Barbara Allen keyboard

Barbara Allen

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Art Garfunkel   -   Barbara Allen
 
CAPO: 2nd Fret
 
 
           D     A        D
All in the merry month of May,
                G        A
When green buds all were swelling
      G              D
Sweet William on his deathbed lay
            G       D      A
For love of Barbara Allen
 
 
            D       A      D
He sent his servant to the town,
                G       A
The place where she did dwell in
         G               D
Saying, "Master dear has sent me here
                G       A
If your name be Barbara Allen."
 
 
             D      A       D
Then slowly, slowly she got up
           G        A
And slowly she went to him
    G                 D
And all she said when there she came
                   G            D A
Was, "Young man, I think you're dying.?
 
 
             D          A     D
"Don't you remember the other night
             G      A
When we were in the tavern?
     G                   D
You drank a toast to the ladies there,
             G       D        G   A
And slighted Barbara Allen."
 
 
              D      A      D
He turned his face unto the wall,
              G     A
He turned his back upon her
  G               D
"Adieu, adieu, to all my friends,
       G        A               D
And be kind, be kind to Barbara Allen."
 

INSTRUMENTAL: 
 
 
A          D         A        D
As she was wandering o'er the fields,
              G          A
She heard the death bell knelling
    G              D
And every note, it seemed to say,
              G       A
"Hard-hearted Barbara Allen!"
 
 
            D          A        D
The more it tolled the more she grieved,
            G     A
She bursted out a-crying
     G              D
"Oh, pick me up and carry me home,
            G    A
I fear that I am dying."
 
 
INSTRUMENTAL: D G A   D G A
 
            ## Key Change - Up 3 semitones ##
 
              F C F Bb C
 
 
            F            C          F
They buried Willy in the old church yard
            Bb     C
And Barbara in the new one,
         Bb                     F
And from William's grave, there grew a rose,
                Bb      C
From Barbara's, a green briar
 
 
              F           C          F
They grew and grew in the old church yard,
                Bb      C
'Til they could grow no higher,
    Bb                   F
And there they tied in a true lover's knot,
             C       F
The red rose and the briar.

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