Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song: The Willow Garden
Album: b-side for 'Where the Wild Roses Grow'
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C                  Bb   C
Down in the willow garden, 
   C       Bb       C
me and my love did meet
C               Bb    C
And as we sat a-courting, 
   C         Bb     C
my love fell off to sleep
  Am               C        Am
I had a bottle of burgundy wine; 
Am                   C(?)
my love, she did not know
C                       Bb         C
And so I poisoned that dear little girl 
C         Bb    C
along the banks below
C         Bb    C
Along the banks below

I drew my saber through her; 
it was a bloody night
I threw her in the river, 
which was a dreadful sight
My father often told me 
that money would set me free
And so I murdered that dear little girl 
whose name was Rose Connelly
Whose name was Rose Connelly

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


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transcribed by Benjamin Denes
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