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Barbara Allen (Art Garfunkel version)
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we listened to this in music. i cried. :'0 (so sad)
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Love this song....my favourite moment in the Alistair Sim Christmas Carol Movie is when this tune plays in the background as he tentatively enters his nephews party after his transformation..
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i like Art but this is not one of the better versions.
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Absolutely beautiful !
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I agree this is a beautiful version by Garbunkel, best I've heard.
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i was wanting to post one of my fave songs ever on facebook, and of course this is one of them. the album was released when i was a senior in high school, and i have had versions of it ever since. i play this song especially because it just touches a special sadness and happiness in me. the other fave art garfunkel song is his version of "when a man loves a woman". which is also on this album. check it out and i am sure you will love it too.
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This is the first version I ever heard. I heard it in high school. It is probably my favorite. Yesterday before going to see 'Dark Of The Moon' I listened to this and other versions.
"A witch boy from the mountain came,
A-pinin' to be human,
Fer he had seen the fairest gal...
A gal named Barbara Allen."
Above is the first verse of the Ballad of Barbara Allen in that American play. I guess the play 'Dark Of The Moon', a Romeo and Juliet tale from the 1930's is controversial.
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I love Art Garfunkel, but no one can touch this song like Dolly Parton.
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@joanpen1 I think his voice is very suited to this song. But the arrangement could have been cleaner. It would have been better sung a cappella.
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@UpstairsMaid The first reference was in Samuel Pepys diary - four hundred years ago!
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so beautiful - this best of all versions should be intruduced somehow to the current young generation- they could give this odd lovelysound a chance and might actually respond to this greatest hit of the 17th century
joanpen1 2 years ago 14
I absolutely love this song, and have heard several versions.....Garfunkel's is by far the best!
tbshaw123 3 years ago 8