Whistle Down The Wind chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: Bb majorBb

Difficulty: Novice

Written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan 1992
Title song of Joan Baez' last album "Whistle Down The Wind" (2017)
Capo I

When twice E7, you can change from E7E7 1st fret to E7E7 bar chord on 7th fret
When twice B7, you can change from B7B7 1st fret to B7B7 bar chord on 7th fret

Intro:
A augmentedA  E MajorE   A augmentedA D MajorD
B minorBm  E MajorE   A augmentedA E MajorE

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

D MajorD
I'm not all I thought I'd be
    A augmentedA
I've always stayed around
D MajorD
And I've been as far as Mercy and Grand
B7B7        E7E7
Frozen to the ground

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

Break:
D MajorD          A augmentedA
 The bus is at the corner
D MajorD        A augmentedA
Clock on the wall
D MajorD        A augmentedA
 Broken down windmill
         B7B7 B7B7
And no wind at all
D MajorD         A augmentedA
 I've yelled and I cursed
D MajorD          A augmentedA
 If I stay here I'll rust
D MajorD           A augmentedA
 I'm stuck like a shipwreck
        E7E7  E7E7
Out here in the dust

Instrumental:
A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD B minorBm E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD B minorBm E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA

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

D MajorD
 Sometimes the music from a dance
   A augmentedA
Will carry across the plains
D MajorD
 Places I've been dreaming of
   B7B7      E7E7  E7E7
Dream only of your face

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

Outro:
A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD B minorBm E MajorE A augmentedA