DOWN IN THE WILLOW GARDEN       (Listen to midi)

 

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1. Down in the willow garden where me and my love did meet,

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    as we sat there a-courtin', my love fell off to sleep.

 

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    I had a bottle of burgundy wine, my love she did not know,

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    so I murdered that dear little girl on the banks below.

 

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2. I drew a sabre through her, it was a bloody sight,

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    I threw her in the river, it was a dreadful night.

 

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    My father often had told me, that money would set me free,

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  if I would murder that dear little girl, whose name was Rose Conally.

 

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3. My father sits at his cabin door, wiping his tear-dimmed eyes,

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    for soon his only son shall walk to yonder scaffold high.

 

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    My race is run beneath the sun, the scaffold now waits for me,

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    for I did murder that dear little girl whose name was Rose Conally.

 

    (Everly Brothers)