verse 1 C F C Am C Am Down in the willow garden, where me and my true love did meet C F C Am C G C As we sat a-courtin', my love fell off to sleep Am C Am C Am I had a bottle of burglar’s* wine, my love she did not know C F C Am C G C And there I poisoned that dear little girl, along the banks below verse 2 C F C Am C Am I drew a sabre through her, it was a bloody knife C F C Am C G C I threw her in the river, which was a dreadful sight Am C Am C Am My father often told me, that money would set me free C F C Am C Am If I would murder that dear little girl, whose name was Rose Connelly verse 3 C F C Am C Am Father sits at his cabin door, wiping his tear-dimmed eyes C F C Am C G C For his only son soon shall walk, to yonder scaffold high Am C Am C Am My race is run, beneath the sun, the scaffold now waits for me C F C Am C Am For I did murder that dear little girl, whose name was Rose Connelly