Lavenders Blue by Burl Ives
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


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