Willow Tree

Written by John Whitney / Roger Chapman

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Appears On (4)

Anyway

1970 · LP · RSX 9005

A Song For Me/Anyway...

1989 · CD · LICD 9.21190 S

CD 2

The Essential Recordings

1989 · CD · CRCD 15.0013 (1–3), MLCD 9.00805 L, MLCD 9.00814 L, MLCD 9.00821 L

Lyrics

Willow tree wooden, were you once a woman,
Crying forlorn on the bank of a stream,
For some tragic loss of a friend or a lover,
Hoping that time will somehow intervene.

Is that all you need just someone to believe,
Stand under your boughs and reach out a hand,
The truth of the hand that touches your leaves,
Release you and end your perpetual stand.

Willow tree wooden, I've watched and waited,
Lit both by moonbeam and sun of the day,
Biding my time here, just sitting and thinking,
How many years before you fade away?

Personnel (Anyway, 1970): Whitney: bass; Chapman: vocal; Townsend: drums; Weider: violin; Palmer: piano

Chords

C - F - C - G(7)
A m - F
G - E - A
D - Gm 

Instrumental:
C - Dm - C - Dm
Em - Dm - Em - A

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