Barb'ry Allen- Hite (VA) 1936 Wilkinson E

Barb'ry Allen- Hite (VA) 1936 Wilkinson E

[Single stanza with music from the manuscript book of Winston Wilkinson; 1935-36, p. 15 designated (B) by Wilkinson/Bronson (its from Wilkinson's 2nd MS book- B), this will be changed to E. Bronson TTCB, 1962, No. 139.

One of many versions from the fertile Brown's Cove area in Virginia.

 R. Matteson 2015]


    [Barb'ry Allen]  Sung by Mrs. Fred Hite, Thaxton, Va., October 13, 1936

O, I am sick, so very sick,
Death on my brows are dwelling,
And none of the better will I ever be
Till I get Barb'ry Allen.