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Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)
Words & Music by Larry Morey & Eliot Daniel*
Recorded by Burl Ives, 1949
D Em7 Edim D Am7 D9 G A7 Em7 D D7
Lav - en - der blue, dilly-dilly, lav - en - der green
G A7 Em7 D F#m Bm E E7/6 Bm7-5 A7
If I were king, dilly-dilly, I'd need a queen
D Em7 Edim D Am7 D9 G A7 Em7 D D7
Who told me so?, dilly-dilly who told me so?
G A7 Em7 D F#m Bm G Em7 A7 D
I told my - self, dilly-dilly, I told me so.
D7 G G/F# Em7 Em6 G G/F# Em7 Em6
If your dilly-dilly heart feels a dilly-dilly way,
F#m Cdim F#m B7
If you'll answer yes,
A D9 A E A D9 A
In a pretty little church on a dilly-dilly day
E D9 A E7 A Em7 D9 A7
You'll be wed in a dilly-dilly dress of
D Em7 Edim D Am7 D9 G A7 Em7 D D7
Lav - en - der blue, dilly-dilly, lav - en - der green
G A7 Em7 D F#m Bm G Em7 A7 D D7
Then I'll be king, dilly-dilly, you'll be my queen.
G5 G6 - G5 A7- G/B D A7 D7 G A7 A7+5 D
Then I'll be king, dilly-dilly, you'll be my queen.
*While Morey and Daniel may have authorship credits on Ives' version of the song, the song itself dates back to the late 1600s in England, and has been revived in a variety of forms over the centuries -- the most notable recent version having been Sammy Turner's version from 1959, which hit #14 on the American pop music charts.
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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