Willie Moore-Burnett

[ti:Willie Moore]
[ar:Richard Burnett/Leonard Rut]
[al:American Murder Ballads]
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[00:00.00]Willie Moore - Burnett/Rutherford/Preston Young
[00:00.40]Written by：Traditional
[00:00.80]Willie Moore was a king his age twenty one
[00:05.05]He courted a damsel fair
[00:08.93]O her eyes was as bright
[00:11.11]As the diamonds everynight
[00:13.09]And wavy black was her hair
[00:20.92]He courted her both night and day
[00:24.82]'Til to marry they did agree
[00:28.71]But when he came to get her parents consent
[00:32.64]They said it could never be
[00:40.27]She threw herself in Willie Moore's arms
[00:44.25]As oftime had done before
[00:48.10]But little did he think when they parted that night
[00:51.92]Sweet Anna he would see no more
[01:18.52]It was about the tenth of May
[01:22.36]The time I remember well
[01:26.18]That very same night her body disappeared
[01:30.08]In a way no tongue could tell
[01:37.52]Sweet Annie was loved both far and near
[01:41.49]Had friends most all around
[01:45.56]And in a little brook before the cottage door
[01:49.30]The body of sweet Anna was found
[01:57.01]She was taken by her weeping friends
[02:00.81]And carried to her parent's room
[02:04.63]And there she was dressed
[02:06.65]In a gown of snowy white
[02:08.61]And laid her in a lonely tomb
[02:16.21]Her parents now are left all alone
[02:20.04]One mourns while the other weeps
[02:23.93]And in a grassy mound before the cottage door
[02:27.65]The body of sweet Anna still sleeps
[02:35.20]This song was composed in the flowery West
[02:39.06]By a man you May never have seen
[02:42.75]O I'll tell you his name but it is not
[02:45.80]In full
[02:46.78]His initials are J R D