Willie Moore

歌詞

Willie Moore was a king, his age twenty-one He courted a damsel fair Oh her eyes were as bright as the diamonds every night And wavy black was her hair He courted her both night and day 'Til to marry they did agree But when he came to get her parents consent They said it could never be She threw herself in Willie Moore's arms As oftime had done before But little did he think when they parted that night Sweet Anna he would see no more It was about the tenth of May The time I remember well That very same night her body disappeared In a way no tongue could tell Sweet Annie was loved both far and near Had friends most all around And in a little brook before the cottage door The body of sweet Anna was found She was taken by her weeping friends And carried to her parent's room And there she was dressed in a shroud of snowy white And laid her in a lonely tomb Her parents now are left all alone One mourns and the other one weeps And in a grassy mound before the cottage door The body of sweet Anna still sleeps This song was composed in the flowery West By a man you may never have seen Oh I'll tell you his name but it is not in full His initials are JRD