'Barbara Allen' - Music & Lyrics

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- Arrangement for 2012 Fowler School Fall Musical, "Finding Home."

A diary entry by Samuel Pepys on Jan. 2, 1666 contains the earliest extant reference to the song. In it, he recalls the fun and games at a New Years party: "...but above all, my dear Mrs Knipp whom I sang; and in perfect pleasure I was to hear her sing, and especially her little Scotch song of Barbary Allen."

In 1792, the renowned Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arranged "Barbara Allen" as one of over 400 Scottish folk song arrangements commissioned by George Thomson and the publishers William Napier and William Whyte..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_(song)



- Samuel Pepys.

[Hoyt]

1. Beautiful. I first heard that song in late 60s or so, but did not know the history until now.

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2. Luv this wonderful version that's lasted

for centuries, brought from Britain to America. My Appalachian grandmother and her daughters who were all musically talented very likely knew it.