Willoughby Grove chords by Brook Benton

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: D

🎸 Intro:

D    D7    D    D



🎸 Verse 1:
D                D7
  There's a house  in Willoughby Grove
D                Am
  It used to have   a wood burning stove
G         D            Bm        E7
  Lots of children playin in the yard
A7
  Life was good though the times were hard

🎸 Chorus:
D         A
  Here my mama say,(here my mama say)
Bm7  D
Papa  fetch some wood
G                           A         D
  Growing up and Willoughby grove was good (grove was good)

🎸 Verse 2:
D             D7
  We were poor  in Willoughby Grove
D                Am
  Papa built the car we drove
G              D     Bm7                    Em7
Aah, there was space    and every hill was green
A7
   Water clear and here was so clean

🎸 Chorus:
D         A
  Here my papa say
Bm7        D
Mama I'm a happy man
G                          A      D
  Wish I was in Willoughby grove again (grove again)

🎸 Bridge:
      Em
But I had to see the world
A                  D
  The world outside
G              Bm          Em7
  The one day I  hitched a ride
        F#m7                 Bm
I never had much reason to return
Em7           D           A
    Mama wrote  till Papa died
    F#m                    F#dim
Now she's going to his side
Bm                  E7
  Lord what a sad return (so sad)
A7
   Ain’t nobody saying.

🎸 Verse 3:
D             D7
  Welcome home  to Willoughby Grove
D                          D
  You know the county paved  the old dirt road
G                D
Aah, houses grow where meadows
Bm7        E7  A7
   Used to be  in our yard as a factory
D                         A
  And there ain't nothing there to keep me now
Bm7                D
Looks like I'lI be moving on.

🎸 Outro:
       G                   A         D
I came home but Willoughby Grove was gone
       G                   A         D    Bm      D
I came home but Willoughby Grove was gone     gone