Country Roads Chords & Guitar Lesson
Welcome to my Country Roads chord chart by John Denver. The full title is Take Me Home, Country Roads and is a great beginner guitar song. Most of the chords are open. The only tricky part is at the bridge where and F chord pops in, but you can you the easy version below to get through it. And on the D7 just keep strumming away on the D chord.
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Country Roads Guitar Chords:
Country Roads Strumming Patterns:
Strumming:
1 2 3 + 4+
B D DU DU
Picking:
If you are more intermediate, I really like playing this song along with a Travis Picking if you know how to do that. Makes it sound absolutely beautiful. You can check out the intermediate fingerpicking version below on the right.
Country Roads Guitar Lesson:
This video is a little more beginner level with strumming.
This video is a little more intermediate with fingerpicking.
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Country Roads Chord Chart:
Verse:
G G Em Em
Almost heaven, West Virginia
D D C G
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
G G Em Em
Life is old there, older than the trees
D D C G
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Chorus:
G G D D
Country roads, take me home
Em Em C C
To the place, I belong
G G D D
West Virginia, mountain momma
C C G G
Take me home, country roads
Verse:
G G Em Em
All my mem'ries, gather 'round her
D D C G
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
G G Em Em
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
D D C G
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrops in my eyes
Chorus:
G G D D
Country roads, take me home
Em Em C C
To the place, I belong
G G D D
West Virginia, mountain momma
C C G G
Take me home, country roads
Bridge:
Em D G G
I hear her voice, in the mornin' hours she calls to me
C G D D
The radio reminds me of my home far a-way
Em F C G
And drivin' down the road I get a feeling that I should have been home
D D D7 D7(strum and hold)
yesterday, yesterday
Chorus:
G G D D
Country roads, take me home
Em Em C C
To the place, I belong
G G D D
West Virginia, mountain momma
C C G G (hold)
Take me home, country roads
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