G                  Em

Down in the willow garden

G                  Em

Where me and my love did meet,

G                  Em

As we set there a courtin',

G             D     G

My love fell off to sleep.



Em             G/F#   G

I had a bottle of burgundy wine,

G                  Em

My love she did not know.

G                  Em

So I poisoned that dear little girl

G      D     G

On the banks below.



G                  Em

I drew a saber through her,

G                  Em

It was a bloody knife,

G                  Em

I threw her in the river,

G              D     G

Which was a dreadful sight.



Em             G/F#   G

My father often had told me

G                  Em

That money would set me free

G                  Em

If I would murder that dear little girl

G               D     G

Whose name was Rose Connelly.



G                  Em

My father sits at his cabin door,

G                  Em

Wiping his tear dimmed eyes,

G                  Em

For his only son soon shall walk

G           D     G

To yonder scaffold high.



Em             G/F#   G

My race is run beneath the sun,

G                  Em

The scaffold now waits for me,

G                  Em

For I did murder that dear little girl

G              D       Em

Whose name was Rose Connelly.