
      FF    C majorC   G+G
For love of Barbara Allen

      C majorC    G+G   C majorC
He sent his servant to the town,
            G+G
The place where she did dwell in
     FF        C majorC
Saying, "Master dear, has sent me here
            G+G
If your name be Barbara Allen."


       C majorC   G+G    Am7Am7
Then slowly, slowly she got up
      C majorC    G+G
And slowly she went to him
  FF         C majorC
And all she said when there she came
          FF      G+G
Was, "Young man, I think you're dying."


       C majorC     G+G   C majorC
"Don't you remember the other night
          G+G
When we were in the tavern?
   FF          C majorC
You drank a toast to the ladies there,
       FF    C majorC    FF  G+G
And slighted Barbara Allen."


       C majorC   G+G   C majorC
He turned his face unto the wall,
  Am7Am7    FF   G+G
He turned his back upon her
 FF        C majorC
"Adieu, adieu, to all my friends,
    FF    G+G        C majorC
And be kind, be kind to Barbara Allen."

INSTRUMENTAL:


G+G     C majorC     G+G    Am7Am7
As she was wandering o'er the fields,
  C majorC     FF     G+G
She heard the death bell knelling
  FF       C majorC
And every note, it seemed to say,
           G+G
"Hard-hearted Barbara Allen!"


      C majorC     G+G    Am7Am7
The more it tolled the more she grieved,
  C majorC       G+G
She bursted out a-crying
   FF       C majorC
"Oh, pick me up and carry me home,
         G+G
I fear that I am dying."


INSTRUMENTAL: C majorC Am7Am7 FF G+G  C majorC Am7Am7 FF G+G

      ## Key Change - Up 3 semitones ##

       Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb AbAb Bb majorBb


      Eb MajorEb      Bb majorBb     Eb MajorEb
They buried Willy in the old church yard
          Bb majorBb
And Barbara in the new one,
     AbAb           Eb MajorEb
And from William's grave, there grew a rose,
            Bb majorBb
From Barbara's, a green briar


       Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb     Eb MajorEb
They grew and grew in the old church yard,
        AbAb   Bb majorBb
'Til they could grow no higher,
  AbAb          Eb MajorEb
And there they tied in a true lover's knot,
       Bb majorBb   Eb MajorEb