Performance notes for Country Roads Chords
In this lesson we are going to learn a country lesson, John Denver’s classic Country Roads. This may take some to practice especially if your not used to changing through the basic chords. Originally recorded using a finger picking pattern in this lesson we are going strum the country roads using a Down-Down-Up-Down-Up pattern.
The chords used are G Major, E Minor, D Major, C Major.
Country Roads Chords And Chord Fingerings
Country Roads Chords/Lyrics/Verse
G Em
Almost heaven, West Virginia,
D C G
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
Em
Life is old there, older than the trees,
D C G
Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze.
Country Roads Chords/Lyrics/Chorus
G D
Country roads, take me home,
Em C
To the place I belong:
G D
West Virginia, mountain momma,
C G
Take me home, country roads.
Country Roads Chords/Lyrics/Verse 2
G Em
All my mem’ries, gather ’round her,
D C G
Miner’s lady, stranger to blue water.
Em
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky,
D C G
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye.
Country Roads Chords/Lyrics/Chorus
G D
Country roads, take me home,
Em C
To the place I belong:
G D
West Virginia, mountain momma,
C G
Take me home, country roads.
Country Roads Chords/Lyrics/Bridge
Em D G
I hear her voice, in the mornin’ hours she calls me,
C G D
The radio reminds me of my home far away.
Em F
And drivin’ down the road,
C G D
I get a feelin’ that I should have been home yesterday,
D7
yesterday.
Country Roads/Lyrics/Chorus
G D
Country roads, take me home,
Em C
To the place I belong:
G D
West Virginia, mountain momma,
C G
Take me home, country roads.
