Luke Abbott - Willie Moore lyrics

Willie Moore was a king, his age twenty-one He courted a lady fair Oh, her eyes were as bright as the diamonds in the night And wavy black was her hair He courted her both night and day 'Til to marry they did agree But when he went to get her parents' consent They said it could never be She threw herself in Willie Moore's arms As ofttimes had done before But little did he think when they parted that night Sweet Annie he would see no more It was on about the tenth of May The time I remember well The 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 a little brook before the cottage door The body of sweet Annie was found She was taken by her weeping friends And carried to her parents' room Her head was wrapped in a shroud of snowy white And laid in a lonely tomb Her parents now are left alone One mourns while the other weeps And in the gra**y mound before the cottage door The body of sweet Anna sleeps Willie Moore never spoke that anyone knew And at length from his friends did part And the last I heard of him, he'd gone to Montreal Where he died of a broken heart