Willoughby Grove chords by Brook Benton

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D MajorD

🎸 Intro:

D MajorD  D7D7  D MajorD  D MajorD


🎸 Verse 1:
D MajorD        D7D7
 There's a house in Willoughby Grove
D MajorD        A minorAm
 It used to have  a wood burning stove
G+G     D MajorD      B minorBm    E7E7
 Lots of children playin in the yard
A7A7
 Life was good though the times were hard

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD     A augmentedA
 Here my mama say,(here my mama say)
Bm7Bm7 D MajorD
Papa fetch some wood
G+G              A augmentedA     D MajorD
 Growing up and Willoughby grove was good (grove was good)

🎸 Verse 2:
D MajorD       D7D7
 We were poor in Willoughby Grove
D MajorD        A minorAm
 Papa built the car we drove
G+G       D MajorD   Bm7Bm7          E minor 7Em7
Aah, there was space  and every hill was green
A7A7
  Water clear and here was so clean

🎸 Chorus:
D MajorD     A augmentedA
 Here my papa say
Bm7Bm7    D MajorD
Mama I'm a happy man
G+G             A augmentedA   D MajorD
 Wish I was in Willoughby grove again (grove again)

🎸 Bridge:
   E minorEm
But I had to see the world
A augmentedA         D MajorD
 The world outside
G+G       B minorBm     E minor 7Em7
 The one day I hitched a ride
    F#m7F#m7         B minorBm
I never had much reason to return
E minor 7Em7      D MajorD      A augmentedA
  Mama wrote till Papa died
  F# minorF#m          F#dimF#dim
Now she's going to his side
B minorBm         E7E7
 Lord what a sad return (so sad)
A7A7
  Ain’t nobody saying.

🎸 Verse 3:
D MajorD       D7D7
 Welcome home to Willoughby Grove
D MajorD             D MajorD
 You know the county paved the old dirt road
G+G        D MajorD
Aah, houses grow where meadows
Bm7Bm7    E7E7 A7A7
  Used to be in our yard as a factory
D MajorD             A augmentedA
 And there ain't nothing there to keep me now
Bm7Bm7        D MajorD
Looks like I'lI be moving on.

🎸 Outro:
    G+G          A augmentedA     D MajorD
I came home but Willoughby Grove was gone
    G+G          A augmentedA     D MajorD  B minorBm   D MajorD
I came home but Willoughby Grove was gone   gone