A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oats

 

 

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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