Take Me Home Country Roads Chords

by John Denver & Lucky Ali
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: A
Capo: no capo
Author Pencom [a] 30,871.
4 contributors total, last edit on Jun 24, 2024
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Chords

A
F#m
E
D
G
E7
Em
C
F
D7

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Take Me Home, Country Roads
John Denver 1971
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home,_Country_Roads
 
[Intro]*
 
A
 
[Verse]
 
A              F#m
Almost heaven, West Virginia,
E                     D          A
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
                   F#m
Life is old there, older than the trees,
E                           D              A
Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze.
 
[Chorus]
 
A                      E
Country roads, take me home,
       F#m       D
To the place I belong: 
     A                  E
West Virginia, mountain momma,
        D             A
Take me home, country roads.
 
[Verse]
 
A                F#m
All my mem'ries, gather 'round her,
E             D                A
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water.
                F#m
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky,
E                         D              A
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye.
 
[Chorus]
 
A                      E
Country roads, take me home,
       F#m       D
To the place I belong:
     A                  E
West Virginia, mountain momma,
        D             A
Take me home, country roads.
 
[Bridge]
 
F#m        E             A
I hear her voice, in the mornin' hours she calls me,
    D       A              E
The radio reminds me of my home far away.
    F#m              G
And drivin' down the road,
        D              A                     E
I get a feelin' that I should have been home yesterday,
      E7
yesterday.
 
[Chorus]
 
        A              E
Country roads, take me home,
       F#m       D
To the place I belong:
     A                  E
West Virginia, mountain momma,
        D             A
take me home, country roads.
 
        A              E
Country roads, take me home,
       F#m       D
To the place I belong:
     A                  E
West Virginia, mountain momma,
        D             A
take me home, country roads.
 
[Outro]
 
        E             A
Take me home, country roads.
        E                  A
Take me home, down country roads.
 
* Alternate:
 
Capo II
 
A   = G
F#m = Em
E   = D
D   = C
G   = F
E7  = D7
 
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48 comments
Mykee Way
the ending part where "take me home country road" is repeated 3 times should be E and A instead of D and A. Great job though
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Pencom
Thank you....you are 100% correct. I just made the corrections you have suggested. Thanks again, Pencom
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PeterBradley
Great tab, I love that it is done both open and with the capo translation! It was funny, as I was playing this version for the first time, I started thinking - You know, this is really the same chords as how it is in my John Denver songbook when I play it with the Capo 2, which the book doesn't mention to do, but it only sounded right if I capo'd up. Then I got to the bottom and saw the Capo 2 chord translations, matching what is in the book. That was great! Made me feel like am starting to understand some of this music theory stuff.
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