I've just finished to read this novel of J.C.Oats,it was a real page-turner,because I started to read it 2 days ago.(It's also true,that I read it on my mother tongue,but it was an easy read)
To tell the truth,it wasn't my favourite genre of book,rather an interesting one to me,but I enjoyed to read it.
You can find a good review of the book here.
I liked this ballad from the book,it is also sunged by Joan Baez.
Ballad of Barbara Allen
| All in the merry month of May When green buds all were swelling, Sweet William on his death bed lay For love of Barbara Allen. | |
| He sent his servant to the town A place where she did dwell in, Said master dear, has sent me here If your name be Barbara Allen. | |
| Then slowly, slowly she got up And slowly she went to him, And all she said, when there she came Young man I think you're dying. | |
| Don't you remember the other night And death was in him welling, You drank a toast to the ladies there And slighted Barbara Allen. | |
| He turned his face unto the wall He turned his back upon her, Adieu, adieu, to all my friends And be kind, be kind, to Barbara Allen. | |
| As she was wandering by the fields She heard the death bells melling And every note did seem to say Hard hearted Barbara Allen. | |
| The more it tolled the more she grieved She bursted out a crying, Oh pick me up and carry me home I feel that I am dying. | |
| They buried Willy in the old churchyard And Barbara in the new one, And from Willy's grave, there grew a rose Out of Barbara Allen's a briar. | |
| They grew and grew in the old churchyard Till they could grow no higher And there they tied in a true lover's knot The red rose and the briar. Sung by Garfunkel |
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