Lavenders Blue chords

[VERSE]
[D]Lavender b[A]lue, dilly, dilly
[G]Lavender [D]green
[G]If you were k[D]ing, dilly, dilly
[A]You'd need a queen

[VERSE]
[D]Who told me [A]so, dilly, dilly
[G]Who told me [D]so
[G]I told mys[D]elf, dilly, dilly
[G]I told [A]me s[D]o [D7]

[BRIDGE]
[G]If your dilly, dilly heart
Feels a[GM] dilly, dilly way
And [D]if you answer, [D7]yes
[A]In a pretty little church
Dsus (2323)
On a dilly, dilly day
[Bm7]I'll be [E7]wed in a [A]dilly, dilly [A7]dress

[VERSE]
Of [D]Lavender b[A]lue, dilly, dilly
[G]Lavender [D]green
[G]Then you'll be [D]king, dilly, dilly
And I[G]'ll be [A7]your [D]queen

[INTERLUDE]
[D]Great-grandfather met g[G]reat grandmother
When [D]she was a shy young [A]miss
And g[D]reat-grandfather won g[G]reat-grandmother
With [D]words more or less like t[A7]his

[VERSE]
[D]Lavender [A]blue, dilly, dilly
[G]Lavender [D]green
[G]If you were [D]king, dilly, dilly
You [A7]need a queen
[D]Who told you s[A]o, dilly, dilly
[G]Who told you [D]so
[G]I told m[D]yself, dilly, dilly
[G]I told [A7]me s[D]o

[BRIDGE]
[G]If your dilly, dilly heart
Feels a[GM] dilly, dilly way
And [D]if you answer, [D7]yes
[A]In a pretty little church
Dsus (2323)
On a dilly, dilly day
[Bm7]YOU'll b[E7]e wed in a [A]dilly, dilly [A7]dress

[VERSE]
[D]Lavender [A]blue, dilly, dilly
[G]Lavender [D]green
[G]Then you'll be k[D]ing, dilly, dilly
[G]And [Em]I'll b[A]e [A7]Your que[D]en [G] [D]

The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1679,
under the name Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers.
The broadside indicates it is to be sung to the tune of "Lavender Green",
implying that a tune by that name was already in existence.
The lyrics printed in the broadside are fairly bawdy, celebrating sex and drinking.

The Burl Ives version featured in the film So Dear to My Heart was released in 1949.
Dinah Shore also released a version in 1949 which went to No 1 on the Australian chart.
It was the title track of her album Lavender Blue.