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Take Me Home, Country Roads

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. 


        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.

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.

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

F#m        E             A
I hear her voice, in the morning hour she calls me.
    D       A              E
The radio reminds me of my home far away.
    F#m              G            D
And drivin' down the road I get a feelin'
       A                   E                E7
That I should've been home yesterday, yesterday.

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

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

        E                  A
Take me home, down country roads.
        E                  A
Take me home, down country roads.

(Words and music by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert & John Denver, 1970)

Notes: There was an additional verse at first when the song was written, which goes like this:

In the foothills, hiding from the clouds,
Pink and purple, West Virginia farmhouse.
Naked ladies, men who looked like Christ,
And a dog named Pancho, nibbling on the rice.

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