Down In The Willow Garden chords by Traditional

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

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

                        Em
I drew my saber through her
    G            Em
It was a bloody knife
  G                 C
I threw her in the river
    G        D      G
It was a dreadful sight

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

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

   Em            G         Em
My race is run beneath the sun
    G                    Em
The devil is waiting for me
    G                           C
For I murdered that dear little girl
      G         D        G