Answer to weeping willow       (Listen to sample)

 

    D - G - D - A         - D - G - D - A - D

 

          D                          G

1. My love is dead and buried yonder

           D                                     A

    beneath the weeping willow tree.

                 D                           G

    What wrecks my life and makes me wonder

              D              A          D

    is because she died for me.

 

          D                        G                                       D                  A

Then lay me down in death beside her, for she's all this life to me,

      D                       G                             D           A            D

that I may join and e'er caress her, in a land beyond the sea.

 

+ D - G - D - A         - D - G - D - A - D

 

      D                       G

2. Yes, she died before I told her

              D                           A

    that I loved her true and kind,

             D                   G

    and that I did not mean to fool her,

                  D        A      D

    but she left me to repine.    

 

+ CHORUS      + D - G - D - A         - D - G - D - A - D

 

                D              G

3. God, shall I ever get forgiveness

                  D                         A

    for the deeds that I have done,

               D                     G

    and meet up yonder her sweet charming,

               D           A          D

    for I know she did me some.    + CHORUS

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)       (The Carter Family)