Willie Moore

Willie Moore was a king, his age twenty-one
He courted a damsel fair
For her eyes were as bright as the diamonds at the night
And wavy black was her hair
He courted her both night and day
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 old times 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 Anna was loved both far and near
Had friends most all around
And in the little brook before the cottage door
The body of sweet Anna was found

She was taken by her weeping friends
And carried to her parents' room
And there she was dressed in a shroud of snowy white
And laid in a lowly tomb

Her parents now were left alone
One mourned and the other weeped
And in the 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
Oh I tell you his name was not in full
His initials are JRD