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Down in a Willow Garden
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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Down in a willow garden
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Where me and my love did meet,
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'Twas there we sat a courting
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My love dropped off to sleep.
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I had a bottle of the Burglar's wine
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Which my true love did not know,
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And so I poisoned that dear little girl
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Down under the bank below.
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I stobbed her with a dagger,
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Which was a bloody knife,
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I threw her in the river,
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Which was a dreadful sight.
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My father often told me
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That money would set me free,
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If I would murder that dear little girl
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Whose name was Rose Connelly.
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And now he sits in his own cottage door,
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a wiping his weeping eye,
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And now he waits for his own dear son,
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Upon the scaffold high.
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My race is run beneath the sun,
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Lo, hell's now waiting for me,
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For I have murdered that dear little girl
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Whose name was Rose Connelly.
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From Folk Song USA, Lomax
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Note: Tune is variant on Rosin the Beau
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