Down in the Willow Garden Lyrics

Down in the Willow Garden - (C. Monroe)
Intro: Repeat 4 G Em
Down in the willow garden,
Where me and my love did meet.
As we set there a' courtin',
My love fell off to sleep.
I had a bottle of burgundy wine,
My love she did not know.
And so I poisoned that dear little girl,
On the banks below.
I drew a sabre through her,
It was a bloody knife.
I threw her in the river,
Which was a dreadful sight.
My father often had told me,
That money would set me free.
If I would murder that dear little girl,
Whose name was Rose Connelly.
My father sits at his cabin door,
Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes.
For his only son soon shall walk,
To yonder scaffold high.
My race is run beneath the sun,
The scaffold now waits for me.
For I did murder that dear little girl,
Whose name was Rose Connelly.
Outtro: Repeat and fade G Em