Willie Moore-Erik Darling

[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 - Erik Darling [00:08.38]Willie Moore was a king [00:10.99]His age twenty one [00:13.77]He courted a damsel fair; [00:18.98]Her eyes was as bright as [00:21.48]The stars in the night [00:23.88]And wavy black was her hair [00:27.83] [00:33.99]He courted her both night and day [00:39.10]To marry they do agree; [00:43.00] [00:44.13]But when he came to get her parents consent [00:49.02]They said it could never be [00:52.59] [00:57.92]She threw herself in Willie Moore's arms [01:02.62]As of time had done before; [01:07.63]But little did he think when they parted that night [01:12.41]Sweet Anna he would see no more [01:16.33] [01:22.07]It was about the tenth of May [01:26.94]The time I remember well; [01:31.79]That very same night her body disappeared [01:36.54]In a way that no tongue could tell [01:41.36] [01:46.04]Sweet Annie was loved both far and near [01:51.11]She had friends of all around; [01:54.64] [01:55.95]And in a little brook before the cottage door [02:00.68]The body of sweet Anna was found [02:04.74] [02:10.00]She was taken by her weeping friends [02:15.10]And carried to her parent's room [02:19.95]And there she was dressed in a gown of snowy white [02:24.59]And laid her in a lonely tomb [02:29.80] [02:34.10]Her parents now are left all alone [02:38.99]One mourns while the other weeps; [02:43.78]And in a little brook besaid the cottage door [02:48.45]The body of sweet Anna still sleeps