[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[02:51.30]