Lagu tersebut muncul sebagai trek kedua dalam debut album solo pertamanya yang diberi nama Angel Clare.
Album yang berisikan 10 trek tersebut dirilis pada 1973 melalui label Columbia Records dan berhasil menduduki posisi ke-5 di US Billboard 200.
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Down in the Willow Garden” dari Art Garfunkel:
Capo 1
G Em
Down in the willow garden
G Em
Where me and my love did meet,
G Em
As we set there a courtin',
G D G
My love fell off to sleep.
Em G/F# G
I had a bottle of burgundy wine,
G Em
My love she did not know.
G Em
So I poisoned that dear little girl
G D G
On the banks below.
G Em
I drew a saber through her,
G Em
It was a bloody knife,
G Em
I threw her in the river,
G D G
Which was a dreadful sight.
Em G/F# G
My father often had told me
G Em
That money would set me free
G Em
If I would murder that dear little girl
G D G
Whose name was Rose Connelly.
G Em
My father sits at his cabin door,
G Em
Wiping his tear dimmed eyes,
G Em
For his only son soon shall walk
G D G
To yonder scaffold high.
Em G/F# G
My race is run beneath the sun,
G Em
The scaffold now waits for me,
G Em
For I did murder that dear little girl
G D Em
Whose name was Rose Connelly.
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