Down in the Willow Garden - (C. Monroe)



Intro:  Repeat 4    G    Em



     G      D      G  Em

Down in the willow garden,

      G                  Em

Where me and my love did meet.

G     D            G    Em

As we set there a' courtin',

   G         D      G

My love fell off to sleep.



  Em              G        Em

I had a bottle of burgundy wine,

   G                Em

My love she did not know.

G        D             G           Em

And so I poisoned that dear little girl,

G      D       G

On the banks below.



         D     G       Em

I drew a sabre through her,

   G            Em

It was a bloody knife.

  G         D      G  Em

I threw her in the river,

      G     D        G

Which was a dreadful sight.



   Em           G        Em

My father often had told me,

     G                  Em

That money would set me free.

   G       D           G           Em

If I would murder that dear little girl,

      G        D          G

Whose name was Rose Connelly.



          D           G     Em

My father sits at his cabin door,

G                      Em

Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes.

        G    D   G          Em

For his only son soon shall walk,

   G      D        G

To yonder scaffold high.



   Em            G         Em

My race is run beneath the sun,

    G                      Em

The scaffold now waits for me.

    G     D           G           Em

For I did murder that dear little girl,

      G        D          Em

Whose name was Rose Connelly.



Outtro:  Repeat and fade