[00:01.39]Willie Moore was a king, his age twenty-one,
[00:05.46]He courted a damsel fair;
[00:09.48]O, her eyes was as bright as the diamonds every night,
[00:13.13]And wavy black was her hair.
[00:21.18]He courted her both night and day,
[00:25.16]'Til to marry they did agree;
[00:29.03]But when he came to get her parents consent,
[00:32.75]They said it could never be.
[00:40.91]She threw herself in Willie Moore's arms,
[00:44.39]As oftime had done before;
[00:48.37]But little did he think when they parted that night,
[00:52.10]Sweet Anna he would see no more.
[01:18.81]It was about the tenth of May,
[01:22.39]The time I remember well;
[01:26.56]That very same night, her body disappeared
[01:30.26]In a way no tongue could tell.
[01:38.14]Sweet Annie was loved both far and near,
[01:41.64]Had friends most all around;
[01:45.85]And in a little brook before the cottage door,
[01:49.61]The body of sweet Anna was found.
[01:57.44]She was taken by her weeping friends,
[02:00.89]And carried to her parent's room,
[02:04.95]And there she was dressed in a gown of snowy white,
[02:08.21]And laid her in a lonely tomb.
[02:16.49]Her parents now are left all alone,
[02:20.25]One mourns while the other one weeps;
[02:24.09]And in a grassy mound before the cottage door,
[02:27.77]The body of sweet Anna still sleeps.
[02:35.71]This song was composed in the flowery West
[02:39.17]By a man you may never have seen;
[02:43.05]O, I'll tell you his name, but it is not in full,
[02:46.91]His initials are J.R.D.4
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