I’ve been doing some research on Radie Peat.
Radie Peat sings Willow Garden
Down in yon willow garden where me and my love did meet. It was there we sat a courting when my love fell off to sleep.
Well I had a bottle of Burglar’s wine. My love she did not know. It was there I poisoned that poor little girl, down on the banks below.
I drove my sabre through her, it was a bloody knife. I threw her into the river, it was a dreadful sight.
For my father often had told me, that money would set me free, if I would murder that poor little girl whose name was Rose Connolly.
Now my father stands at his cabin door, wiping his tear dimmed eyes, for his only son soon shall walk to yonder scaffold high.
For my race is run beneath the sun, the devil is waiting for me. For I did murder that poor little girl whose name was Rose Connolly.
And now it’s time to leave you all, it’s time to say my goodbyes. For they are going to stretch me up, between the earth and sky.
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