| G | Em | |
| 1) Almost | heaven, | West Virginia, |
| 2) All my mem'ries, gather round her, |
| D | C | G | |
| 1) | Blue Ridge Mountains, | Shenandoah | River. |
| 2) miner's lady, stranger to blue water. |
| Em | |
| 1) Life is old there, | older than the trees, |
| 2) Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, |
| D | |
| 1) | younger than the mountains |
| 2) misty taste of moonshine |
| C | G | |
| 1) | growin' like a breeze | . |
| 2) teardrop in my eye. |
| G | D | Em | C | |
| Ref.) Country | roads, take me | home, to the | place I be | long. |
| G | D | C | G | |
| West Vir | ginia, Mountain | momma, take me | home Country | roads |
| Bridge) |
| Em | D | G | |
| I | hear her | voice in the | morning hour she calls me, |
| C | G | D | |
| the | radio rem | inds her of my | home far away |
| Em | F | C | |
| and | driving down the | road I get a | feeling |
| G | D | D7 | D | |
| that I | should have been home | yesterday, | yester | day. |