Down In The Willow Garden

The Everly Brothers

Traditional

Key of G · Chords: I IV V vi

Verse 1

G           C      G  Em        G                  Em
Down in the willow garden where me and my love did meet
G        C     G    Em     G         D7     G
There we sat a-courting my love fell off to sleep
  Em              G        Em      G                Em
I had a bottle of burgundy wine my love she did not know
G    C             G           Em   G      D7    G
So I poisoned that dear little girl on the banks below

Verse 2

         C     G       Em     G            Em
I drew a saber through her it was a bloody knife
  G         C      G  Em        G     D7       G
I threw her in the ri-ver which was a dreadful sight
   Em               G    Em      G                  Em
My father often had told me that money would set me free
   G       C           G           Em         G        D7        G
If I would murder that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connelly

Verse 3

          C           G     Em   G                      Em
My father sits at his cabin door wiping his tear dimmed eyes
G            C   G          Em      G      D7       G
For his only son soon shall walk to yonder scaffold high
   Em            G         Em         G                   Em
My race is run beneath the sun the scaffold now waits for me
    G     C           G           Em         G        D7        Em
For I did murder that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connelly