[Intro BPM - 158] Intro bass - play muted picking on guitar D -5-5-5-5-5-5------------------------------------ A ------5-----5--1-1-1--1-1-1--3-3-3--3-3-3-------- E --------------------1------1------3------3 Play the above as part of the Chords on guitar as well
[Verse 1 - Guitar and Bass Drum - snare is just hard downward strum] Can't keep my hands to myself [Gm] Th [Bb] ink I'll dust em off, put em back up on the s [Cm] helf In case my little baby girl is in n [Gm] ee Am I (stop + Snare) coming out of left field?
[Chorus 1 - slap string snare - chords more barre] [Gm] Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now [Bb] I been feeling it since 1966 now [Cm] Might be over now, but I feel it stil [Gm] l [Gm] Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now [Bb] Let me kick it like it's 1986 now [Cm] Might be over now, but I feel it stil [Gm] l
[Verse 2 - slap string snare - chords more barre] (stop) Got another mouth to fee [Gm] d Le [Bb] ave her with a baby sitter, mama call the grave digge [Cm] r Gone with the fallen leave [Gm] s Am I (stop + Snare) coming out of left field?
[Chorus 1 - Full snare - chords more barre but open up] [Gm] Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now [Bb] I been feeling it since 1966 now [Cm] Mighta had your fill, but you feel it stil [Gm] l (Am7 Riff) [Gm] Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now [Bb] Let me kick it like it's 1986 now [Cm] Might be over now, but I feel it [Gm] still
[Verse 3] We could fight a war for peac [Eb] e --------------[Cm]---------------- [Gm] Give in to that easy living Goodbye to my hopes and dream [Eb] s [Cm] Stop flipping for my enemie [Gm] s We could wave until the walls come down [Eb] (I'm a re [Cm] bel just for kicks now) [Gm] It's time to give a little tip Kids in the middle, [Eb] move over till it fall [Cm] s Don't bother m [Gm] e
[Bridge - No snare - Drums Bxxb BxxbB etc] [Eb] Is it coming [Cm] Is it coming [Gm] Is it coming [Gm] Is it coming [Eb] Is it coming [Cm] Is it coming ba [Gm] ck
(Stop)
[Chorus 3 - Slap snare - Chords more barre] [Gm] Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks, yeah [Bb] Your love is an abyss for my heart to eclipse now [Cm] Might be over now, but I feel it still (Stop + pick all notes with hard thumb action - bass drum on all 4 notes)
[Chorus 1 - Full Drums - chords more open] [Gm] Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now [Bb] I been feeling it since 1966 now [Cm] Might be over now, but I feel it stil [Gm] l [Gm] Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now [Bb] Let me kick it like it's 1986 now [Cm] Might be over now, but I feel it stil [Gm] l [Gm] Mighta had your fill [Cm] but you feel it stil [Gm] l (end)
[End]
[Notes] [Gm Riff - Bass on all 1/4 notes] Play Am7 at 5th fret whole chord and finger the notes as necessary e|----------3--------3--------------- B|------6--------6-------6---3------- G|-------------------------------5--3 D|----------------------------------- A|----------------------------------- E|-----------------------------------
[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.
