Take Me Home, Country Roads
John Denver (Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver,1971)


4/4 | T3 - D u T4 - D u |
      1    2 & 3    4 &

| [G] ... Almost | heaven | [Em] ... West Vir- | ginia... |
| [D] ... Blue Ridge | mountains | [C] Shenandoah | [G] River | [G] |
| [G] ... Life is | old there | [Em] older than the | trees... |
| [D] Younger than the | mountains | [C] growing like a | [G] breeze

Chorus
Country | [G] roads... | ...take me | [D] home... | ... to the |
| [Em] place... | ... I be- | [C] long... |
| [C] ... West Vir- | [G] ginia... | ... mountain | [D] momma... |
| [D] ... Take me | [C] home... | ... country | [G] roads... | ... |

| [G] ...All my | memories | [Em] ... gather | round her |
| [D] ... miner's | lady... | [C] Stranger to blue | [G] water | ... |
| [G] ... Dark and | dusty | [Em] painted on the | sky ... |
| [D] Misty taste of | moonshine | [C] tear drop in my | [G] eye

Chorus
Country | [G] roads... | ... take me | [D] home... | ... to the |
| [Em] place... | ... I be- | [C] long ... |
| [C] ... West Vir- | [G] ginia... | ... mountain | [D] momma... |
| [D] ... Take me | [C] home... | ... country | [G] roads ... | ... |

Bridge
| [Em] I hear her | [D] voice
In the | [G] mornin' hours she | [G7] calls me
The | [C] radio re- | [G] minds me of my | [D] home far a- | way...
And | [Em] drivin' down the | [F] road I get the | [C] feelin'
That I | [G] should have been home |
| [D] yesterday... | ... yester- | [D7] day... | [D7]

Chorus
Country | [G] roads... | ... take me | [D] home... | ... to the |
| [Em] place... | ... I be- | [C] long ... |
| [C] ... West Vir- | [G] ginia... | ... mountain | [D] momma... |
| [D] ... Take me | [C] home... | ... country | [G] roads ... |
| [G] ...Take me | [D] home... | ... country | [G] roads... |
| [G] ...Take me | [D] home... | ... country | [G] roads... | [G!]


#Capo on 2 to play with original.
#last updated 2021/05/10 JJ
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