Lavenders Blue chords by Burl Ives

Chords with lyrics

Lavender's Blue
Burl Ives

Verse:
D MajorD     A augmentedA
Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
G+G    D MajorD
Lavender green
G+G      D MajorD
If you were king, dilly, dilly
A augmentedA
You'd need a queen


Verse:
D MajorD      A augmentedA
Who told me so, dilly, dilly
G+G      D MajorD
Who told me so
G+G     D MajorD
I told myself, dilly, dilly
G+G   A augmentedA  D MajorD D7D7
I told me so

Bridge:
G+G
If your dilly, dilly heart
    GM
Feels a dilly, dilly way
  D MajorD       D7D7
And if you answer, yes
A augmentedA
In a pretty little church
DsusDsus (2323)
On a dilly, dilly day
Bm7Bm7   E7E7    A augmentedA      A7A7
I'll be wed in a dilly, dilly dress


Verse:
  D MajorD     A augmentedA
Of Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
G+G    D MajorD
Lavender green
G+G       D MajorD
Then you'll be king, dilly, dilly
   G+G   A7A7  D MajorD
And I'll be your queen

Interlude:
D MajorD           G+G
Great-grandfather met great grandmother
   D MajorD          A augmentedA
When she was a shy young miss
   D MajorD           G+G
And great-grandfather won great-grandmother
   D MajorD            A7A7
With words more or less like this


Verse:
D MajorD    A augmentedA
Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
G+G    D MajorD
Lavender green
G+G      D MajorD
If you were king, dilly, dilly
  A7A7
You need a queen
D MajorD       A augmentedA
Who told you so, dilly, dilly
G+G      D MajorD
Who told you so
G+G    D MajorD
I told myself, dilly, dilly
G+G   A7A7 D MajorD
I told me so


Bridge:
G+G
If your dilly, dilly heart
    GM
Feels a dilly, dilly way
  D MajorD       D7D7
And if you answer, yes
A augmentedA
In a pretty little church
DsusDsus (2323)
On a dilly, dilly day
Bm7Bm7   E7E7     A augmentedA      A7A7
YOU'll be wed in a dilly, dilly dress


Verse:
D MajorD    A augmentedA
Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
G+G    D MajorD
Lavender green
G+G        D MajorD
Then you'll be king, dilly, dilly
G+G  E minorEm  A augmentedA  A7A7   D MajorD  G+G D MajorD
And I'll be  Your queen

The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1679,
under the name Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers.
The broadside indicates it is to be sung to the tune of "Lavender Green",
implying that a tune by that name was already in existence.
The lyrics printed in the broadside are fairly bawdy, celebrating sex and drinking.


The Burl Ives version featured in the film So Dear to My Heart was released in 1949.
Dinah Shore also released a version in 1949 which went to No 1 on the Australian chart.
It was the title track of her album Lavender Blue.
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