1.

     C      /      /    |F
Down in the willow gar - den,
      C         /            |Am    / 
where me and my true love did stray,
     |C             /         /    F
'twas while we were sitting a-cour-ting,
  |F    C     C       /   |
My love to me did say ....

chorus 1:

F         /          C         Am   
Willie my darlin' oh Willie my dear,
  |C            /       Am   /
Oh please don’t take my life,
  |C            /       /          F        
Oh please don’t stab my fair young breast,
         |C        F       G     / |
With your long and daggery knife.

2.

I had a bottle of the Burgundy wine,
My true love did not know,
And so I poisoned that dear little girl,
Down under the bank below.

chorus 2:

I stabbed her with a dagger,
It was a bloody knife,
And I threw her in the river,
Which was a dreadful sight.

chorus 3:

My father rich he had told me,
That money would set me free,
If I would murder that dear little girl,
Whose name was Rose Connelly.

solo:

3.

My father sits in his cabin door,
Wiping a tear dimmed  eye,
Cursing the day he ever did say,
For that dear, young woman to die.

chorus 4:

My race is run beneath the sun,
Oh hell is waiting for me,
For I did murder that dear little girl,
Whose name was Rose Connelly.

chorus 1:

Willie my darlin' oh Willie my dear,
Oh please don’t take my life,
Oh please don’t stab my fair young breast,
With your long and daggery knife.