♫ Intro: C Am C Am C Am C G C ♫ Verse 1: C Am Down in a willow garden C Am Where me and my love did meet C Am And there we sat a-courting C G C My love dropped off to sleep
Am C Am I had a bottle of burgundy wine C Am Which my true love did not know C Am And there I poisoned that dear little girl C G C Down under the banks below ♫ Verse 2: C Am I stabbed her with my dagger C Am Which was a bloody knife C Am I threw her into the river C G C Which was a dreadful sight Am C Am My father often told me C Am That money would set me free C Am If I would murder that dear little girl C G C Whose name was Rose Connelly ♫ Verse 3: C Am And now he sits by his own cottage door C Am A-wiping his tear-dimmed eye C Am And now he waits for his own dear son C G C Upon the scaffold high Am C Am My race is run beneath the sun C Am Though hell is now waiting for me C Am For I have murdered that dear little girl C G C Whose name was Rose Connelly
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