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Most versions of " Barbara Allen " can be summarised thus: a young man is dying of unrequited love for Barbara Allen ; she is called to his deathbed but all she can say is, ' Young man, I think you're dying.

' When he dies, she is stricken with grief and dies soon after.

Often, a briar grows from her grave and a rose from his, until they grow together.