Down In The Willow Garden
Wade Mainer
East Virginia Blues
Banjo tuned E, Capo 3, Key of G
The video is not of Wade Mainer, but shows the chord progression being played. (Verne Garrison)
G C Em
Down in the willow garden where me and my love did meet
C G
There we sat a-courting my love fell off to sleep
C G Em
I had a bottle of burgundy wine which my true love did not know
C G D7 G
And there I poisoned that dear little girl down by the banks below
I drew my saber through her which was a bloody knife
I threw her in the river which was an awful sight
My father often told me that money would set me free
If I would murder that dear little miss whose name was Rose
Connelly
Now he sits by his old cabin door a wiping his tear-brimmed eyes
Mourning for his only son out on the scaffold high
My race is run beneath the sun the devil is waiting for me
For I did murder that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connelly