ByStrumming Pattern & Chords Used
- Verse Strumming: D – D-U-D – D-U
- Corus Strumming: D – D – D-U-D-U
- Chords Used: G, Em, C, D, D7,F
Guitar Chords for Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver
(G) Almost Heaven, (Em) West Virginia
(D) Blue Ridge Mountains, (C) Shenandoah (G)River
(G) Life is old there, (Em) older than the trees
(D) Younger than the mountains, (C) growin’ like a (G) breeze
[Corus]
(G) Country roads, (D) take me home
(Em) To the place (C) I belong
(G) West Virginia, (D) mountain mama
(C) Take me home, (G) country roads
[Verse 2]
(G) All my memories (Em) gather ’round her
(D) Miner’s lady, (C) stranger to (G) blue water
(C) Dark and dusty, (Em) painted on the sky
(D) Misty taste of moonshine, (C) teardrop in my (G) eye
[Chorus]
(G) Country roads, (D) take me home
(Em) To the place (C) I belong
(G) West Virginia, (D) mountain mama
(C) Take me home, (G) country roads
[Bridge]
(Em) I hear her (D) voice in the (G) mornin’ hour,
she calls me,
(C) The radio (G) reminds me of (D) my home far away
(Em) Drivin’ down the (F) road, I get a (C) feelin’
(G) That I should’ve been home (D) yesterday, (D7) yesterday
[Corus]
(G) Country roads, (D) take me home
(Em) To the place (C) I belong
(G) West Virginia, (D) mountain mama
(C) Take me home, (G) country roads
(D) Take me home, (G) country roads
(D) Take me home,(G) (down) country roads
(D) Take me home, (G) (down) country roads
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About Take Me Home, Country Roads, Song
Artist: John Denver
Album: Poems, Prayers & Promises (1971)
Genre: Country, Folk
Key: A Major
Tempo: 82 BPM
