The Garden Song Chords

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The Garden Song by Jason Upton is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, Bb, Dm and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
F
Text
16
Speed
  			
                       F 
I’m gonna build you a garden 
     Bb             F 
In a dry and desert land 
          Bb           Dm 
I’m gonna find a river there 
           C              F 
I’m gonna find the river there   x2 

verse 1 
           Bb            F 
For I have seen a garden grow 
     Bb                  C 
In a land filled with injustice 
F       Bb             Dm 
I have heard a mothers cry 
        C             F 
For her child to live again 

                       F 
I’m wanna build you a garden 
     Bb             F 
In a dry and desert land 
          Bb           Dm 
I’m gonna find a river there 
          C              F 
I’m gonna find the river there 

verse 2 

           Bb              F 
For I have seen a withered soul 
          Bb            F 
Fall like petals on the water 
C       Bb              Dm 
I have watched a flower grow 
F       C                 F 
Slowly rising towards the sun 

verse 3 

       Bb                 F 
No one knows what God has seen 
                Bb 
When humankind destroyed this 
C 
garden 
                  Bb 
But with bleeding hands 
                 Dm 
we’ll plant the seeds 

           Bb         C    Dm 
He’ll make all things new again 
           Bb         C     F 
He’ll make all things live again 

                     F 
I wanna build you a garden 
     Bb              F 
In a dry and desert land 
             Bb             Dm 
You’re gonna find the river there 
             C               F 
You’re gonna find the river there 
             Bb             Dm 
You’re gonna find the river there 
             C              F 
You’re gonna find the river there 
             Bb             Dm 
You’re gonna find the river there 
         C                 F 
You have found this river here. 
    	

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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante