[Verse 1] My love, my love, won't you tell me true whose lamp was burnin' when the night came through they found his coat on the trestle beam but they never found him in the black millstream [Chorus] Down in the willows, down in the willows where the gray fog never lifts I'll wait in the cold (whoo-oo) where the dark river shifts down in the willows, where she sleeps [Verse 2] The sheriff come askin' and the preacher come too but the cold black water never told what it knew she smiled at the river and she combed her hair and the willows kept the secret that was buried there [Chorus] Down in the willows, down in the willows where the gray fog never lifts I'll wait in the cold (whoo-oo) where the dark river shifts down in the willows, where she sleeps [Fiddle Break] [Verse 3] So don't go walkin' by the water at night where the willows bend low and there ain't no light for a girl waits there with a stone-cold stare DOWN in the willows where the dead don't care [Final Chorus] Down in the willows, down in the willows where the gray fog never lifts I'll wait in the cold (whoo-oo) where the dark river shifts down in the willows, where she sleeps [Outro] down in the willows, where she sleeps
