[Intro riff - just bass drum] [E][E][E][A] - like doobie brothers a bit - (A - 2h4 hammer on during E chord)
[Verse 1 - Drums in] There's a [E] reason, for the sunshine in the sky And there's a reason why I'm feeling so high Must be the [B] season, when that love light shines, all a[E] round us. [E][E][E][A] So let that [E] feeling, grab you deep inside And send you reeling, where your love can't hide And then go [B] stealing, through the moonlit nights, with your [E] lover. [E7]
[Chorus] Just let your [A] love flow, like a mountain stream And let your [E] love grow, with the smallest of dreams And let your [B] love show, and you'll know what I mean, it's the [E] season. [E7]
Let your [A] love fly like a bird on the wing, and let your [E] love bind you to all living things And let your [B] love shine, and you'll know what I mean, that's the [E] reason. [Esus4] (just bass drum and E to Esus4 x 2)
[Verse 2] There's a [E] reason, for the warm sweet nights And there's a reason, for the candle lights Must be the [B] season, when those love lights shine, all [E] around us. [E][E][E][A] So let that [E] wonder, take you into space And lay you under, its loving embrace Just feel the [B] thunder, as it warms your face, you can't [E] hold back.[E7]
[Chorus] Just let your [A] love flow, like a mountain stream And let your [E] love grow, with the smallest of dreams And let your [B] love show, and you'll know what I mean, it's the [E] season. [E7]
Let your [A] love fly like a bird on the wing, and let your [E] love bind you to all living things And let your [B] love shine, and you'll know what I mean, that's the [E] reason. [Esus4] (just bass drum and E to Esus4 x 2)
Just let your [A] love flow, like a mountain stream And let your [E] love grow, with the smallest of dreams And let your [B] love show, and you'll know what I mean, it's the [E] season. [E7]
Let your [A] love fly like a bird on the wing, and let your [E] love bind you to all living things And let your [B] love shine, and you'll know what I mean, that's the [E] reason. [Esus4] (fade out)
[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.
