We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Barbara Allen

from Friends by Dino Felipe

/

about

All Music recorded & produced by: Dino Felipe / (2013)
Artwork by: Alex Robert Heilner (2013)

lyrics

'Martinmas' day being a day in the year,
When the green leaves, they were falling.
When young Johnny Grove from the north country
Fell in love with Barbara Allen.

He sent his servants out one day
To see if she was comin'.
"One word from you would bring to me to,
If you be Barbara Allen".

"Get up, get up," her mama said.
"Get up and go and see him".
"O mamma dear, do you not mind the time
That you told me how to shun him?".

"Get up, get up," her father said
"Get up and go and see him"
"O father dear, do you not mind the time
That you told me how to slight him?".

Slowly, slowly, she got up.
And slowly she put on.
And slowly went to his bedside
And slowly looked upon him.

"You're lying low young man," she said.
"And almost near a-dying".
"One word from you will bring to me to
If you be Barbara Allen".

"One word from me, you never will get
Nor any young man breathing.
For the better of me, you never will be
If your heart's blood was a spilling"

"Look at my bed foot," he said
"And there you'll see them lying.
Bloody sheets and bloody shirts
That I swear for Barbara Allen".

"Look at my bed head," he said.
"And there you'll find it ticking,
My gold watch and my gold chain
I bestow to Barbara Allen".

As she went over her father's hall
She heard the dead bell ringing.
And every chop the dead bell gave
It was woe to Barbara Allen.

As she went over her father's green
She saw his corpse a coming.
"Lay down, lay down that weary corpse
'Til I get looking on him".

They lifted the lid up off the corpse.
She bursted out with laughing.
And all his wearied friends around
Cried "Hard hearted Barbara Allen!".

She went into her father's house
Saying "Make my bed long and narrow.
For the dead bell did ring for my true love today
& It will ring for me tomorrow".

They buried Johnny in the old churchyard,
And Barbara there right near him.
And out of his grave grew a red, red rose,
And out of hers, a briar.

They grew and grew in the old churchyard,
Till they couldn't grow no higher,
They lapped, and tied in a true love's knot.
&, the rose ran around the briar.

credits

from Friends, released June 11, 2013
Poem By: Unknown (1666 A.D.)
Music / Sounds: Dino Felipe.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Dino Felipe image

Dino Felipe Miami, Florida

Musician / Producer
Composer / Instrumentalist

contact / help

Contact Dino Felipe

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Dino Felipe, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now