Lavenders Blue chords by Burl Ives

Lavender's Blue
Burl Ives

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


Verse:
D           A
Who told me so, dilly, dilly
G           D
Who told me so
G         D
I told myself, dilly, dilly
G      A   D D7
I told me so

Bridge:
G
If your dilly, dilly heart
       GM
Feels a dilly, dilly way
    D              D7
And if you answer, yes
A
In a pretty little church
Dsus (2323)
On a dilly, dilly day
Bm7     E7       A            A7
I'll be wed in a dilly, dilly dress


Verse:
   D         A
Of Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
G        D
Lavender green
G              D
Then you'll be king, dilly, dilly
     G      A7   D
And I'll be your queen


Interlude:
D                      G
Great-grandfather met great grandmother
     D                   A
When she was a shy young miss
     D                     G
And great-grandfather won great-grandmother
     D                        A7
With words more or less like this


Verse:
D        A
Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
G        D
Lavender green
G           D
If you were king, dilly, dilly
    A7
You need a queen
D             A
Who told you so, dilly, dilly
G            D
Who told you so
G       D
I told myself, dilly, dilly
G      A7  D
I told me so


Bridge:
G
If your dilly, dilly heart
       GM
Feels a dilly, dilly way
    D              D7
And if you answer, yes
A
In a pretty little church
Dsus (2323)
On a dilly, dilly day
Bm7     E7         A            A7
YOU'll be wed in a dilly, dilly dress


Verse:
D        A
Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
G        D
Lavender green
G               D
Then you'll be king, dilly, dilly
G   Em    A   A7      D   G  D
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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