G           C      G  Em
Down in the willow garden
      G                  Em
Where me and my love did meet
G     C     G   Em
As we sat a-courtin'
   G         D      G
My love fell off to sleep

  Em    D         G        Em
I had a bottle of burgundy wine
   G                Em
My love she did not know
G    C             G           Em
So i poisoned that dear little girl
G         D       G
Along the banks below

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

   Em     D     G    Em
My father often told me
     G                  Em
That money would set me free
   G       C           G           Em
If i would murder that dear little girl
      G        D          Em
Whose name was rose connelly

   G     C           G     Em
My father sits at his cabin door
G                      Em
Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes
        G    C   G          Em      
For his only son soon shall walk
   G      D        G
To yonder scaffold high

   Em      D       G        Em
My race is run, beneath the sun
    G                      Em
The scaffold now waits for me
    G     C           G           Em
For i did murder that dear little girl
      G        D          Em
Whose name was rose connelly