Willie Moore Lyrics - Cold As The Clay - Greg Graffin

Willie Moore was a young man, his age 21 

And he courted a damsel fair 

Her eyes were as white as a diamond after night 

And a wavy jet black wore her hair 

He courted her night and day 

Until marriage they did agree 

But when he came to get her parents consent 

They said it could never 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 

It was about the 10th of May 

A time I remember it well 

That very same night little Annie disappeared 

In a way no tongue could tell 

Sweet Annie was loved both far and near 

She had friends almost all around 

And near a little brook not far from her home 

The body of sweet Annie were found 

Her parents now are left alone 

One mourns while the other'n weeps 

And near a grassy mound outside the cottage door 

The body of sweet Annie sleeps 

Willie Moore scarcely spoke to his friends they say 

From the moment they both did part 

And his last day was spent near his true lover's grave 

Where he died of a broken heart