Singing O Willow Waly by the tree that weeps with me, singing O Willow Waly 'til my lover returns to me. We lay my love and I beneath a weeping willow, but now alone I lie. The Innocents, from the greatest Ghost Story ever written, The Turn of the Screw. The Innocents - 1961 Directed by Jack Clayton 'We lay my love and I beneath a weeping willow, but now alone I lie and weep beside the tree. Oh Willow I die, Oh willow I die'.