Take Me Home, Country Roads | Chords + Lyrics (capo 2)
Intro
| G | G |
Verse 1
| G | Em |
Almost heaven, West Virginia.
| D | C G |2/4 G |
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
| G | Em |
Life is old there, older than the trees.
| D | C G |
Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze.
Chorus 1
| G | D |
Country roads, take me home.
| Em | C |
To the place, I belong.
| G | D |
West Virginia, mountain mama.
| C | G |
Take me home, country roads.
Verse 2
| G | Em |
All my memories, gather ’round her.
| D | C G |2/4 G |
Miner’s lady, stranger to blue water.
| G | Em |
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky.
| D | C G |
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye.
Chorus 2
| G | D |
Country roads, take me home.
| Em | C |
To the place, I belong.
| G | D |
West Virginia, mountain mama.
| C | G |
Take me home, country roads.
Middle 8
| Em D/F# | G |
I hear her voice in the mornin’ hour, she calls me.
| C G | D |
The radio reminds me of my home far away.
| Em F | C G | D | D7 |
Drivin’ down the road, I get a feelin’ that I should’ve been home yesterday. Yesterday.
Chorus 3
| G | D |
Country roads, take me home.
| Em | C |
To the place, I belong.
| G | D |
West Virginia, mountain mama.
| C | G |
Take me home, country roads.
Chorus 4
| G | D |
Country roads, take me home.
| Em | C |
To the place, I belong.
| G | D |
West Virginia, mountain mama.
| C | G |
Take me home, country roads.
Outro
| D | G |
Take me home, (down) country roads.
| D | G | G |
Take me home, (down) country roads.
Take Me Home, Country Roads’ chords and progressions
As long as you fit a capo on fret 2, you can play this using almost only open-position chords, which is great news if you’re looking for a beginner guitar song.
Take Me Home, Country Roads verse chords are just I – VI – V – IV – I, then repeated, like this:
| G | Em | D | C G |2/4 G |
| G | Em | D | C G |
Only the 2/4 bar is slightly odd, if you want to play more songs in this style, extra bars or dropped beats like this are very common.
The chorus chords are just as simple. You just go I – V – VI – IV, followed by I – V – IV – I, like this:
| G | D | Em | C |
| G | D | C | G |
One more section is found in Take Me Home Country Roads and that is the middle 8, which can also be called a bridge.
Here, the chords are more adventurous, even containing a modal interchange. The first half is pretty straightforward as it goes VI – V/3 – I – IV – I – V, like this:
| Em D/F# | G | C G | D |
Next, we get that modal interchange, or you could see it as a temporary variation.
We’ve either swapped key to C, going III – IV – I – V – IIx, or the F chord is a bVII, so: VI – bVII – IV – I – V, like this:
| Em F | C G | D | D7 |
Music theory is a descriptive, not an absolute art form, so sometimes two concepts can be true at the same time. Or, two musicians can hear the same thing in two different ways.
At the end of the day, all Roman Numerals have a sound, so with that in mind, which of the two concepts do you feel is the best way to describe Take Me Home Country Roads’ bridge chords?
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