Ramblin' Jack Elliott - In the Willow Garden lyrics

Down in the willow garden Where me and my love did stray Was a while we sitting, we courted My love to me did say Willie my darling, oh Willie my dear How can you take my life How can you stop my fair young breast With your long and your daggering knife I had a bottle of poison wine My true love did not know Was there I poisoned that dear little girl Down under the banks below Stopped her with the dagger And it was a bloody knife When I threw her in the river Which was a dreadful sign My father Richie had told me That money would set me free If I would murder that dear little girl Whose name was Rose Connelly Well now he sits at his cabin door Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes And cussing that day that he ever did say That darling young woman to die My race is run, beneath the sun Oh hell is waiting for me I'm sorry I murder that dear little girl Whose name was Rose Connelly Well now I sit in my old jail cell And out of my window can see The spot where I murdered that dear little girl In the shade of the willowed trail Willie my darling, oh Willie my dear How can you take my life How can you stop my fair young breast With your long and your daggering knife