Chords for Barbara Allen

[G] I was born in Scarlet Town, there was a fair maid dwellin'
_ [Am] Turned every head [G] as she walked by, her name [D] was [G] Barbara Allen _ _ _ _ _
_ It was in the month of May, green leaves they were swellin'
This [C] young man on [G] his death bed lay, for the love of Barbara Allen _ _ _ _ _ _
He sent his friend to see her there, to the place where she was dwellin'
Sayin' you [C] must come [G] to my friend's bedside, her name is Barbara Allen
Cause death is printed all in his face, _ sorrows in him dwellin'
Oh [C] you must come [G] to my friend's bedside, her name is Barbara Allen
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[G] _ _ If death is printed all in his face, sorrows in him dwellin'
Well it [Am] could better [G] shall he be, for [D] seein' [G] Barbara Allen _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Oh she was walkin' out in the field, she heard the death bells hollin'
_ _ And every stroke it seemed to say, from would be Barbara Allen _
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_ _ _ She kept walkin' out on that day, she saw the hearse come rollin'
_ Lay [Am] down, lay down, [G] that corpse of clay, [D] tiny [G] gaze upon him
_ [D] _
[G] _ _ _ _ Oh mother, mother, come make my bed, _ make it long and narrow
Oh [Am] a young man died [G] for me today, and I must die tomorrow
They [D] _
[G] _ _ _ _ buried her in the old churchyard, they buried him in the choir _
_ And [C] from his [D] grave grew a red, red [G]
rose, from her grave a bridehood _ _
[G] _ _ _ They grew and grew to the steeple top, till they could grow no higher
And there [D] they [G] made a lover's knot, with a red rose round the briar _ _ _ _