BARBARA ALLEN

Vintage Song Sheet –

Song:  Barbara Allen.
Music By: Folk Song

From: Francis & Day’s Hill-Billy Album No. 1 (One)
Publisher: Francis Day & Hunter Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1935

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History:

“Barbara Allen” (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man’s love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death.

The song began as a ballad in the seventeenth century or earlier, before quickly spreading (both orally and in print) throughout Britain and Ireland and later North America.