'Twas in the merry month of May
when green buds they were swellin'
young Denny Grove on his death bed lay
for want of Barbara Allen
He sent his man down to the town
to the place where she was dwellin'
he said me master's sick he bids me call for
you
if you be Barbara Allen
So slowly slowly she got up
and slowly she went nigh him
and all she said when there she got
was I think you're dyin'
Do you remember the other night
you're at the public house drinkin'
you toasted healths to all the girls
except for Barbara Allen
He turned his head then toward the wall
and death was near him drawin'
adieu' my friends for I must die
for slighting Barbara Allen
Then later as she walked o'er the moors
she saw his corpse train comin'
lay down lay down his corpse she said
that I might gaze upon him
And the more she looked the more she wept
until she burst out laughin''
and all his friends who were by her said
hard hearted Barbara Allen
Oh mother go and make my bed
and make it long and make it narrow
for my true love has for me died today
and I must die tomorrow
they buried Barbara in the old churchyard 
and they buried Denny beside her
and from his grave grew a red red rose
and out of hers a briar
and they grew and grew at the old churchyard
till they could grow on no higher
and at the top they ties a true lovers knot
the red rose and the briar