Bear Creek Blues Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays476

Bear Creek Blues by A.P. Carter is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D 
Way up on Bear Creek 
Watching the sun go down 
G 
Way up on Bear Creek 
                   D 
Watching he sun go down 
         A7 
Well, it makes me feel like 
                  D 
I'm on my last go 'round 

D 
Well, the water up on Bear Creek 
Tastes like cherry wine 
          G 
Yeah, the water up on Bear Creek 
                   D 
Tastes like cherry wine 
    A7 
One drink of that water 
                       D 
You stay drunk all the time 

Instrumental:

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante