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Take Me Home, Country Roads

Words and Music by Bill Danoff, Taff Nivert, John Denver - 1971

Number 2 on the "Billboards US Hot 100 Singles" in 1971.

Part 1:
G	Em	-	D
-	C	G	-
-	-	Em	-
D	-	C	G
Part 2:
G	-	D	-
Em	-	C	-
G	-	D	-
C	-	G	-  (to part 3 after repeat)
-     (repeat parts 1 & 2)	|
Part 3:
Em	D	G	-
C	G	D	-
Am	F	C	G
D	-	D7	-
G	-	D	-
Em	-	C
G	-	D	-
C	-	G
D	-	G	-
D	-	G	-    (end)

16-beat intro. Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Part 1:

Almost heaven, West Virginia,
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
Life is old there, older than the trees,
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze.

 

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.

Part 2:

Country road, take me home,
To the place I belong:
West Virginia, mountain mama,
Take me home, country roads.

 

Part 3:

I hear her voice, in the morning hour she calls me,
The radio reminds me of my home far away,
And driving down the road I get a feeling that

I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.

Country road, take me home,
To the place I belong:
West Virginia, mountain mama,
Take me home, country roads.

Take me home, country roads.

Take me home, country roads.

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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Watch the Peninsula Banjo Band perform "Country Roads" led by Bill Lowery (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com