C 
Twas in the merry month of May  
     F              C 
When flowers were a bloomin' 
      F             C        Am 
Sweet Willie on his deathbed lay 
        C       G7      C 
For the love of Barbara Allen 

                              
He sent his servant to the town 
    F                  C 
The town where she did dwell in 
       F               C       Am 
Saying master dear has sent me here 
        C       G7      C 
If your name be Barbara Allen 

             
Then slowly slowly she got up 
    F               C 
And slowly she went to him 
    F                 C       Am 
And all she said when she got there 
      C     G7           C 
Young man I think you're dying 

                                 
Oh don't you remember the other day 
     F              C 
When we were in the tavern 
    F                        C      Am 
You drank your health to the ladies there 
        C        G7      C 
And you slighted Barbara Allen 

            
He turned his face unto the wall 
   F                 C 
He turned his back upon her 
 F             C      Am 
Adieu adieu to all my friends 
   C       G7      C 
Be kind to Barbara Allen 

      
She looked to the east she looked to the west 
    F                C 
She saw his corpse a-comin' 
   F                C      Am 
Oh sit him down for me she cried 
     C     G7        C 
That I may gaze upon him 


The more she looked the more she grieved 
    F             C 
She busted out to cryin' 
       F              C        Am 
Sayin' pick me up and carry me home 
    C      G7        C 
For I feel like I am dyin' 


They buried Willie in the old churchyard 
    F              C 
And Barbara in the new one 
     F                    C      Am 
From Willie's grave there grew a rose 
     C         G7      C 
From Barbara's a green brier 


They grew and grew to the old church wall 
    F                 C 
And could not grow no higher 
    F                    C         Am 
And there they died in a true love-knot 
    C        G7      C 
The rosebush and the brier