Country Roads

John Denver

Verse-1:

G	Em	D
Almost heaven	West Virginia	blue ridge mountains,

C	G	G	Em
Shenadoah	river.	Life is old there	older than the trees,

D	C	G
younger than the mountains,	growing like	a breeze.

Chorus

	G	D	Em	C
Country	roads, take me	home to the	place, I be	long

	G	D	C	G
West Vir	ginia, mountain	momma, take me	home, country	roads.

Verse-1:

G	Em	D
All my memories	gather round her,	miner’s lady,

C	G	G	Em
stranger to	blue water.	Dark and dusty	painted on the sky

D	C	G
misty taste of moonshine	tear drop in	my eye.

Chorus

	G	D	Em	C
Country	roads, take me	home to the	place I be	long

	G	D	C	G
West Vir	ginia mountain	momma take me	home country	roads.

Bridge:

Em	D	G
I hear her	voice in the	mornin’ hours she calls me

	C	G	D	Em
the	radio re	minds me of my	home far away, and	drivin’ down

	F	C	G
the	road I get the	feelin’ that I should	have been home

D	D7
yesterday,	yesterday.

Chorus

	G	D	Em	C	G
Country	roads take me	home the	place I be	long, West Vir	ginia

	D	C	G	D	G
mountain	momma take me	home country	roads take me	home country	roads

Coda

	D	G
Take me	home country	roads.