Lyrics
Willie Moore was a young man, his age twenty-one And he courted a damsel fair Oh, her eyes were as bright as a diamond after night And wavy black was her hair He courted her by night and day Till on marriage they did agree But when he came to get her parents' consent They said that it never could 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
Oh, it was about the tenth of May The time I remember it well That very same night sweet Annie disappeared In a way no tongue can tell Sweet Annie was loved both far and near She had friends most all around And in the 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 And there she was dressed in a shroud of snowy white And laid in a lonely tomb
Her parents now are left alone One mourns while the other weeps Beneath the grassy mound there near the cottage door The body of sweet Annie sleeps
Willie Moore scarcely spoke to his friends they say Till at length from them all he did part And his last day was spent near his true lover's grave Where he died of a broken heart