Harmonica is Vocal Patches - - - [Intro - Capo 2 - BPM 88] G G/D x4 - arpeggio - play G string with thumb, B and E with first and second fingers then play D string thumb with thumb - repeat pattern (sort of) for all other chords OR JUST DOWNPICK THE BASS NOTE WITH FIRST FINGER JUST USING A PLECTRUM THEN STRUM THE REST OF THE CHORD WHILST PLAYING THE SNARE - WITH EACH CHORD PLAY ROOT THEN 5TH AFTER - SO WITH C YOU ARE PLAYING C/G EVERY SECOND BASS NOTE - SOUNDS GOOD
[Verse 1 - Finger pick with bass drum on all quarter notes - Root to 5th where possible] (Finger picking pattern is pama - play just 2 treble strings in up up down pattern) [G] Almost Heaven [Em] , West Virginia [D] Blue Ridge Mountains, [C] Shenandoah [G] River. [G] Life is old there, [Em] older than the trees, [D] younger than the mountains, [C] blowin' like a [G] breeze.
[Chorus - Strum with bass drum and full snare - 2/4 - Bass note Root to 5th where possible] Country [G] Roads, take me [D7] home, to the [Em] place I be [C] long West Vir [G] ginia, mountain [D] mama, take me [C] home, country [G] roads.
[Verse 2 - Slap snare so gentler feel] [G] All my memories [Em] gather 'round her [D] , miner's lady, [C] stranger to blue [G] water. [G] Dark and dusty, [Em] painted on the sky, [D] misty taste of moonshine, [C] teardrop in my [G] eye.
[Chorus] Country [G] Roads, take me [D7] home, to the [Em] place I be [C] long West Vir [G] ginia, mountain [D] mama, take me [C] home, country [G] roads.
[Bridge] [Em] I hear her [D/F#] voice, in the [G] mornin' hour she calls me. The [C] radio re [G] minds me of my [D] home far away. And [Em] drivin' down the [F] road I get a [C] feelin' that I [G] should have been home [D] yesterday, yester [D7] day.
[Chorus] Country [G] Roads, take me [D7] home, to the [Em] place I be [C] long West Vir [G] ginia, mountain [D] mama, take me [C] home, country [G] roads.
[Chorus] Country [G] Roads, take me [D7] home, to the [Em] place I be [C] long West Vir [G] ginia, mountain [D] mama, take me [C] home, country [G] roads.
[Outro] Take me [D] home, (down) country [G] roads. Take me [D] home, (down) country [G] roads.
[Verse - START LOOPER] [Em] We don't need no education [Em] We don't need no thought control [Em] No dark sarcasm in the classroom [Em] Teacher, leave them kids alone... [A] (big space) [A] Hey! Teacher, leave them kids al [Em] one...
[Riff] x x x x - x [Em] x[D/E] x - [Em] x x [D] - [D]([A][A][A]) [G] -
[Сhorus] [G] All in all it's just a [D] - nother brick in the [Em] wall [G] All in all you're just a [D] - nother brick in the [Em] wall
[Verse - PLAY LOOPER - THEN SET UP FOR THE SOLO] [Em] We don't need no education [Em] We don't need no thought control [Em] No dark sarcasm in the classroom [Em] Teachers, leave them kids alone... [A] (big space) [A] Hey! Teacher, leave those kids al [Em] one...
[Riff] x x x x - x [Em] x[D/E] x - [Em] x x [D] - [D]([A][A][A]) [G] -
[Сhorus] [G] All in all you're just a [D] - nother brick in the [Em] wall [G] All in all you're just a [D] - nother brick in the [Em] wall
