Down in the Willow Garden lyrics

Down in the willow garden

Where me and my love did meet,

As we sat 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 sign.

My father often told me

That money would set me free,

If I would murder that dear little girl

Whose name was Rose Connolly.

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.