Story Behind the Song
remake of an old folk song
Lyrics
down in the willow garden where me and my love did meet, there we sat according, my lo9ve she fell asleep. I had a bottle of burgandy wine, which my true love did not know. And there i poisoned that dear little girl down on the banks below.
I threw my saber through her, it was a bloody knife, i threw her in the river, it was an awful sight. My father often told me money would set me free, if i did murder that dead little girl who's name was rose conly.
There he sits by his cabin door wiping the tears from his eyes, he's lost his child, his only son up on the scaffold high (the main character was hung). I haven't got much time left, the devil is waiting for me, cuz i did murder that dear little girl who's name was rose conly.
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