Willie Moore-Burnett & Rutherford

[ti:Willie Moore] [ar:Richard Burnett/Leonard Rut] [al:American Murder Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Willie Moore - Burnett & Rutherford [00:00.43]Written by：Traditional [00:00.86]Willie Moore was a king his age twenty one [00:05.11]He courted a damsel fair [00:08.28] [00:08.99]O her eyes was as bright [00:11.17]As the diamonds everynight [00:11.40] [00:13.15]And wavy black was her hair [00:17.01] [00:20.98]He courted her both night and day [00:24.88]'Til to marry they did agree [00:28.77]But when he came to get her parents consent [00:32.70]They said it could never be [00:36.70] [00:40.33]She threw herself in Willie Moore's arms [00:44.31]As oftime had done before [00:48.16]But little did he think when they parted that night [00:51.98]Sweet Anna he would see no more [00:56.31] [01:18.58]It was about the tenth of May [01:22.42]The time I remember well [01:26.24]That very same night her body disappeared [01:30.14]In a way no tongue could tell [01:34.90] [01:37.58]Sweet Annie was loved both far and near [01:41.55]Had friends most all around [01:45.62]And in a little brook before the cottage door [01:49.36]The body of sweet Anna was found [01:54.53] [01:57.07]She was taken by her weeping friends [02:00.87]And carried to her parent's room [02:04.69]And there she was dressed [02:06.71]In a gown of snowy white [02:06.97] [02:08.67]And laid her in a lonely tomb [02:12.89] [02:16.27]Her parents now are left all alone [02:20.10]One mourns while the other weeps [02:23.99]And in a grassy mound before the cottage door [02:27.71]The body of sweet Anna still sleeps [02:32.09] [02:35.26]This song was composed in the flowery West [02:39.12]By a man you May never have seen [02:42.81]O I'll tell you his name but it is not [02:45.86]In full [02:46.84]His initials are J R D