How Mountain Girls Can Love Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays518

How Mountain Girls Can Love by Ralph Stanley is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords G, D and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			INTRO: G D G D G 

C             G 
Get down boys go back home 
D                    G 
Back to the girl you love 
C               G 
Treat her right never wrong 
D                       G 
How mountain girls can love 

 
G 
Riding the night in the high cold wind 
        D                         G 
On the trail of that old lonesome pine 
G 
Thinkin' of you feeling so blue 
D                        G 
Wonderin' why I left you behind 
 
***CHORUS*** 
 
G 
Remember the night we strolled down the lane 
           D                  G 
Our hearts were gay and happy then 
G 
You whispered to me when I held you close 
D                               G  
We hoped that night would never end 
 
***CHORUS*** 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante