John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads  –

Album: Poems, Prayers & Promises(1971)

!!! Capo: 2nd fret !!!   Key: A  [164 bpm]

G,                             Em,                 

 Almost Heaven; West Virginia,

               D,                         C     –       G

Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.

 Life is old there, older than the trees,

younger than the mountains, Growin’ like a breeze.

         G                             D              Em                   C

Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong,

         G                             D              C                      G

West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.

G,    Em,  D, C – G

 All my memories gather round her,

miner’s lady, stranger to blue water.

 Dark and dusty, painted on the sky,

misty taste of moonshine, Teardrop in my eye.

 [Chorus]

 Em                   D                     G                     G

   I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me,

        C               G             D                    D

The radio reminds me of my home far away.

        Em                     F                 C

And driving down the road I get a feeling

                   G                                      D                 D7

      That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.

 [Chorus] x2

                D              G                              D                              G

Take me home, country roads; take me home, down country roads