Willie Moore

Traditional

Key of G · Chords: I V

Verse 1

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Willie Moore was a king his age twenty-one
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And he courted a damsel fair
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Oh her eyes were as bright as the diamonds after night
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And wavy black was her hair

Verse 2

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He courted her both night and day
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Till on marry they did agree
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But when he came to get her parents’ consent
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They said that could never be

Verse 3

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She threw herself in Willie Moore’s arms
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As oft time had done before
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But little did he think when they parted that night
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Sweet Anna he would see no more.

Verse 4

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Oh it was about the tenth of May
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The time I remember well
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That very same night her body disappeared
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In a way no tongue could tell

Verse 5

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Sweet Anna was loved both far and near
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Had friends most all around
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And in a little brook before the cottage door
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The body of sweet Anna was found

Verse 6

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She was taken by her weeping friends
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And carried to her parent’s room
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And there she was dressed in a shroud of snowy white
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And laid in a lonely tomb

Verse 7

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Her parents now are left alone
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One mourns while the other weeps
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Beneath a grassy mound before the cottage door
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The body of sweet Anna sleeps

Verse 8

Willie Moore scarcely spoke to his friends they say
And at last from them all he did part
And the last heard from him he was in Montreal
Where he died of a broken heart