Barbara Allen- Darling (OH) pre1939 Eddy E
[Single verse with music. No date given, most of Eddy's version are much older than the publication date. From Ballads and Songs from Ohio; Eddy, 1939.
It's impossible to say with certainty that this is a version since the rose-briar ending is found in other ballads..
R. Matteson 2015]
BONNY BARBARA ALLEN
(Child, No.84)
E. BARBARA ALLEN. From Mrs. Willard Darling, Perrysville, Ohio. Mrs. Darling remembers only this concluding stanza from the singing of her mother whose family came from the South.
They grew and grew to the church steeple top,
They couldn't grow up any higher.
Then they twined themselves in a true lover's knot,
For lovers true to admire.