Take Me Home, Country Roads Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays877

Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, F#m, E, D, G and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
Speed
  			    
   
Intro.:  A   A   A  A    
     
e|--------12----12-12/14----------------------|     
B|--12h14------------------14p12-10-----------|     
G|--------------------------------------------|   
D|--------------------------------------------|  
A|--------------------------------------------|  
E|--------------------------------------------|  
     

                          F#m	             	     
Almost heaven, West Virginia     
E                                   D	           A           
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River  
                          F#m               
Life is old there, older than the trees     
E                                                            
Younger than the mountains  
D                         A  
Growing like the breeze     
                                      E       
Country roads, take me home     
           F#m         D     
To the place, I belong     
	      A	               E    
West Virginia, mountain momma     
	      D                       A       
Take me home, country roads     
 	                     F#m 	        
All my memories, gather 'round her     
E                    D	                A  	     
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water     
                          F#m               
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky     
E                                                   
Misty taste of moonshine  
D                       A  
Teardrop in my eye  
                                      E       
Country roads, take me home     
           F#m         D     
To the place, I belong     
	      A	               E    
West Virginia, mountain momma     
	       D                     A       
Take me home, country roads   
F#m         E	             A     
I hear her voice, in the mornin' hour she calls me    
D	      A	                E              
Radio reminds me of my home far away     
        F#m	                  G	              D          	     
And driving down the road I get a feeling that I   
A                                      E                        E7  
Should have been home yesterday, yesterday   
              A                      E       
Country roads, take me home     
           F#m         D     
To the place, I belong     
	      A	               E    
West Virginia, mountain momma     
	      D                      A       
Take me home, country roads  
                                      E       
Country roads, take me home     
           F#m         D     
To the place, I belong     
	      A	               E    
West Virginia, mountain momma,     
	       D                     A       
Take me home, country roads  
               E                               A    
Take me home, down country roads            
               E                               A        E A  
Take me home, down country roads...       



    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante