‘We lay, my love and I

Beneath the weeping willow

But now alone I lie

And weep beside the tree

Singing “Oh willow waly”

By the tree that weeps with me

Singing “Oh willow waly”

Till my lover returns to me

We lay, my love and I

Beneath the weeping willow

But now alone I lie

Oh willow I die

Oh willow I die…’

—George Auric & Paul Dehn (O Willow Waly)