Uploaded March 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Description
In this video I'm playing a fingerstyle version of the traditional Scottish folk ballad “Barbara Allen”. Ethnomusicologists credit it as the most widely collected song in the English language, equally popular in England, Scotland, Ireland, and North America. Most of this arrangement is an uncredited partial TAB which I found floating around on the web. I added the last five measures myself.

Free TAB of this arrangement is at: dirknelson.weebly.com