Take Me Home Country Roads
John Denver
Midi 1 (A180)  Midi 2 (G88-Harp)  Midi 3 (D83) Harp
   Midi 4 (A140)   Midi 5 (A150)
Bright Tempo 4/4 time - Use "A" harp at  85 BPM
Play in "C" Per Charlie McCoy ("F" Cross Harp)
Tabbed by Mark Purintun from "G" sheet music
For diatonic harmonica
 
     
 
 
 
      6   6     -6 6      -6   6    -6  7
1.   Al-most | heaven, | West Vir | ginia |
2.   All my | mem-'ries | gather ]'round her |
 
    -8    -8       8  -8      -6 -6-6 6   -6 7 7   7
1. Blue Ridge | Mountains, | Shenandoah | Riv er |    |
2. Miners | lady, | stranger to blue | waters |
 
     6   6    -6   6      -6  7   7   8       8     -8  -8  -8   -8     8   -8
1. Life is | old there, | older than the  | trees, younger than the | mountains |
2. Dark and | dusty, | painted on the | sky, |  misty taste of | moonshine
 
    -6  7    7  -8      7    
1. Growin' like a  | breeze (continue below "country  roads, take...)
2. Tear drop in my | eye  (continue below "country  roads, take...)
 
 
   7 -8     8     8 -8  7    -8     8  -8     7     8  9 -10
Country | roads, take  me | home | to the | place | I belong
   -10 -10   9   8      8 -8  7    -8  8     8 -8  7   7       7  -8   7
| West Vir| gin ia, | moun  tain | momma | take   me home, | country roads.
 (to Verse 2 above)  (after 2nd verse, continue below..)
 
7   7   7      -7    7  -8     8  8    8    8      8 -8  7   7
I hear her | voice, in the | morning hours she | calls  me, the |
-9-9-9-9     -9   8 -8  7    -8   8  8    -8
Radio re-| minds me of my | home far a-| way.
 -8     8  8    8   8     -8  -8 -8 -8     7 7
And | drivin' down the | road I get a  | feelin'
  7  7      7     7    7    7     -8  8 -8    -8  8     -9
That I | should have been home | yesterday, | yester | day |
   7 -8     8        8 -8 7  -8     8  -8   7     8  9    -10
Country | roads, | take  me home | to the place | I be | long |
 
 -10 -10    9 8       8 -8   7    -8  8    8 -8  7     7      7  -8     7
West Vir | ginia, | Moun   tain | Momma , take  me | home,| country | roads,
   7 -8     8        8 -8 7  -8     8  -8   7     8  9    -10
Country | roads, | take  me home | to the place | I be | long
 -10 -10    9  8      8 -8   7     -8 8    8 -8 7      7      7  -8     7
West Vir | ginia, | Moun   tain | Momma , take  me | home,| country | roads,
 
   8 -8 7   7        8  -8     7       
| take me home,  | country | roads
| take me home,  | country | roads
| take me home,  | country | roads
 

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