The Best of Robert E. Howard, volume 1 (2007)
“Howard Volume One: Crimson Shadows “For the Love of Barbara Allen”
“’Twas in the merry month of May, When all sweet buds were swellin’, Sweet William on his death-bed lay For the love of Barbara Allen.”
My grandfather sighed and thumped wearily on his guitar, then laid it aside, the song unfinished.
“My voice is too old and cracked,” he said, leaning back in his cushion-seated chair and fumbling in the pockets of his sagging old vest for cob-pipe and tobacco. “Reminds me of my brother Joel. The... way he could sing that song. It was his favorite. Makes me think of poor old Rachel Ormond, who loved him. She's dyin’, her nephew Jim Ormond told me yesterday. She’s old; older’n I am. You never saw her, did you?”
I shook my head.
“She was a real beauty when she was young, and Joel was alive and lovin’ her. He had a fine voice, Joel, and he loved to play his guitar and sing. He’d sing as he rode along. He was singin’ ‘Barbara Allen’ when he met Rachel Ormond.MoreLess
“’Twas in the merry month of May, When all sweet buds were swellin’, Sweet William on his death-bed lay For the love of Barbara Allen.”
My grandfather sighed and thumped wearily on his guitar, then laid it aside, the song unfinished.
“My voice is too old and cracked,” he said, leaning back in his cushion-seated chair and fumbling in the pockets of his sagging old vest for cob-pipe and tobacco. “Reminds me of my brother Joel. The... way he could sing that song. It was his favorite. Makes me think of poor old Rachel Ormond, who loved him. She's dyin’, her nephew Jim Ormond told me yesterday. She’s old; older’n I am. You never saw her, did you?”
I shook my head.
“She was a real beauty when she was young, and Joel was alive and lovin’ her. He had a fine voice, Joel, and he loved to play his guitar and sing. He’d sing as he rode along. He was singin’ ‘Barbara Allen’ when he met Rachel Ormond.MoreLess
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