Barbara Allen- Hundley (NC) 1940 Abrams REC
[From Amos Abrams Collection: “Barbara Allen, performed by Evelyn Hartley [sic],” Appalachian State University Digital Collections.
This version is sung to the Scottish text "Bonny Barbara Allan" and only one verse is transcribed. This is included because of tune, which is is also fairly standard.
R. Mateson 2015]
Barbara Allen- performed by Evelyn Huntley, Toni Hollis, Louise Miller, Appalachian State, Boone, NC on Oct. 3, 1940.
Listen: http://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/f707b6d20bf72ccaafe433867670b8aa.mp3
And slowly, slowly raise she up,
And slowly, slowly left him,
And sighing said, she could not say,
Since death of life had reft him.