Guitar chords Take me home, country roads

Country Roads was written by John Denver, Bill Danoff, and Taffy Nivert, and was partially inspired by a back road in Maryland. Denver described how he felt peaceful and content in the countryside, which inspired the songs lyrics.

Key:  G
Introduction:
G
  
G/D
  x4
G
              
Em
             
D
                       
C
          
G
 
  Almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
G
                    
Em
                    
D
                           
C
 
  Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, growin'
         
G
 
like a breeze.

        
G
              
D7
           
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.
G
                 
Em
                  
D
                         
C
              
G
 
  Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye.

        
G
              
D7
           
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.

Em
          
D
          
G
 
 I hear her voice, in the mornin' hour she calls me.
    
C
       
G
              
D
 
The radio reminds me of my home far away.
    
Em
               
F
            
C
              
G
 
And drivin' down the road I get a feelin' that I should have been home
D
                
D7
 
yesterday, yesterday.

        
G
              
D7
           
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
              
D7
           
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.

        
D
                    
G
 
Take me home, (down) country roads.
        
D
                    
G
 
Take me home, (down) country roads.