[Intro BPM 159 - Just bass drum - then repeat with full drums] [Bm][Bm][D][D/C#] - [Bm][Bm][D][D/C#] [G][G][F#][F#] - [E][E][D][D/C#] [Repeat]
[Verse - Full drums] [Bm] oha, watching the people get [D] larey, it's [E] not very pretty i [Bm] tell thee [Bm] walking through town is quite [D] scary and [E] not very sensible [Bm] either
[Bm] a friend of a friend he got [D] beaten, he [E] looked the wrong way at a po [Bm] lice man [Bm] would never have happened to [D] smeaton and [E] old leodensian
[Chorus - G to C bass run - A-23 D-0] [G] i predict a riot, .....[C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] [G] i predict a riot, .....[C]i predict a [G] riot [C*]
[Verse] [Bm] oha, i tried to get in my [D] taxi, [E] man in a tracksuit at [Bm] tacks me [Bm] he said that he saw it be [D] fore me, he [E] wants to get things a bit [Bm] gory
[Bm] girls run around with no [D] clothes on to [E] borrow a pound for a [Bm] condom [Bm] if wasn't for chip fat they'd be [D] frozen, they're [E] not very sensible
[Chorus] [G] i predict a riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] [G] i predict a riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] and if there's [C#] anybody left in [B] here who that [A] doesn't want to be out [G] there....(4 bars).............................
[Verse - No drums] [Bm] oha, watching the people get [D] larey, it's [E] not very pretty i [Bm] tell thee [Bm] walking through town is quite [D] scary and [E] not very sensible
[Chorus] [G] i predict a riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] [G] i predict a riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] and if there's [C#] anybody left in [B] here who that [A] doesn't want to be out [G] there [C] i predict a [G] riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C] i predict a [G] riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C] [G] [End]
[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.
