Willy Dear chords by The Tillers

Chords with lyrics

The Tillers
Willy Dear

Through some nice country hammers while playing the chords.
Walk the bass note from the G+G > F#F# > Em.


G+G C majorC G+G
D MajorD G+G C majorC G+G
G MajorG E minorEm
G+G C majorC G+G


  G+G         C majorC              G+G
Oh Willy Dear you've got a mind to leave me once again.

 D MajorD       G+G         C majorC         G+G
I see your ship upon the shore and freight all loaded in'

 G+G                          E minorEm
"Oh Lizzy dear you know that I must ship out with the crew.

  G+G               C majorC         G+G
And though the river carries me my heart remains with you"

 G+G     C majorC                 G+G
Willy's ship departed from the docks early next day

 D MajorD        G+G    C majorC      G+G
Elizabeth looked on as he floated far away

     G+G                         E minorEm
From the house upon the hill she'd wait and watch the rver bend

    G+G                C majorC      G+G
For the ship to bring her own true love safely home again


  G+G         C majorC                    G+G
He toiled aboard the boat for months with hands so rough and raw

  D MajorD       G+G       C majorC        G+G
She waited for a letter as the sun did rise and fall

 G+G                          E minorEm
Until one day she saw the smoke and heard the hissing steam

  G+G               C majorC      G+G
The weary ship returning from the haul to New Orleans

E minorEm C majorC G+G


   G+G      C majorC                 G+G
Just then a loud explosion broke and trembled hills around

  D MajorD        G+G       C majorC         G+G
Her eyes so wide in horror as the tears came pouring down

   G+G                           E minorEm
From bow to stern the ship did burn, she heard the sailor's cry

  G+G                  C majorC       G+G
The flame and fire of rapture lighting up the midnight sky


   G+G        C majorC                G+G
Then with a trembling hand upon the pen she wrote for he

   D MajorD        G+G       C majorC      G+G
"The world can show no beauty if with you I cannot be

  G+G                       E minorEm
Oh loneliness, I can't endure to drown in sorrows tide

  G+G            C majorC       G+G
I go to meet my Willy dear upon the other side"


   G+G        C majorC               G+G
Next day a ship come rolling in and anchored in the wake

 D MajorD        G+G      C majorC        G+G
Aboard was Willy Thompson on arrival one day late

 G+G                         E minorEm
As fast as he could travel, and through the door he broke

 G+G                   C majorC       G+G
And up the stairs he found his darling hanging from a rope


E minorEm C majorC G+G
D MajorD G+G C majorC G+G
G MajorG E minorEm
G+G C majorC G+G


  G+G         C majorC               G+G
Now time did pass for Willy as he walked this world alone

  D MajorD        G+G          C majorC         G+G
But time stood still upon the hill where sat poor Lizzie's home

  G+G                       E minorEm
And now so still and quiet there stands the open door

  G+G               C majorC       G+G
The dust upon the window pane and shadows on the floor


   G+G        C majorC                G+G
It's eighteen stairs will bring her up to the widow's walk

   D MajorD        G+G      C majorC         G+G
And five windows for a view the rusted steam ship docks

  G+G                      E minorEm
Is Lizzy standing by the chair or is she in the hall

  G+G              C majorC         G+G
Or is she in the corner with her pale face to the wall


G+G C majorC E minorEm
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G
G MajorG E minorEm
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G


G+G C majorC E minorEm
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G
G MajorG E minorEm