The little flower girl Chords
by Jethro Tull
The little flower girl by Jethro Tull is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Am, E, F#m, F#m/F, Em, D, Dsus4, A, B, B7, Cmaj7, C, Am7 and B7sus4. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro:
Am E sus4
-5---5---5-7-5------4---4---4-5-4---
-5---5---5-5-5------5---5---5-5-5---
-5---5---5-5-5------4---4---4-4-4--- repeat 3 times
-7---7---7-7-7------x---x---x-x-x---
-x---x---x-x-x------x---x---x-x-x---
-x---x---x-x-x------x---x---x-x-x---
F#m F#m/F E...................
-2---2---2-4-2-
-2---2---2-2-2-
-2---2---2-2-2-
-4---4---3-3-3-
-x---x---x-x-x-
-x---x---x-x-x-
Em D (Dsus4)
Down at the church the flower girl sits.
Em A
Legs innocent, apart.
Em D B (B7)
I make the picture puzzle fit to start your heart.
Em D (Dsus4)
Painted sister stopped beside.
Em A
A word upon her saintly lip.
Em D B (B7)
Perhaps admonishing the child inside the open slit.
Em Cmaj7 D B7
I don't know know where she might go when she runs home at night.
Em C D B
It's for the best: I wouldn't rest when I turned out the light.
Am7 B7sus4 B7 Cmaj7 A
No little flower girl singing in my troubled dream -
Em D B
just an old man's model in a pose from a magazine.