John Denver-Country Roads - BPM - 164
[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.