Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green Chords

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Blue Ridge Mountains Turning Green by Charley Pride is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			G    C     D7                G 
Blue Ridge Mountains turning green 

         D7                   G 
Wanna go home again to see my mountain friends 

      C    D7          G 
Springtime opens up my heart 

         D7                          G 
Makes me want to share that good old mountain air 



C         D7 
Life's so young and free for all 

          C              D7 
For those who answer the Blue Ridge Mountain call 

G    C     D7                G 
Blue Ridge Mountains turning green 

           D7                   G 
I wanna go home again to see my mountain friends 



    C    D7                 G 
Sun-rise drinks the morning dew 

           D7                        G 
Walking on new plowed ground distant cowbells sound 

     C     D7              G 
Tall trees reach the misty blue 

          D7                                G 
All their leaves are green the shadows on a mountain stream 



C           D7 
Dogwood and mountain laurel bloom 

          C       D7 
A welcome mat for nature's living room 

G    C     D7                G 
Blue Ridge Mountains turning green 

         D7                   G 
Wanna go home again to see my mountain friends 



      C    D7             G 
Night-time gathers in the crowd 

              D7                     G 
Listen to the children sing hear the banjos ring 

     C     D7             G 
Blue Ridge Mountain music sound 

           D7                        G 
Comes from lonely hill the song of a whippoorwill 



C        D7 
Old time fiddles that I hear 

            C         D7 
Playing the tune that I love so dear 

G    C     D7                G 
Blue Ridge Mountains calling me 

           D7                   G 
I wanna go home again to see my mountain friends 

     C     D7                G 
Blue Ridge Mountains turning green 
    	

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