John Denver: "Country Roads"
To play this strumming pattern in the original key of A, use a capo on the 7th fret.
[Intro]
e|---2---2---2---2---2---2-------------|
B|---3---3---3---3---3---3-------------|
G|-------------------------------------|
D|-0-------0-------0-------0---------0-|
A|-----0-------0-------0-------0-2-4---|
E|-------------------------------------|
Country Roads
[Verse 1]
D Bm
Almost heaven, West Virginia
A G D
Blue Ridge Mountain, Shenandoah River
Bm
Life is old there, older than the trees
A
Younger than the mountains
G D
Growing like a breeze
[Chorus]
D A
Country roads take me home
Bm G
To the place I belong
D A
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
G D
Take me home country roads
[Verse 2]
D Bm
All my memories gather 'round her
A G D
Miners Lady, stranger to blue water
Bm
Dark and dusky painted on the sky
A
Misty taste of moonshine
G D
Teardrop in my eye
[Chorus]
D A
Country roads take me home
Bm G
To the place I belong
D A
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
G D
Take me home country roads
[Bridge]
Bm A D D7
I hear the voice in the morning hour - she calls me
G D A
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Bm C G
And driving down the road I get a feeling
D A A7
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday
[Chorus]
D A
Country roads take me home
Bm G
To the place I belong
D A
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
G D
Take me home country roads