Biography:
Billie Joe, who is ranked one of the 10 of the most influential people in punk rock music, was born on February 17, 1972 in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of 6 children. His father, Andy, was a jazz musician and a truck driver for Safeway, who passed away of oesophagous cancer, in September 1982. Billie Joe was only 10 years old. His mother was a waitress at a restaurant called Rod's Hickory Pit. As soon as he started to talk he also began to
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"Down In The Willow Garden"
Intro:
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A F#m
Down in the willow garden
A F#m
Where me and my love did meet
A F#m
As we sat a-courtin'
A E A
My love fell off to sleep
F#m A F#m
I had a bottle of Burgundy wine
A F#m
My love she did not know
A F#m
So I poisoned that dear little girl
A E F#m
On the banks below
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G|----------2-----------|
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A F#m
I drew a sabre through her
A F#m
It was a bloody knife
A F#m
I threw her in the river
A E A
Which was a dreadful sign
F#m A F#m
My father often told me
A F#m
That money would set me free
A F#m
If I would murder that dear little girl
A E A
Whose name was Rose Connelly
F#m A F#m A F#m A F#m A E F#m
A F#m
My father sits at his cabin door
A F#m
Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes
A F#m
For his only son soon shall walk
A E A
To yonder scaffold high
F#m A F#m
My race is run, beneath the sun
A F#m
The scaffold waits for me
A F#m
For I did murder that dear little girl
A E F#m
Whose name was Rose Connelly
F#m
End
Intro:
e|----|----------------------|
B|----|----------------------|
G|----|----------2-----------|
D|----|-------4-----4--------|
A|----|----4-----------4-----|
E|-4b-|-2-----------------2--| x2
A F#m
Down in the willow garden
A F#m
Where me and my love did meet
A F#m
As we sat a-courtin'
A E A
My love fell off to sleep
F#m A F#m
I had a bottle of Burgundy wine
A F#m
My love she did not know
A F#m
So I poisoned that dear little girl
A E F#m
On the banks below
e|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|----------2-----------|
D|-------4-----4--------|
A|----4-----------4-----|
E|-2-----------------2--| x2
A F#m
I drew a sabre through her
A F#m
It was a bloody knife
A F#m
I threw her in the river
A E A
Which was a dreadful sign
F#m A F#m
My father often told me
A F#m
That money would set me free
A F#m
If I would murder that dear little girl
A E A
Whose name was Rose Connelly
F#m A F#m A F#m A F#m A E F#m
A F#m
My father sits at his cabin door
A F#m
Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes
A F#m
For his only son soon shall walk
A E A
To yonder scaffold high
F#m A F#m
My race is run, beneath the sun
A F#m
The scaffold waits for me
A F#m
For I did murder that dear little girl
A E F#m
Whose name was Rose Connelly
F#m
End
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