[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.
[Chorus] [A] One love, [E] one heart [D] Let's get to [A] gether and [E] feel all [A] right Hear the children [A] crying (One love) Hear the children [E] crying (One heart)
Sayin', "Give [D] thanks and praise to the [A] Lord and I will [E] feel all [A] right." Sayin', " [D] Let's get to [A] gether and [E] feel all [A] right." (Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa)
[Verse] [A] Let them a [F#m] ll pass all their [D] dirty re [A] marks (One love) [A] There is one [F#m] question I'd [D] really love to [A] ask (One heart) [A] Is there a [F#m] Place for the [D] hopeless [A] sinner [A] Who has hurt all man [F#m] kind just to [D] save [E] his own? [A] (Believe me)
[Chorus] [A] One love, [E] one heart [D] Let's get to [A] gether and [E] feel all [A] right As it was in the [A] beginning (One love) So shall it be in the [E] end (One heart) Alright, give [D] thanks and praise to the [A] Lord and I will [E] feel all [A] right [D] Let's get to [A] gether and [E] feel all [A] right (One more thing)
[Verse] [A] Let's get tog [F#m] ether to fight this [D] Holy Arma [A] geddon (One love) [A] So when the [F#m] Man comes there will [D] be no, no [A] doom (One song) [A] Have pity on [F#m] those whose [D] chances grow thinner [A] [A] There ain't no hiding [F#m] place from the Fat [D] her [E] of Cre [A] ation
[Chorus] Sayin', [A] One love, [E] one heart [D] Let's get to [A] gether and [E] feel all [A] right I'm pleading to [A] mankind (One love) Oh, Lord ( [E] One heart) Whoa Give [D] thanks and praise to the [A] Lord and I will [E] feel all [A] right [D] Let's get to [A] gether and [E] feel all [A] right
