Doc Watson - Willlie Moore lyrics

Willie Moore was a king, his age twenty-one And he courted a damsel fair Oh her eyes were as bright as the diamonds after night And wavy black was her hair He courted her both night and day Till on marry they did agree But when he came to get her parents' consent They said that could never be Oh it was about the tenth of May The time I remember well That very same night her body disappeared In a way no tongue could tell Sweet Annie 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 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 a gra**y mound before the cottage door The body of sweet Annie sleeps Willie Moore scarcely spoke to his friends they say And at last from them all he did part And the last heard from him he was in Montreal Where he died of a broken heart