Paradise Valley Chords

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Paradise Valley by Seldom Scene is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, E, B and F#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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This is an old hymn arranged for bluegrass.  It's in 3/4 (waltz)       


      A                            D 
As we travel through life with its trouble and strife 
       E                             A 
I've a glorious hope to seat to give cheer on the way 
                                     D  
Soon this life will be o'er and I'll rest on that shore 
          E                          A 
Where the night has been turned into day 



A 
Up in paradise valley (up in the beautiful paradise valley) 
       D                    A 
By the side of the river of life (of the river of life) 
A 
Up in paradise valley (up in the valley, the wonderful valley) 
         B                          E 
We'll be free from all pain and all strife (from all pain and all strife) 
A 
There we'll live in the garden (there we shall live in the rose tinted garden) 
           D                       
'Neath the shade of the evergreen tree (of the evergreen tree) 
                            A      F#m 
How I long for the paradise valley (for the paradise valley) 
          B         E           A  
Where the beauty of heaven I'll see (beauty of heaven I'll see) 


Solo: use Chorus chords 


verse 2: 
     A                       D 
As I roam the hillside, oh I list to the tide, 
     E                            A   
As I pluck the sweet flowers that grow in the dale; 
                              D 
A faint picture is there of a land bright and fair 
         E                     A 
Where perennial flowers ne'er fail. 



A 
Up in paradise valley (up in the beautiful paradise valley) 
       D                    A 
By the side of the river of life (of the river of life) 
A 
Up in paradise valley (up in the valley, the wonderful valley) 
         B                          E 
We'll be free from all pain and all strife (from all pain and all strife) 
A 
There we'll live in the garden (there we shall live in the rose tinted garden) 
           D                       
'Neath the shade of the evergreen tree (of the evergreen tree) 
                            A      F#m 
How I long for the paradise valley (for the paradise valley) 
          B         E           A  
Where the beauty of heaven I'll see (beauty of heaven I'll see) 
    	

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

100 BPM Andante