Different versions of the same tune. Diverse versioni della stessa melodia. BARBARA ALLEN (traditional scottish - child ballad #84) excerpts from: - Alan Stivell: "Piano piano" (album "Cercando l'oro", 1983) - John Travolta: "Barbara Allen" (soundtrack "A love song for Bobby Long" 2004) - Emmylou Harris: "Barbara Allen" (soundtrack "Songcatcher", 2001) - Art Garfunkel: "Barbara Allen" (album "Angel care", 1973) - Dolly Parton: "Barbara Allen" (album: "Heartsongs: Live from home",1994) - Bob Dylan: "Barbara Allen" (album "Gaslight tapes live in 1962") - Mac Wiseman: "Barbara Allen" (album "Mac Wiseman 24 greatest hits", 1987) - Roscoe Holcomb: "Barbara Allen blues" (album: "The high lonesome sound", 1998) - Marie Laforêt: "Barbara Allen" (album "Voyages au long cours", 1998) - Colin Meloy : "Barbara Allen" (album: "Colin Meloy Sings Shirley Collins", 2006) - Joan Baez: "Barbara Allen" (album "Volume 2", 1961) - Everly Brothers: "Barbara Allen" (album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us", 1958) - Judy Collins: "Barbara Allen" (album: "Both sides now", 1998) - Peter Seeger: "Barbara Allen" (album "Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits", 2002) - Sarah Moore: "Barbara Allen" (album "20 best of celtic ladies", 2006) - Triona Ni Dhomhnaill, Mairead Ni Dhomhnaill: "Barbara Allen" (album "Peace on earth", 1999) - Angelo Branduardi: "Piano piano" (album "Cercando l'oro", 1983) - Angelo Branduardi: "Le duvet" (album "Tout l'or du monde", 1983) - Les Brown & Doris Day: "Barbara Allen" (Doris Day's album "The complete recordings with Les Brown", 2002) (original lyrics) It fell about a Martinmas time, When the green leaves were a-fallin, That Sir John Graeme from the West country Fell in love wi Bawbie Allen. He sent his men down through the town To the place where she was dwallin, "O haste an' come to my master dear, Gin ye be Bawbie Allan." O hooly, hooly rase she up Till she cam where he was lyin, An' when she drew the curtains roun Said, "Young man, I think ye're dyin." "I am sick an' very very sick, An it's a' for Bawbie Allan." "But the better for me ye never shall be Though your heart's blood were a-spillin. "O don't you mind, young man", she said, "When in the tavern callin, Ye made the toasts gang roun an' roun, But ye slighted Bawbie Allan." "A kiss o you would do me good, My bonnie Bawbie Allan." "But o kiss o me ye sanna get, Though your heart's blood were a-spillin". He's turned his face untae the wa', For death was wi him dealin, Said, "Fare ye weel, my kind friends a', But be kind to Bawbie Allan. "Put in your han' at my bedside, An' there ye'll find a warran', A napkin full o my heart's blood, Gie that to Bawbie Allan." Slowly, slowly, rase she up An slowly, slowly, left him, An' sighin said she could not stay Since death o life had reft him. She hadna gane a mile but ane, When she heard the dead bell knellin, An' ilka toll that the dead bell gae Said, Woe to Bawbie Allan. In them cam her father dear, Said, "Bonie Bawbie, tak him." "It's time to bid me tak him noo When ye know his coffin's makin. " In then cam her brother dear, Said, "Bonie Bawbie, tak him." "It's time to bid tak him noo, When his grave-claes is a-makin." Then in cam her sisters dear, Said, "Bonie Bawbie, tak him." "It's time to bid me tak him noo, Whan my heart it is a-brakin." "O mother dear, o mak my bed, An' mak it saft an'' narrow; My love has died for me to-day, I'll die for him to-morrow. O father deir, o mak my bed, An' mak it saft an narrow; My luve has dyed for me to-day, An I will dye o' sorrow." Barb'ry Allen was buried in the old church-yard, Sweet William was buried beside her, Out of Sweet William's heart there grew a rose, Out of Barb'ry Allen's, a briar. They grew an grew in the old church-yard, Till they could grew no higher; At the end they form'd a true-lover's knot And the rose grew 'round the briar.