Willow Garden Chords

KeyC Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays408

Willow Garden by Country Gentlemen is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords C, Am and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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Down (C)in the willow gar(Am)den 
My (C)love and I did (Am)meet 
And (C)there we sat a court(Am)ing 
My (C)love dropped (G)off to (C)sleep 
I (Am)had a bottle of (C)burgundy (Am)wine 
My (C)young love did not (Am)know 
And (C)there I poisoned that dear little (Am)girl 
Down (C)on the (G)banks be(C)low 
 
I drew my saber through her 
It was a bloody knife 
I threw her in the river 
It was a dreadful sight 
My father often told me 
That money would set me free 
If I did murder that dear little girl 
Whose name was Rose Connelly 
 
And now he sits in his own cabin door 
A-wiping his tear-brimmed eye 
A-looking at his only son 
On yonder scaffold high 
My race is run beneath the sun 
The devil is waiting for me 
For I did murder that dear little girl 
Whose name was Rose Connelly 
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante