Down In The Willow Garden Chords
Down In The Willow Garden by Billie Joe And Norah is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, F#m and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro:
e|----|----------------------|
B|----|----------------------|
G|----|----------2-----------|
D|----|-------4-----4--------|
A|----|----4-----------4-----|
E|-4b-|-2-----------------2--| x2
A F#m
Down in the willow garden
A F#m
Where me and my love did meet
A F#m
As we sat a-courtin'
A E A
My love fell off to sleep
F#m A F#m
I had a bottle of Burgundy wine
A F#m
My love she did not know
A F#m
So I poisoned that dear little girl
A E F#m
On the banks below
e|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|----------2-----------|
D|-------4-----4--------|
A|----4-----------4-----|
E|-2-----------------2--| x2
A F#m
I drew a sabre through her
A F#m
It was a bloody knife
A F#m
I threw her in the river
A E A
Which was a dreadful sign
F#m A F#m
My father often told me
A F#m
That money would set me free
A F#m
If I would murder that dear little girl
A E A
Whose name was Rose Connelly
F#m A F#m A F#m A F#m A E F#m
A F#m
My father sits at his cabin door
A F#m
Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes
A F#m
For his only son soon shall walk
A E A
To yonder scaffold high
F#m A F#m
My race is run, beneath the sun
A F#m
The scaffold waits for me
A F#m
For I did murder that dear little girl
A E F#m
Whose name was Rose Connelly
F#m