Rose Conelly Lyrics - Flatt And Scruggs

Down in the willow garden 

There me and my love did meet 

While we set a-courtin' 

My love fell off to sleep 

I'd bought a bottle of burgundy wine 

But my true love did not know 

I planned to poison that dear little girl 

There on the banks below 

I drew a saber through her 

It was an awful sight 

I threw her in the river 

And then ran off in fright 

My father he had told me 

His money would set me free 

If I would poison that dear little girl 

Whose name was Rose Connelly 

My father weeps at his cabin door 

Wipin his tear dimmed eyes 

For soon his only son shall hang 

From yonder scaffold high 

My race is run beneath the sun 

My sentence is waiting for me 

For I did poison that dear little girl 

Whose name was Rose Connelly