Willie Moore

Willie Moore - Burnett/Rutherford/Preston Young

Written by：Traditional

Willie Moore was a king his age twenty one

He courted a damsel fair

O her eyes was as bright

As the diamonds everynight

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 gown of snowy white

And laid her in a lonely tomb

Her parents now are left all alone

One mourns while the other 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

O I'll tell you his name but it is not

In full

His initials are J R D