The Garden of Love

This is the title track of Redbone's "Garden of Love" album. The album is the songs of William Blake.

I laid me down upon a bank
Where Love lay sleeping
I heard among the rushes dank
Weeping, weeping
D7 - - / - - - - / G7 - - - / D7 - - - 

Then I went to the heath and the wild
To the thistles and thorns of the waste
And they told me how they were beguiled
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste

I went to the Garden of Love
And saw what I never had seen
A chapel was built in the midst
Where I used to play on the green

And the gates of this Chapel were shut
And "Thou shalt not," writ over the door
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore

And I saw it was filled with graves
And tombstones where flowers should be
And priests in black gowns were walking their rou-ou-ou-ounds
And binding with briars my joys and desires 
D7 - - - / - - - - / G7 - - D7 / A7 G7 D7 - 

I went to the Garden of Love (3x) 

lyrics & music by Martha Redbone. All rights reserved.