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