Take Me Home, Country Roads
by John Denver

Capo 2


[Intro]
    x4

[Verse 1]
             
  Almost Heave

            
n, West Virgin

             
ia, Blue Ridge

             
 Mountains, Sh

         
enandoah River

.
             
  Life is old 

            
there, older t

              
han the trees,

             
 younger than 

              
the mountains,

 
 growin' 
         
like a breeze.

[Chorus]
             
Country Roads,

             
 take me home,

            
 to the place 

    
I belong
             
West Virginia,

             
 mountain mama

             
, take me home

          
, country road

s.

[Verse 2]
             
 All my memori

            
es  gather 'ro

             
und her, miner

             
's lady, stran

            
ger to blue wa

ter.
             
  Dark and dus

            
ty, painted on

             
 the sky, mist

              
y taste of moo

             
nshine, teardr

         
op in my eye.

[Chorus]
             
Country Roads,

             
 take me home,

            
 to the place 

    
I belong
             
West Virginia,

             
 mountain mama

             
, take me home

          
, country road

s.

[Bridge]
          
 I hear her vo

          
ice, in the mo

rnin' hour she

 calls me.
            
The radio remi

             
nds me of my h

ome far away.
            
And drivin' do

             
wn the road I 

             
get a feelin' 

       
that I should 

have been home

 
             
yesterday, yes

   
terday.

[Chorus]
             
Country Roads,

             
 take me home,

            
 to the place 

    
I belong
             
West Virginia,

             
 mountain mama

             
, take me home

          
, country road

s.

             
Country Roads,

             
 take me home,

            
 to the place 

    
I belong
             
West Virginia,

             
 mountain mama

             
, take me home

          
, country road

s.

[Outro]
             
Take me home, 

              
(down) country

 
 roads.
             
Take me home, 

              
(down) country

 
 roads.