Down In the Willow Garden - PD arrangement Tim O’Brien / Howdy Skies Music / Universal Music Corp / ASCAP

Down in the willow garden
Where me and my true love did meet
It was there we went a courting
My love fell off to sleep
I had a bottle of burgundy wine
My true love she did not know
It was there I murdered that dear little girl
Down on the banks below

I drew my saber through her
It was a bloody knife
I threw her into the river
It was an awful sight
My father often told me
That money would set me free
If I’d but murder that dear little girl
Whose name was Rose Connolly

Now he stands at his cabin door
Wiping his tear dimmed eye
Gazing on his own dear son
Upon the gallows 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 Connolly

-Paul Brady leads the vocal into some serious Irish ornamentation on the murder ballad Down In the Willow Garden. I studied his part, singing along in the car, for a couple months before trying to add my harmony part.