Take Me Home Country Roads
John Denver
- Page
- 176
- Key
- A
- Tempo
- 82
- Year
- 1978
Intro
G
G
Verse 1
G
Almost Heaven,
Em
West Virginia
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
growin' like a
G
breeze
Chorus 1
Country
G
roads, take me
D
home
To the
Em
place I be-
C
long
West Vir-
G
ginia, mountain
D
mama
Take me
C
home, country
G
roads
Verse 2
G
All my memories
Em
gather 'round her
D
Miner's lady,
C
stranger to blue
G
water
G
G
Dark and dusty,
Em
painted on the sky
D
Misty taste of moonshine,
C
teardrop in my
G
eye
Chorus 2
Country
G
roads, take me
D
home
To the
Em
place I be-
C
long
West Vir-
G
ginia, mountain
D
mama
Take me
C
home, country
G
roads
Bridge
Em
I hear her
D/F#
voice, in the
G
mornin' hour she calls me
The
C
radio re-
G
minds me of my
D
home far away
And
Em
drivin' down the
F
road I get a
C
feelin' that I
G
should have been home
D
yesterday, yester-
D7
day
Chorus 3
Country
G
roads, take me
D
home
To the
Em
place I be-
C
long
West Vir-
G
ginia, mountain
D
mama
Take me
C
home, country
G
roads
Chorus 4
Country
G
roads, take me
D
home
To the
Em
place I be-
C
long
West Vir-
G
ginia, mountain
D
mama
Take me
C
home, country
G
roads
Outro
Take me
D
home, (down) country
G
roads
Take me
D
home, (down) country
G
roads