This is a murder ballad waltz, and a particularly beautiful melody. A great tune to play at jams and sing harmony to. He kills her in three different ways-Poison, Stabbing, and then drowning. Please excuse my mistake in the video, I said that order wrong! Oh well-you can try to get everything right but it's so hard! :)
My favorite version is by the Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=260c3FGN9bE
The banjo I'm playing is a Bart Reiter open-back banjo that I bought in Kansas at
Mass Street Music. I love this banjo!
https://massstreetmusic.com/products/bart-reiter-banjos-standard-open-back?dfw_tracker=2551-17149664133&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3IPgBRCAARIsABb-iGKp3k0RVfHbV_I_y0JXXQI5q_r3F1bPLbY8FjpT9VMtY8SDDKbZf0oaAvJREALw_wcB
Link to Clawhammer book for sale! includes Willow Garden
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Pickenchickenbooks
LYRICS to DOWN IN THE WILLOW GARDEN
G C
Down in the willow garden
G Em
Where me and my love did meet
G C
It was there, we sat a courting
G D7 G
My love dropped off to sleep
C G C
I had a bottle of burgundy wine
G Em
Which my true love did not know
G C
And there I poisoned that dear little girl
G D7 G
Down under the banks below.
I stabbed her with my dagger
Which was a bloody knife
I threw her into the river
Which was a dreadful sight
My father often told me
That money would set me free
If I would murder that dear little girl
Who's name was Rose Connely
Now he sits by his old cottage door
Wiping his tear dimmed eye
Now he waits for his own dear son
Upon the scaffold high
My race is run beneath the sun
Hell is now waiting for me
For I did murder that dear little girl
Who's name was Rose Connelly
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