Whose Garden Was This Chords

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Whose Garden Was This by John Denver is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Am, D, Bm and Em. 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 
Whose garden was this 
   C              Am 
It must have been lovely 
D 
Did it have flowers 
          Bm 
I've seen pictures of flowers 
        C            Em 
And I'd love to have smelled one 
      G 
Whose river was this 
    C          Am 
You say it ran freely 
D 
Blue was its color 
          Bm 
I've seen blue in some pictures 
        C            Em 
And I'd love to have been there 
 
G 
Tell me again I need to know 
    C          Am        D 
The forest had trees the meadows were green 
    Em                   D 
The oceans were blue and birds really flew 
        C      
Can you swear   
Bm       Em    D 
That its true 
 
G  
Whose gray sky was this 
   C             Am 
Or was it a blue one 
D 
You say there were breezes 
           Bm 
I've heard records of breezes 
        C            Em 
And I'd love to have felt one 
 
G 
Tell me again I need to know 
    C          Am        D 
The forest had trees the meadows were green 
    Em                   D 
The oceans were blue and birds really flew 
        C      
Can you swear   
Bm       Em    D 
That its true 
 
      G 
Whose garden was this 
   C              Am 
It must have been lovely 
D 
Did it have flowers 
          Bm 
I've seen pictures of flowers 
        C            Em 
And I'd love to have smelled one 
G 
Tell me again I need to know 
Em                      G 
Tell me again I need to know 
Em                      G 
Tell me again I need to know 
Em                      G 
Tell me again I need to know 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante