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Key: G Intro: G Verse 1: G D G 'Twas early, early in the spring C G When the rose buds they were swellin' C G A G Young William on his deathbed lay D G All for the love of Bairbre Ellen Verse 2: G D G He sent a servant to the town C G To the town where she was dwellin' C G A G Saying, "my master's sick, and he sends for you D G If you be Bairbre Ellen"
Verse 3: G D G So slow, slowly she got up C G And slowly she went to him C G D G Though all she said when she got there D G "Young man, I fear you're dying" Verse 4: G D G "Oh yes, I'm sick, I'm dreadful sick C G I hear the dead winds howling C G D G And no better, no better will I ever be D G If I can't have Bairbre Ellen" Verse 5: G D G "Well I remember that distant night C G Down in the logwood tavern C G D G You danced and sang with a ladies fair, D G You slighted Bairbre Ellen" Verse 6: G D G As she was on her long way home C G She saw the funeral coming C G D G She said, "lay me down his body there D G That I may look upon him" Verse 7: G D G The more she looked, the more she saw C G Till she fell down in sorrow C G D G "Young William died for me today D G I'll die for him tomorrow" Verse 8: G D G They lay her in the far graveyard C G And William's grave beside her C G D G And o'er his grave grew red, red rose D G O'er Barbara's grave a briar Verse 9: G D G They grew and grew up the churchyard wall C G Till they could grow no higher C G D G And they wound and wound in a true lover's knot D G The red rose and the briar
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