Banks of the Ohio

I asked my love to take a walk Just a walk a little way And as we walk, oh, may we talk All about our wedding day Only say that you'll be mine In our home we'll happy be Down beside where the waters flow On the banks of the Ohio I held a knife against her breast As into my arms she pressed She said Willie, don't you murder me I'm unprepared for eternity I took her by her lily white hand And dragged her down that bank of sand There I throwed her in to drown I watched her as she floated down Was walking home tween twelve and one Thinkin' of what I had done I killed a girl, my love you see Because she would not marry me The very next morn about half past four The Sheriff came knocked at my door He said now young man come now and go Down to the Banks of the Ohio