Take Me Home Country Roads

TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS Time: 2/2 Tenor: G Bass: C Class: G

1 * 6m *

.... Almost heaven, .... West Vir-ginia

5 * 4 1 *

.... Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River___

* * 6m *

.... Life is old there, older than the trees

5 * 4 1

Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze

1 * 57 *

Country roads___, take me home___

6m * 4 *

To the place___, I be-long___

1 * 57 *

West Vir-gin-ia___, mountain momma___

4 * 1 * *

Take me home___, Country Roads___

1 * 6m *

.... All my mem'ries, gather 'round her

5 * 4 1

.... Miner's lady, stranger to blue water

* * 6m *

.... Dark and dusty, painted on the sky

5 * 4 1

Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

6m 5 1 *

.. I hear her voice, in the mornin' hours she calls to me

4 1 57 *

The radio re-minds me of my home far a-way

6m 7b 4

And drivin' down the road I get a feeling'

1 5 * 57 *

That I should have been home yesterday___, yester-day___

ENDING: CHORUS, REPEAT LAST LINE

NOTES:

- Key of G: 7th note is F#, so 7b is F

SYMBOLS:

- Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord

- Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure

- Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):

- The numbers are the notes of the diatonic scale (do-re-me-fa-so-la-ti-do)

- Play a song in any key from the same chart

Common Keys 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Key of C: C D E F G A B

Key of D D E F# G A B C#

Key of G G A B C D E F#

Key of A A B C# D E F# G#

- Submitted by: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)