On the willows    (video)    (midi)

 

     G                                     - Em                  G

1.       On the willows there,            we hung up our lives,

Em                                 - A

    for our captors there          required,

Am         D       - Am               D                - G

    of us songs          and our tormentor's         mirth.

 

    G                                     - Em                 G

2.     On the willows there,            we hung up our lives,

Em                                 - A

    for our captors there          required,

Am         D       - Am               D                - G

    of us songs          and our tormentor's         mirth.

 

                  - G               Em            Am         Bb

     Saying:      "Sing us one of the songs of Zion,

G              Em            Am         Bb

    sing us one of the songs of Zion,

G              Em            Am          F

    sing us one of the songs of Zion."

 

           Em                F     Em                   F

    But how can we sing, sing the Lord's song,

Em     Dm        D       - D7 - G

    in a foreign land?

 

+ repeat verse 1 as instrumental

 

G                                     - Em                 D         G

    On the willows there,            we hung up our lives.

 

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Stephen Schwartz: “Godspell”, 1971)