Down In The Willow Garden chords by Traditional

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Down In The Willow Garden

Old Irish Classic also known as Rose Connelly (or Rose Connolly)

Recorded by Charlie Monroe, the Osborne Brothers, Art Garfunkel, Bon Iver, Moriarty and many others


As played by the great Tim O'Brien (on the Irish Bouzouki)


   G+G        E minorEm
Down in the willow garden
    G+G         E minorEm
Where me and my love did meet
    G+G       C majorC
And there we sat a courting
    G+G    D MajorD   G+G
My love fell off to sleep

  C majorC       G+G     E minorEm
I had a bottle of burgundy wine
    G+G      E minorEm
My love she did not know
  G+G                C majorC
And there I poisoned that dear little girl
  G+G    D MajorD    G+G
Down by the banks below

            E minorEm
I drew my saber through her
  G+G      E minorEm
It was a bloody knife
 G+G         C majorC
I threw her in the river
  G+G    D MajorD   G+G
It was a dreadful sight

  C majorC     G+G   E minorEm
My father often told me
   G+G         E minorEm
That money would set me free
     G+G            C majorC
If I did murder that dear little girl
   G+G    D MajorD     G+G
Whose name was Rose Connelly

            E minorEm
Now he sits in his own cabin door
 G+G            E minorEm
A-wiping his tear-brimmed eye
G+G           C majorC
Weeping for his only son
  G+G     D MajorD   G+G
On yonder scaffold high

  E minorEm      G+G     E minorEm
My race is run beneath the sun
  G+G          E minorEm
The devil is waiting for me
  G+G              C majorC
For I murdered that dear little girl
   G+G     D MajorD    G+G

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