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Down in the willow garden,
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where me and my love did meet
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As we sat a-courtin',
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my love fell off to sleep
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I had a bottle of burgundy wine,
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my love she did not know
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So I poisoned that dear little girl,
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along the banks below
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I drew a sabre through her,
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it 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 Connolly
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My father sits at his cabin door,
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wiping his tear-dimmed eyes
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For his only son soon shall walk,
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to yonder scaffold high
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My race is run, beneath the sun,
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the scaffold now waits for me
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For I did murder that dear little girl,
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whose name was Rose Connelly