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Friday, February 18, 2011

Guitar Chords: Country Roads Take Me Home - (Poems, Prayers and Promises - 1971)

Album: POEMS, PRAYERS and PROMISES
Release: 1971
Lyric: John Denver, Taffy Nivert, and Bill Danoff
Music: Jhon Denver
Singer: Jhon Denver
Synopsis: “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is a song written by John Denver, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, and initially recorded by John Denver. It was included on his 1971 breakout album Poems, Prayers and Promises; the single went to #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. After many other hit singles, “Take Me Home, Country Roads” remains Denver’s signature song.


CHORDS: G, C, D, D7, Em, F

VERSE
 
(G)ALMOST HEAVEN WEST (Em)VIRGINIA
(D)BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS (C)SHENADOAH (G)RIVER
LIFE IS OLD THERE (Em)OLDER THAN THE TREES
(D)YOUNGER THAN THE MOUNTAINS (C)GROWING LIKE A (G)BREEZE

CHORUS:

(G)COUNTRY ROADS TAKE ME (D)HOME TO THE (Em)PLACE
I (C)BELONG WEST (G)VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN (D)MOMMA
TAKE ME (C)HOME COUNTRY (G)ROADS

STANZA 1

(G)ALL MY MEMORIES (Em)GATHER ROUND HER
(D)MINER’S LADY (C)STRANGER TO (G)BLUE WATER
DARK AND DUSTY (Em)PAINTED ON THE SKY
(D)MISTY TASTE OF MOONSHINE (C)TEAR DROP IN MY (G)EYE.

[REPEAT CHORUS]

STANZA 2

(Em)I HEAR HER (D)VOICE IN THE (G)MORNING HOURS SHE CALLS ME
(C)RADIO (G)REMINDS ME OF MY (D)HOME FAR AWAY
(Em)DRIVING DOWN THE (F)ROAD I GET THE (C)FEELING
THAT I (G)SHOULD’VE BEEN HOME
(D)YESTERDAY, (D7)YESTERDAY

[REPEAT CHORUS TWICE]

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