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Down in the Willow Garden - The Everly Brothers
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PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Charlie Monroe
Charlie Monroe
Songwriter
[traditional]
[traditional]
Writer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Down in the willow garden
Where me and my love did meet
As we sat a-courtin'
My love fell off to sleep
I had a bottle of Burgundy wine
My love, she did not know
So I poisoned that dear little girl
On the banks below
I drew a sabre through her
It was a bloody knife
I threw her in the river
Which was a dreadful sign
My father often told me
That money would set me free
If I would murder that dear little girl
Whose name was Rose Connolly
My father sits at his cabin door
Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes
For his only son soon shall 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 Connolly
Written by: Charlie Monroe, [traditional]

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