Name: Down in the Willow Garden
Duration: P00H02M26S
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E.C. Ball, vocal and guitar - Down in the Willow Garden

from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil by Field Recorders' Collective

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Down in the willow garden where me and my love did meet,
Was there we set a-courting, my love dropped off to sleep.
I had a bottle of burgundy wine which my true love did not know
Was there I poisoned that dear little girl down under the banks below.

I drew a saber through her, which was a bloody knife,
I threw her in the river, which was a dreadful sight.
My father always told me that money would set me free
If I would murder that dear little girl, whose name was Rose Connelly.

He’s sitting now in his own cottage door, a-wiping his weeping eye
Looking at his own dear son up on the scaffold high.
My race is run beneath the sun, the devil’s now waiting for me,
For I did murder that dear little girl, whose name was Rose Connelly.

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Bruce Kaplan or Dick Drevo, Rugby, VA, 1971 or 1972. Previously unissued.

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