Down In The Willow Garden

Key of C 

C                     Am 
Down in the willow garden, 
  C                      Am 
where me and my love did meet 
   C            Am 
As we sat a-courtin', 
   C         G      C 
my love fell off to sleep 

  Am              C        Am 
I had a bottle of burgundy wine, 
   C                Am 
my love she did not know 
   C                           Am 
So I poisoned that dear little girl, 
C         G       C 
along the banks below 

  Am                   C 
I drew a sabre through her, 
   C            Am 
it was a bloody knife 
  C                Am 
I threw her in the river, 
      C     G        C 
which was a dreadful sight 

   Am           C    Am 
My father often told me, 
     C                  Am 
that money would set me free 
   C                               Am 
If I would murder that dear little girl, 
      C        G          C 
whose name was Rose Connolly 

   Am                 C     Am 
My father sits at his cabin door, 
C                      Am 
wiping his tear-dimmed eyes 
        C                   Am       
For his only son soon shall walk, 
   C      G        C 
to yonder scaffold high 

   Am              C        Am 
My race is run, beneath the sun, 
    C                      Am 
the scaffold now waits for me 
    C                             Am 
For I did murder that dear little girl, 
      C        G          C 
whose name was Rose Connelly