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Song: Country Roads
Artist: John Denver
Album: Poems, Prayers & Promises
Released: 1971
Link to original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo


Key: A Major
Beat: 4|4
Chords:
A Major – A  C#  E
F# minor – F#  A  C#
E Major – E  G#  B
D Major – D  F#  A
G Major – G  B  D  


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VERSE:

  Almost  heaven, 
- E E – | F# - E - |
A       | A        |

  West Virginia
- F#   E F# | -  A - |
F#m         | F#m    |

  Blue Ridge Mountains, 
- B B –    | C# - B - |
E          | E        |

Shenandoah    River
F# F# F# E  | F# – A - | 
D           | A        | 

- - -  | 
A      |

  Life is old there, 
- E E – | F# - E - | 
A       | F#m      |

older than the trees
F# A A – C# - | C# --- | 
F#            | F#m    |

Younger than the mountains, 
B – B B- B –   | C# - B - |
E              | E        |

growin' like a    breeze
F# - A A – B -  | A - -- |
D               | A      |

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CHORUS

  Country roads,
- A – B   C# | - - -- |
A            | A      |

  take me  home
- B - A    B | - - - - |
A            | E       |

  To the place 
- C# B   A | - - -- |
E          | F#m    |

  I    belong
- C# - E F# | - - - - |
F#m         | D       |

  West Vir  ginia, 
- F# F# - | D – C# - -|
D         | A         |

  mountain mama
- B A    | B – C# - |
A        | E        |

  Take me home, 
- B – A | A - -- |
E       | D      |

  country   roads
- A – B – | A - -- |
D         | A      |


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BRIDGE


  I hear her voice in the 
- A A A   | G# - A – B - | 
F#m       | E            |

mornin' hour, she calls me
C#- C# C#- C#- | B – A# - |
A              | A        |

The radio re minds me of my
D – D D– D– | D – C#- B– A| 
D           | A           |

home far  a  way
B – C# - C#  B  | - - -  -|
E               |E        |

Drivin' down the 
C# - C# - C# - C# - |
F#m                 |

road, I get a feelin' That I 
B – B - B B -| A– A A– A- |
G            | D          |

should've been home yesterday, 
A A– A– A–  | B – C# - B -| 
A           | E           |               


Yesterday …
- B – C# -| D - - -| E - --|
E         | E      | E     |

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