Capo 2 
 
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Down in the willow garden 
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My love and I did meet 
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And there we sat a courting 
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My love dropped off to sleep 
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I had a bottle of burgundy wine 
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My young love did not know 
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And there I poisoned that dear little girl 
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Down on the banks below 
 
I drew my saber through her 
It was a bloody knife 
I threw her in the river 
It was a dreadful sight 
My father often told me 
That money would set me free 
If I did murder that dear little girl 
Whose name was Rose Connelly 
 
And now he sits in his own cabin door 
A-wiping his tear-brimmed eye 
A-looking at his only son 
On yonder scaffold high 
My race is run beneath the sun 
The devil is waiting for me 
For I did murder that dear little girl 
Whose name was Rose Connelly