Will It Grow Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Using straight forward fingerpicking rolls, but you can vary this).

The intro then moves back to open position C. With your picking hand, move the bass line

with your thumb and pick the treble strings with your first or second (or both)

fingers(again you can vary the picking pattern if you like as this is an approximation):

The rest of the chords are as follows (I tried to put the changes where they occur, but

you can listen to the recordings and watch the videos to work out the exact timing):

AmI made a promise toF7M not let Cgo

 Our tug of war has only made Gme want you F7Mmore

 Steeped in Ghard luck and Cdoomed to rF7Moam

 My love is bGraver than you knAmow

AmMy forefathers, they F7Mworked this lCand

 And I was schooled in the tyranny Gof nature's F7Mplans

 Dressed in Gthunder a Ccloud came aF7Mround

 Oh, in the shape of a lion aG hand came dAmown

Chorus

AmNow, damn this valley anF7Md damn this cCold

 Well, take so long to let meAm know

AmIt's plant and reap and F7Mplow and Csow

CBut tell me, will it Esus4grow?

Play the intro again before the next verse:

Am Dig my ditches in theF golden sCun

 I'd be robbing these trains if I couGld catch me oFne

 Now, Sunday, GMonday andC Tuesday's Fgone

 Got me stone cold sober inG a drought so Amlong

Boarded mansions and ghost filled yards

There's a boy in a water tower counting cars

Steel trap open in empty stalls

Now there's a well-worn saddle but the horse is gone

Repeat Chorus

Break

Am G/B C G F

Jet black starlit midnight rolls

I am down in the garden where I let you go

Up on the surface the earth looks round

But it's a godless city of cold flat ground

Chorus

(Use the same chords as in the break for the final refrains. The embellished "oh" sound

in "Will it Grow" moves right through the chord progression.)

 Will it gAmrow G/Boh grCow Goh F7Moh x2

Will it grow?

The last line is slightly more subdued than the preceding two, but the chords stay the same.

End on the intro.

A couple of the chords you might not be familiar with:

Notes on the chords used in the break and final chorus:

AmIf yG/Bou'reC a GgooF7Md fingerpicker, you can really embellish on the F chord here to find a

lot of the trademark notes. What I try to do is distill some of what the second guitar

plays into this little break. This is one of the only points where I deviate from

Jakob's use of the Fmaj7 chord in order to free up the pinkie on my left hand to play some of the

other embellishment notes.