Willie Moore

Willie Moore was a young man, his age 21

And he courted a damsel fair

Her eyes were as white as a diamond after night

And a wavy jet black wore her hair

He courted her night and day

Until marriage 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 often she'd done before

And little did he think when he left her that night

Sweet Annie he would see no more

It was about the 10th of May

A time I remember it well

That very same night little Annie disappeared

In a way no tongue could tell

Sweet Annie was loved both far and near

She had friends almost all around

And near a little brook not far from her home

The body of sweet Annie were found

Her parents now are left alone

One mourns while the other'n weeps

And near a grassy mound outside the cottage door

The body of sweet Annie sleeps

Willie Moore scarcely spoke to his friends they say

From the moment they both did part

And his last day was spent near his true lover's grave

Where he died of a broken heart