Bury Me Beneath the Willow (original) (raw)

"Bury Me Beneath the Willow" is a traditional ballad folk song, listed as number 410 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It is also known as "Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow", "The Weeping Willow", "The Willow Tree" and "Under the Willow Tree". Its author is unknown. The first citation to the song appears in Henry Marvin Belden's 1909 compilation Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society as "Under the Willow Tree".