Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver

Intro

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Verse 1

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                    Almost Heaven, 
                  
                    Em
                  
                    West Virginia
                  
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                    Blue Ridge Mountains, 
                  
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                    Shenandoah 
                  
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                    River 
                  
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                    Life is old there, 
                  
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                    older than the trees
                  
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                    Younger than the mountains, 
                  
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                    growin' like a 
                  
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                    breeze

Chorus 1

                    
                    Country 
                  
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                    roads, take me 
                  
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                    home
                  
                    To the 
                  
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                    place I be-
                  
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                    long
                  
                    West Vir-
                  
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                    ginia, mountain 
                  
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                    mama
                  
                    Take me 
                  
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                    home, country 
                  
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                    roads

Verse 2

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                    All my memories 
                  
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                      gather 'round her
                  
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                    Miner's lady, 
                  
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                    stranger to blue 
                  
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                    water 
                  
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                    Dark and dusty, 
                  
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                    painted on the sky
                  
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                    Misty taste of moonshine, 
                  
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                    teardrop in my 
                  
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                    eye

Chorus 2

                    
                    Country 
                  
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                    roads, take me 
                  
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                    home
                  
                    To the 
                  
                    Em
                  
                    place I be-
                  
                    C
                  
                    long
                  
                    West Vir-
                  
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                    ginia, mountain 
                  
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                    mama
                  
                    Take me 
                  
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                    home, country 
                  
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                    roads

Bridge

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                    I hear her 
                  
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                    voice, in the 
                  
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                    mornin' hour she calls me
                  
                    The 
                  
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                    radio re-
                  
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                    minds me of my 
                  
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                    home far away
                  
                    And 
                  
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                    drivin' down the 
                  
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                    road I get a 
                  
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                    feelin' that I 
                  
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                    should have been home 
                  
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                    yesterday, yester-
                  
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                    day

Chorus 3

                    
                    Country 
                  
                    G
                  
                    roads, take me 
                  
                    D
                  
                    home
                  
                    To the 
                  
                    Em
                  
                    place I be-
                  
                    C
                  
                    long
                  
                    West Vir-
                  
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                    ginia, mountain 
                  
                    D
                  
                    mama
                  
                    Take me 
                  
                    C
                  
                    home, country 
                  
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                    roads

Chorus 4

                    
                    Country 
                  
                    G
                  
                    roads, take me 
                  
                    D
                  
                    home
                  
                    To the 
                  
                    Em
                  
                    place I be-
                  
                    C
                  
                    long
                  
                    West Vir-
                  
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                    ginia, mountain 
                  
                    D
                  
                    mama
                  
                    Take me 
                  
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                    home, country 
                  
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                    roads

Outro

Take me

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home, (down) country

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roads

Take me

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home, (down) country

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roads