Biography:
The Tillers got their start in August 2007 when they started thumping around with some banjos and guitars and a big wooden bass. Their earliest gigs were for coins and burritos on the city’s famous Ludlow Street in the district of Clifton. The songs they picked were mostly older than their grandparents. Some came from Woody Guthrie, some were southern blues laments, and many were anonymous relics of Appalachian woods, churches, riverboats, railroads, prairies, and coal mines.
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The Tillers
Willy Dear
Through some nice country hammers while playing the chords.
Walk the bass note from the G > F# > Em.
G C G
D G C G
G Em
G C G
G C G
Oh Willy Dear you've got a mind to leave me once again.
D G C G
I see your ship upon the shore and freight all loaded in'
G Em
"Oh Lizzy dear you know that I must ship out with the crew.
G C G
And though the river carries me my heart remains with you"
G C G
Willy's ship departed from the docks early next day
D G C G
Elizabeth looked on as he floated far away
G Em
From the house upon the hill she'd wait and watch the rver bend
G C G
For the ship to bring her own true love safely home again
G C G
He toiled aboard the boat for months with hands so rough and raw
D G C G
She waited for a letter as the sun did rise and fall
G Em
Until one day she saw the smoke and heard the hissing steam
G C G
The weary ship returning from the haul to New Orleans
Em C G
G C G
Just then a loud explosion broke and trembled hills around
D G C G
Her eyes so wide in horror as the tears came pouring down
G Em
From bow to stern the ship did burn, she heard the sailor's cry
G C G
The flame and fire of rapture lighting up the midnight sky
G C G
Then with a trembling hand upon the pen she wrote for he
D G C G
"The world can show no beauty if with you I cannot be
G Em
Oh loneliness, I can't endure to drown in sorrows tide
G C G
I go to meet my Willy dear upon the other side"
G C G
Next day a ship come rolling in and anchored in the wake
D G C G
Aboard was Willy Thompson on arrival one day late
G Em
As fast as he could travel, and through the door he broke
G C G
And up the stairs he found his darling hanging from a rope
Em C G
D G C G
G Em
G C G
G C G
Now time did pass for Willy as he walked this world alone
D G C G
But time stood still upon the hill where sat poor Lizzie's home
G Em
And now so still and quiet there stands the open door
G C G
The dust upon the window pane and shadows on the floor
G C G
It's eighteen stairs will bring her up to the widow's walk
D G C G
And five windows for a view the rusted steam ship docks
G Em
Is Lizzy standing by the chair or is she in the hall
G C G
Or is she in the corner with her pale face to the wall
G C Em
G C D G
G Em
G C D G
G C Em
G C D G
G Em
G C D G
Willy Dear
Through some nice country hammers while playing the chords.
Walk the bass note from the G > F# > Em.
G C G
D G C G
G Em
G C G
G C G
Oh Willy Dear you've got a mind to leave me once again.
D G C G
I see your ship upon the shore and freight all loaded in'
G Em
"Oh Lizzy dear you know that I must ship out with the crew.
G C G
And though the river carries me my heart remains with you"
G C G
Willy's ship departed from the docks early next day
D G C G
Elizabeth looked on as he floated far away
G Em
From the house upon the hill she'd wait and watch the rver bend
G C G
For the ship to bring her own true love safely home again
G C G
He toiled aboard the boat for months with hands so rough and raw
D G C G
She waited for a letter as the sun did rise and fall
G Em
Until one day she saw the smoke and heard the hissing steam
G C G
The weary ship returning from the haul to New Orleans
Em C G
G C G
Just then a loud explosion broke and trembled hills around
D G C G
Her eyes so wide in horror as the tears came pouring down
G Em
From bow to stern the ship did burn, she heard the sailor's cry
G C G
The flame and fire of rapture lighting up the midnight sky
G C G
Then with a trembling hand upon the pen she wrote for he
D G C G
"The world can show no beauty if with you I cannot be
G Em
Oh loneliness, I can't endure to drown in sorrows tide
G C G
I go to meet my Willy dear upon the other side"
G C G
Next day a ship come rolling in and anchored in the wake
D G C G
Aboard was Willy Thompson on arrival one day late
G Em
As fast as he could travel, and through the door he broke
G C G
And up the stairs he found his darling hanging from a rope
Em C G
D G C G
G Em
G C G
G C G
Now time did pass for Willy as he walked this world alone
D G C G
But time stood still upon the hill where sat poor Lizzie's home
G Em
And now so still and quiet there stands the open door
G C G
The dust upon the window pane and shadows on the floor
G C G
It's eighteen stairs will bring her up to the widow's walk
D G C G
And five windows for a view the rusted steam ship docks
G Em
Is Lizzy standing by the chair or is she in the hall
G C G
Or is she in the corner with her pale face to the wall
G C Em
G C D G
G Em
G C D G
G C Em
G C D G
G Em
G C D G
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