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The Mock Turtles – Wicker Man Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

ChordsAm Cadd9 G Fadd9 Em7 D Dsus4 E G#m Bsus2 Bsus4 C#mG/BDsus2 F#m F#mmaj7add9F#m7B A

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[Intro]
Am      Cadd9   G      Fadd9
Em7    D  Dsus4  D  Cadd9   Cadd9
Am      Cadd9   G      Fadd9
Em7    D  Dsus4  D  Cadd9   Cadd9

[Verse 1]
        E          G#m
I had a friend who came from
     Bsus2  Bsus4  Bsus2
far away
          C#m          G#m
And every day we would go down
       Bsus2         Bsus4  Bsus2
by the river and play
Cadd9           G/B
 Like long lost summers of
     D   Dsus4  D  Dsus2  D
 the past
      Cadd9       G/B
These interrupted games weren’t
         D   Dsus4  D  Dsus2  D
meant to last

[Chorus]
Am         Cadd9               G
 I sit and watch the lights go out
    Fadd9              Em7
 on my home my growing up town
    D  Dsus4  D        Cadd9
And I wonder what he’s doing now
Am          Cadd9          G
 And I will build a wicker man and
 Fadd9                Em7
 put inside all those things
     D  Dsus4  D   Cadd9
That make me old before my time

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[Post-Chorus]
F#m           F#mmaj7add9   F#m7
 We found his auntie’s holy water
       B                  F#m
 and refilled it from the tap
                 F#mmaj7add9
"She’ll bless herself with good
    F#m7      B
ole H2O!", he said
A
Oh god, we laughed and laughed

[Verse 2]
E             G#m            Bsus2
 We wrote our names in new cement
                Bsus4  Bsus2
 beside the river
          C#m
We really thought that they would
G#m      Bsus2        Bsus4  Bsus2
last for ever and ever
Cadd9         G/B
 But late one night when
         D   Dsus4  D  Dsus2  D
 walking home
           Cadd9              G/B
I couldn’t find the names the place
        D   Dsus4  D  Dsus2  D
had overgrown

[Chorus]
Am         Cadd9               G
 I sit and watch the lights go out
    Fadd9              Em7
 on my home my growing up town
    D  Dsus4  D        Cadd9
And I wonder what he’s doing now
Am          Cadd9          G
 And I will build a wicker man and
 Fadd9                Em7
 put inside all those things
     D  Dsus4  D   Cadd9
That make me old before my time

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[Post-Chorus]
F#m        F#mmaj7add9        F#m7
 Born in a booming "instant potato"
       B                F#m
 age a teeshirt full of youth
            F#mmaj7add9
Discovering sex and cigarettes
F#m7      B
and oh I know
D
 But it was all true!

[Chorus]
Am         Cadd9               G
 I sit and watch the lights go out
    Fadd9              Em7
 on my home my growing up town
    D  Dsus4  D        Cadd9
And I wonder what he’s doing now
Am        Cadd9         G
 And if I really have a call,
     Fadd9                  Em7
 I’d catch them all as they fall
D  Dsus4  D  Cadd9
 And say:    Daddy’s home

How to play Wicker Man: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for Wicker Man by The Mock Turtles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

To play Wicker Man by The Mock Turtles, think in G major (one sharp: F♯). It takes 19 chords: Am, Cadd9, G, Fadd9, Em7, D, Dsus4, E, G#m, Bsus2, Bsus4 and C#m and 7 more.

Listen for Am – Cadd9 – G – Fadd9 (ii – IVadd9 – I – ♭VIIadd9 in G major): the song comes back to it again and again. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Good to know: Fadd9, G#m, Bsus2, Bsus4 and C#m are the tricky part on guitar (barre or movable shapes). Slow the change down until it is clean; on piano and ukulele they are simpler.