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DOWN IN THE WILLOW GARDEN (ROSE CONNALLY) Sung by: Benson and Fleecy Fox Recorded in Mountain Home, AR 6/15/63 Click here to listen to the original recording Where me and my love did meet, There we sit and courted. My love dropped off to sleep. I had a bottle of . . . Which my true love did not know. There I poisoned my own true love, Down under the banks below. I drew a saber through her, Which was a bloody knife. I drew a saber through her, Which was a dreadful sight. My father always told me That money would set me free, If I would murder that pretty little miss, Whose name’s Rose Connelly. But now he’s sitting in his own back door, A-wiping his weeping eyes, Looking at his own dear son Upon the scaffold high. Also found in Brown, Vol. II, #67, “Rose Connally.” |
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All Songs Recorded by John Quincy Wolf, Jr., unless otherwise noted The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas Back to the Song Index Back to the Wolf Collection Homepage ©Copyright 2002 Lyon College |