I fell asleep down by the stream
And there I had the strangest dream
And down by Brennan's Glenn there grows
A briar and a rose
There's a tree »
The Briar and the Rose
The Black Rider
by Tom Waits
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the briar's and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em »
The Battle of New Orleans [British Version]
1956-1960
by Johnny Horton
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And the clergy's chosen man
Bushes and briars, you and I
Where do we stand?
I wonder if he knows I'm here
Watching the briars grow.
And all these people »
Bushes and Briars [Radio Session]
A Boxful of Treasures
by Sandy Denny
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the ghost of the scarlet town crier
I was dead upon my feet
I sing the red rose and the briar
I sing the red rose and the briar
The waitress told me her »
The Red Rose and the Briar
Here Comes the Groom
by John Wesley Harding
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the fire
And I've had to live with some hard promises
I've crawled through the briars
I'm an insider
It's a circle of deception
It's a hall »
Insider
Hard Promises
by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
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Brown Eyes and I were tired
We had walked and we had scrambled
Through the moors and through the briars
Through the endless blue meanders
In »
St. Elmo's Fire
Another Green World
by Brian Eno
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I tell ya a thing, foxy little flirt
I caught you in the briar patch
Liftin' up your skirt, well let me tell ya
What you been doin' in the briar »
Bitch's Brew
Rock in a Hard Place
by Aerosmith
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crown
As the briar is strangling
The rose back down
His back shall be my slender new branch
It will sway and bend in the breeze
As the devil does »
Flash Pan Hunter
The Black Rider
by Tom Waits
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meaning
Till I gave you mine
Now the red rose and green briar
Have entwined with love
Undying love, undying love
The light in the window
Is keeping »
Undying Love
True Love
by Desert Rose Band
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William beside her
Out of his grave grew a red, red rose
And out of hers a briar
They grew and grew up the old church wall
Till they could grow no »
Barbara Allen
Folk Songs of the Hills (Back Home/Songs of the Coal Miners)
by Merle Travis
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lying in the briars around
Oh she went to bed a-crying and lamenting
And thinking of her own true love
And as she slept she dreamt that she saw him »
Bruton Town
Who Knows Where the Time Goes [Box Set]
by Sandy Denny
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a green briar
They grew and grew to the steeple top
Till they could grow no higher
And there they twined in a true love's knot
Red rose around green »
Barbara Allen
Gaslight Tapes
by Bob Dylan
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William's heart, 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 »
Barbara Allen
Joan Baez, Vol. 2
by Joan Baez
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a green briar
They grew and grew to the old church wall
And could not grow no higher
And there they died in a true love-knot
The rosebush and the briar »
Barbara Allen
The Reunion Concert [Video/DVD]
by The Everly Brothers
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Willie's grave there grew a rose
From Barbara's a green briar
They grew and grew to the old church wall
And could not grow no higher
And there they »
Barbara Allen
The Reunion Concert [Video/DVD]
by The Everly Brothers
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a rose
Out of Barbara Allen's a briar.
They grew and grew in the old churchyard
Till they could grow no higher
At the end they formed, a true lover's »
Barbara Allen
American Ballads
by Pete Seeger
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Barbara's a green briar
They grew and grew to the old church wall
And could not grow no higher
And there they died in a true love-knot
The rosebush »
Barbara Allen
Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
by The Everly Brothers
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Williams heart, 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 »
Barbara Allen
How Sweet the Sound [CD/DVD]
by Joan Baez
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grave, grew a red, red rose,
And from his grave, grew a briar.
They grew to the top of the old church tower,
Till they could grow no higher, »
Barbara Allen
Both Sides Now [Intersound]
by Judy Collins
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Down the crooked road a ways
A child's shadow hiding in the briar
Tending to a twisted heart that's bent and broken
Wounded and abandoned left »
Crooked Road and the Briar
Service & Repair
by Calexico
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the briars
(The wind is beating through the briars)
The dying stag is on his side.
(Hunters hiding, up on high.
The wind is beating through the briars »
The Rise
I Am Very Far
by Okkervil River
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kill you
Kill you, huh baby? So mature
[Repeat x12]
In the sharp briar »
Sharp Briar
Set Free
by The American Analog Set
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Well I pulled on trouble's braids
And I hid in the briars
Out by the quick mud
Stayin' away from the main roads
Passin' out wolf tickets »
Trouble's Braids
Swordfishtrombones
by Tom Waits
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day.
Will the weeds and briars vanish where the tears of sorrow fell,
And let the seeds of romance play its part.
Or must I go on living with just »
The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart)
Hank Snow Sings Jimmie Rodgers Songs
by Hank Snow
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down in the bramble where I rambled in the spring
The bramble was wild I was torn by the briars
My love he wooed me as I lie there
With a flower in my »
Blackberry Blossom
Blackberry Blossom
by Norman Blake
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