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Version 1 Version 2Tuning probably Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb (= Half-Step down) and played in Em (transpose this chord sheet -5) [Intro] Am [Verse] C Am Down in the willow garden C Am Where me and my love did meet C Am As we sat a-courting C G C My love fell off to sleep Am C Am I had a bottle of Burgundy wine C Am My love she did not know C Am So I poisoned that dear little girl C G C On the banks below [Verse 2] C Am I drew a sabre through her C Am It was a bloody night C Am I threw her in that river C G C Which was a dreadful sight Am C Am My father oft had told me C Am That money would set me free C Am If I would murder that dear little girl C G C Whose name was Rose Connolly [Verse 3] C Am My father sits at his cabin door C Am Wiping his tear dimmed eyes C Am For his only son soon shall walk C G C To yonder scaffold high Am C Am My race is run beneath the sun C Am The scaffold now waits for me C Am For I did murder that dear little girl C G Am Whose name was Rose Connolly