Country Roads

by John Denver

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Lyrics

Strophe 1

Almost heaven,

West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains

Shenandoah River

Life is old there, older than the trees

younger than the mountain, growing like a breeze

Refrain:

Country Roads, take me home

to the place I do belong

West Virginia mountain Momma

Take me home country roads

Strophe 2

All my mem'ries gather round her

minder's lady stranger to blue water

Dark and dusty painted on the sky

misty taste of moonshine,

tear drop in my eyes

Refrain:

I hear the voice in the mornin' hours she calls me

the radio reminds me of my home far away

and driving down the road I get a feelin'

that I should have been home yesterday

yesterday

Refrain