Willie Moore-The Kossoy Sisters

[ti:Willie Moore] [ar:Erik Darling] [al:Bowling Green And Other Folk Songs From The Southern Mountains (Digitally Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Willie Moore - The Kossoy Sisters [00:08.71]Willie Moore was a king [00:11.32]His age twenty one [00:14.10]He courted a damsel fair; [00:19.32]Her eyes was as bright as [00:21.82]The stars in the night [00:24.22]And wavy black was her hair [00:28.17] [00:34.33]He courted her both night and day [00:39.44]To marry they do agree; [00:43.34] [00:44.47]But when he came to get her parents consent [00:49.36]They said it could never be [00:52.93] [00:58.26]She threw herself in Willie Moore's arms [01:02.96]As of time had done before; [01:07.97]But little did he think when they parted that night [01:12.75]Sweet Anna he would see no more [01:16.67] [01:22.41]It was about the tenth of May [01:27.28]The time I remember well; [01:32.13]That very same night her body disappeared [01:36.88]In a way that no tongue could tell [01:41.70] [01:46.38]Sweet Annie was loved both far and near [01:51.44]She had friends of all around; [01:54.97] [01:56.28]And in a little brook before the cottage door [02:01.01]The body of sweet Anna was found [02:05.07] [02:10.33]She was taken by her weeping friends [02:15.43]And carried to her parent's room [02:20.28]And there she was dressed in a gown of snowy white [02:24.93]And laid her in a lonely tomb [02:30.14] [02:34.44]Her parents now are left all alone [02:39.33]One mourns while the other weeps; [02:44.12]And in a little brook besaid the cottage door [02:48.79]The body of sweet Anna still sleeps