Misc Traditional

Down In The Willow Garden Aka Rose Connelly(Chords)

Misc Traditional

Key: C

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verse 1 

C           F      C   Am        C                       Am 
Down in the willow garden, where me and my true love did meet 
C     F     C    Am      C         G      C 
As we sat a-courtin', my love fell off to sleep 
  Am              C          Am    C                   Am 
I had a bottle of burglar?s* wine, my love she did not know 
    C       F             C           Am      C       G        C 
And there I poisoned that dear little girl, along the banks below 


verse 2 

C        F     C       Am      C            Am 
I drew a sabre through her, it was a bloody knife 
C           F     C   Am        C     G        C  
I threw her in the river, which was a dreadful sight 
  Am            C    Am       C                   Am  
My father often told me, that money would set me free 
C           F          C           Am          C                 Am  
If I would murder that dear little girl, whose name was Rose Connelly  


verse 3 

C                  F     C     Am         C           Am 
Father sits at his cabin door, wiping his tear-dimmed eyes 
C            F     C        Am       C        G      C  
For his only son soon shall walk, to yonder scaffold high 
  Am              C          Am      C                      Am  
My race is run, beneath the sun, the scaffold now waits for me 
C           F         C           Am          C                 Am  
For I did murder that dear little girl, whose name was Rose Connelly
	        

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