One White Duck Chords

KeyG Capo4st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays400

One White Duck by Jethro Tull is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords G, C, D, Cadd9, Em, Em7, Bb, Am and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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          G                                                          C         D 
There's a haze on the skyline to wish me on my way   
G                                                                                    C       D  
   And there's a note on the telephone, some roses on a tray   
    D                                 Cadd9      D                    Em 
And the motorway's stretching,  right out to us all   
D                          Cadd9         D    Em7   D            Em          D  
   As I pull on my old wings, One White Duck on your wall   
            Bb         Am   
Isn't it just to damn real?   
Am                     D     Am  
One White Duck on your wall   
                 D     Am  
One duck on your wall  

             G                                                     C            D  
I'll catch a ride on your violin, strung up on your bow  
G                                                                                             C           D  
   And I'll float on your melody, sing your Chorus soft and low   
 D                                     Cadd9    EM  D           Em 
There's a picture-view postcard to say that I called  
    D                                    Cadd9   D      Em7   D            Em             D  
   You can see from the fireplace, One White Duck on your wall   
         Bb         Am  
Isn't it just to damn real?   
Am                                      D     Am  
One White Duck on your wall   
                                 D     Am  
One duck on your wall  
                               D    Em  
One duck on your wall  

G                                                   C                 G...F...G 
Something must be wrong with me and my brain  
G                            C       D 
if I'm so patently unrewarding. 
                    G                                         C               

But my dreams are for dreaming and best left that
 way 
               F                                  Cadd9                         G...F...G 
and my zero to your power of ten equals nothing at all.

 

G                                                                        C                 G...F...G 
There's no double-lock defense; there's no chain on my door.
 
G                    C              D 
I'm available for consultation, 
                 G                                     C           G...F...G 

But remember your way in is also my way out,  
                   F                              Cadd9               G...F...G 
and
love's four-letter word is no compensation. 
G                                                                    C                 G...F...G 


Well, I'm the Black Ace dog-handler:    I'm a waiter on 
skates 
 G                                              C                D 
so don't you jump to your foreskin conclusions.
 
                 G                                         C                       G...F...G 
Because I'm up to my deaf ears in cold breakfast trays  
               F                              C                                                         G 
to be cleared before I can dine on your sweet Sunday lunch confusion. 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante