{"id":29122,"date":"2026-01-11T23:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=29122"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:34:31","slug":"what-id-give-to-be-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/what-id-give-to-be-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’d Give to be The Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"
I believe this is the picking pattern for the opening part of song.  It is repeated at end of \r\nverses.\r\n\r\n \r\ne|--3-----3-----3-----3-|----3-----3-----3-----3-|\r\nB|--0-----0-----0-----0-|----0-----0-----0-----0-|\r\nG|--0-----0-----0-----0-|----0-----0-----0-----0-|\r\nD|----------2h3---2p0---|------------2h3---2p0---|\r\nA|----0h2---------------|------0h2---------------|\r\nE|3---------------------|-3----------------------|\r\n \r\n[Verse #1]\r\n \r\nG<\/span>                     C<\/span>                   G<\/span>\r\nI watch the wind blow brown leaves to the ground\r\n                   C<\/span>                  F<\/span>    D7<\/span>\r\nAnd blow along the side-walks of this town\r\nG<\/span>                        C<\/span>             G<\/span>             Em<\/span>\r\nI can see the wind as it blew her hair time and time again\r\n            C<\/span>        D7<\/span>         G<\/span>\r\nOh what I'd give Lord to be the wind\r\n \r\n[Verse #2]\r\n \r\n            C<\/span>              G<\/span>\r\nOh what I'd give to be the wind\r\n                         C<\/span>               D7<\/span>\r\nTo be free to leave this awful place I'm in\r\nG<\/span>                     C<\/span>             G<\/span>          Em<\/span>\r\nIt's hopeless cause I haven't got a penny or a friend\r\n            C<\/span>        D7<\/span>         G<\/span>\r\nOh what I'd give Lord to be the wind\r\n \r\n[Verse #3]\r\n \r\n               C<\/span>                G<\/span>\r\nThis same wind tomorrow will be gone\r\n                   C<\/span>                F<\/span>    D7<\/span>\r\nTo blow across the cotton fields of home\r\nG<\/span>                        C<\/span>             G<\/span>           Em<\/span>\r\nIt will gently touch the lovely face I long to touch again\r\n            C<\/span>        D7<\/span>         G<\/span>\r\nOh what I'd give Lord to be the wind\r\n \r\nRepeat [Verse #2]\r\n
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I believe this is the picking pattern for the opening part of song. It is repeated at end of verses. e|–3—–3—–3—–3-|—-3—–3—–3—–3-| B|–0—–0—–0—–0-|—-0—–0—–0—–0-| G|–0—–0—–0—–0-|—-0—–0—–0—–0-| D|———-2h3—2p0—|————2h3—2p0—| A|—-0h2—————|——0h2—————| E|3———————|-3———————-| [Verse #1] G C G I watch the wind blow brown leaves to the ground C F D7 And blow along the side-walks of … CLICK TO VIEW SONGWhat I’d Give to be The Wind<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29123,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29122\/revisions\/29123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}