A Beautiful Life Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays519

A Beautiful Life by Bill Monroe is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			 (A) 
Each day I'll do (each day I'll do) 
    (D)   (A) 
A golden deed ( a golden deed ) 
            (E) 
By helping those ( by helping those ) 
 
who are in need (who are in need) 
 
My life on earth (my life on earth) 
is but a span (is but a span) 
and so I'll do (and so I'll do the best I can) 
 
(chorus) 
              (A) 
Lifes evening sun (lifes evening sun) 
           (D) 
is sinking low (is sinking low) 
            (E) 
a few more days (a few more days) 
           (A) 
and I must go (and I must go) 
 
Too meet the deed (to meet the deed) 
That I have done (that I have done) 
where there will be (where there will be no setting sun) 
 
While travelling down (while travelling down) 
Lifes weary road (lifes weary road) 
I'll try to lessen (I'll try to lessen) 
some travellers road (some travellers road) 
I'll try to turn (I'll try to turn) 
The nights to day (the night to day) 
make flowers bloom ( make floweres bloom, along the way) 
 
(to chorus) 
 
 

    	

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).
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Metronome

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