Whistle Down The Wind Chords

KeyE Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays484

Whistle Down The Wind by Joan Baez is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords A, E, D, Bm, B7 and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
E
Text
16
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Intro 
A    E      A  D 
Bm   E      A  E 

Verse 
A         E      A         D 
I grew up here   all of my life 
      Bm           E       A  E 
But I dreamed some day I'd go 
          A         E             A      D 
Where the blue-eyed girls and the red guitars and 
    Bm    E      A       
The naked rivers flow 

D 
I'm not all I thought I'd be 
       A                     
I've always stayed around 
D 
And I've been as far as Mercy and Grand 
B7               E7       
Frozen to the ground 

A            E            A         D 
I can't stay here and I'm scared to leave 
   Bm      E        A     E 
So kiss me once and then 
A          E       A        D 
I'll go to hell, I might as well 
   Bm        E        A   
Be whistlin' down the wind 

Break 
D                    A     
 The bus is at the corner 
D               A    
Clock on the wall 
D                A 
 Broken down windmill 
                 B7  B7 
And no wind at all 
D                  A       
 I've yelled and I cursed 
D                    A     
 If I stay here I'll rust 
D                     A 
 I'm stuck like a shipwreck 
                E7   E7 
Out here in the dust 

Instrumental 
A E A D Bm E A E A E A D Bm E A E A 

           E           A          D 
The sky is red and the world's on fire 
        Bm      E           A   E 
And the corn is taller than me 
        A      E         A        D 
And the dog is tied to a wagon of rain 
        Bm      E           A   E 
And the road is wet as the sea 

D 
 Sometimes the music from a dance 
     A                        
Will carry across the plains 
D 
 Places I've been dreaming of 
      B7           E7   E7 
Dream only of your face 

          A      E          A      D 
There are places where they never sleep 
        Bm     E     A    E 
And the circus never ends 
   A      E        A           D 
So I will take the Marleybone coach 
         Bm        E        A     E 
And be   whistling down the wind 
   A      E        A          D 
So I will take the Marleybone coach 
        Bm        E        A    E 
And be  whistling down the wind 

Outro 
A E A D Bm E A 
    	

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