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Take Me Home Country Roads (tongue bloc)

by John Denver · posted by MuhaFranz

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS

 

Please Note my Tabs: / = one hole blocking
// = two holes blocking
/// = three holes blocking
(3//6) =blowig hole 3 and 6, blocking hole 4 and 5

 

 

I.

(3//6)(3//6) -(56)(3//6) -(56)(3//6) -(56)(4//7)

  Al - most   heav - en   West Vir -  gin - ia

 

-(4///8) -(4///8)(5//8) -(4///8) -(56) -(56) -(56)(3//6)

  Blue     ridge  moun - tains    Shen – an  - do - ah

-(56) (4//7)

  Riv - er

 

(3//6)(3//6) -(56)(3//6) -(56)(4//7)(4//7) -(4///8)(5//8)

 Life   is    old  there   old - er  than     the   trees

 

-(4///8) -(4///8) -(4///8) -(4///8)(5//8) -(4///8)

  Young  -  er      than      the   moun -  tains

 

-(56)(4//7)(4//7) -(4///8)(4//7)

 Grow - in' like      a   breeze

 

II. (Refrain)

(1//4) -(1//4)(2//5)(2//5)(1//4) -(1//4)

 Coun -  try   Roads take   me     home

 

(2//5) -(1//4)(1//4)(2//5)(3//6) -(56)

  to     the  place   I     be -  long

 

-(56) -(56)(3//6)(2//5)(2//5) (1//4) -(1//4)  (2//5)

 West  Vir – gin - ia   moun -  tain    ma  -   ma

 

(2//5) -(1//4)(1//4)(1//4) -(1//4)(1//4) 

 take     me   home  coun -  try   roads

 

I.

All my mem'ries gather ‘round her

Miner's lady stranger to blue water

dark and dusty painted on the skies

misty taste of moonshine

teardrop in my eyes

 

II. (Refrain)

 

III.

(1//4)(1//4)(1//4) -(123)(1//4) -(1//4)(2//5)(2//5)(2//5)

  I    hear  her    voice  in      the  morn - ing  hours

 

(2//5)(2//5) -(1//4)(1//4)

  she  ca  -   lls    me

 

(1//4) -(45) -(45) -(45) -(45) -(45)(2//5)

 the     ra -  di -  o     re - minds me 

 

-(1//4)(1//4) -(1//4)(2//5)(2//5) -(1//4)

   of    my     home  far    a  -   way

 

-(1//4)(2//5)(2//5)(2//5)(2//5) -(1//4) -(1//4) -(1//4)  

  and   driv - in'  down  the     road     I       get

-(1//4)(1//4)(1//4)

   a    feel - ing

 

(1//4)(1//4)(1//4)(1//4)(1//4)(1//4) -(1//4)(2//5) -(1//4)

 that   I   should have  been  home     yes – ter -  day

 

-(1//4)(2//5) -(45)

  Yes – ter -  day

 

II. (Refrain)

 

II. (Refrain)

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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