Willow Garden

[Verse 1] Down in yon willow garden where me and my love did meet It was there we sat a-courting when my love fell off to sleep Well I had a bottle of burgundy wine, my love she did not know It was there I poisoned that poor little girl, down on the banks below [Verse 2] Well I drove my saber through her; it was a bloody knife I threw her into the river; it was a dreadful sight For my father often had told me, that money would set me free If I would murder that poor little girl, whose name was Rose Connolly [Verse 3] Now my father stands at his cabin door wiping his tear-dimmed eyes For his only son soon shall walk to yonder scaffold high For my race is run beneath the sun, the devil is waiting for me For I did murder that poor little girl, whose name was Rose Connolly [Verse 4] Oh and now it's time to leave you all its time to say my goodbyes For they are going to stretch me up between the earth and sky