Cave Nick The Willow Garden Lyrics

The Willow Garden Lyrics

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

 And as we sat a-courting, 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 along the banks below

 Along the banks below

 

 

 I drew my saber through her; it was a bloody night

 I threw her in the river, which was a dreadful sight

 My father often told me that money would set me free

 And so I murdered that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connelly

 Whose name was Rose Connelly

 

 

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

 His only son soon should 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

 Whose name was Rose Connelly

 Whose name was Rose Connelly