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Take Me Home, Country Roads
John
Denver
Strum: B D D U D U
1 +
2 + 3 + 4 +
Intro: / G - - - / x4
G (2)
Em (2)
Almost heaven, West Virginia
D (2)
C G (2)
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah
River
G (2)
Em (2)
Life is old there, older than the
trees
D (2)
C
G
Younger
than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Chorus:
G (2) D (2)
Country roads, take me home
Em (2) C (2)
To the place I belong
G (2)
D (2)
West Virginia, mountain momma
C
(2)
G (2)
Take me home,
country roads
G (2) Em (2)
All my memories gather 'round her
D (2) C
G (2)
Miner's lady, stranger to blue
water
G (2)
Em (2)
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
D (2) C
G
Misty
taste of moonshine, teardrops in my eyes
Chorus
Em
D
G (2)
I hear her voice, in the morning hours
she calls to me
C
G
D (2)
The radio
reminds me of my home far away
Em
F
And drivin' down the road I get a
C
G
feeling
that I should have been home
D (2)
D7 (2, hold 2nd measure)
yesterday,
yesterday
Chorus x2
D (2)
G (2)
Take
me home down country roads
D (2)
/ G - - - / - - (hold) /
Take
me home down country roads
End
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
Best singalong song ever? Summer camps often make this their anthem by replacing the place names in the lyrics. I like to sing the first verse strumming once per chord, then start the strumming groove at the chorus. When singing this with others, be careful with the unusual extra bar at the end of the second line of each verse — some people just skip it. Either way, make your body language clear so everyone comes in on the third line at the same time.