Thanks, @Salt-Springs, for your generous comments on 'Barbara Allen'!  Sorry to have been a while getting back to you but it's been a busy summer so far.

Brilliant!  This is a really well done version of a classic tune.  It was so enjoyable to hear presented this way.

When the musician fades into the background and the tune becomes the focus you know you are listening to a masterful presentation........."Hit the Golden Buzzer", I say.

Thanks very much, Strumelia! There are so many great ones, but I love this version of the ballad.

Don't know how I ever missed this.  It's a wonderful rendition, John!   

Thanks, Steven.  (It's really not so unusual.  Quite a number of English versions of the ballad resemble this one, and the 5/4 rhythm is quite common.)

Very nice, John! I've never heard this version...almost like a new song.

Steven

Thanks, TL Kelly!

Very nice!!!

Thanks very much, Paul.

Thanks very much, Robin.  (Don't get me started on Brexit!)

Excellent   This is just soooo English - wonderful!  Of course, post Brexit, old England will return to this wonderful feudal era of surfs and wenches and Lords of the Manor and the simple joys of life, like abject poverty and the bubonic plague   I can't wait !!!!!

Thanks very much for your comments, Val and Helen!

You do great justice to these old ballads John.