Gathering Flowers From The Hillside

Traditional

Key of G · Chords: I IV V VII

Chorus

          G
I’ve been gathering flowers from the hillside
                      D7
To wreath around your brow
           G
But you’ve kept me a-waitin’ so long, dear
                 D7  G
The flowers have all withered now

Verse 1

  C
I know that you have seen trouble
                         G7
But never hang down your head
     C
Your love for me is like the flowers
              G7 C
Your love for me is dead

Verse 2

       G
It was on one bright June morning
                  D7
The roses were in bloom
  G
I shot and killed my darling
              D7 G  G7
And what will be my doom?

Verse 3

       F
Closed eyes cannot see these roses
                               C7
Closed hands cannot hold them, you know
And these lips that still cannot kiss me
              C7 F
Has gone from me forever more