Country Road (chromatic)

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−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
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Tab

COUNTRY ROAD
By: James Taylor
Key: D

-6*  -7 -6*  -8  -7 
Take to the high-way 
 -6*  -6*  -6* -5 -5 6  -5
won't you lend me your name
 -6* -7  -6* -8 -7
Your way and my way 
-6*  -7 -6*-6* 6-5 -4   -5
seem to be one and the same

-6*-7  -7   -7 -6*   -8  -7
Ma-ma don't un-der-stand it
-5   -6*  -7  -7    -7   -8   -7
She wants to know where I've been
-5   -6* -7 -7  -7   -7 -6*
I'd have to be some kind of 
-7   -6*  -7   -7
Nat-‘ral born fool
-6* -7  -7  -8   -9  -8 -7 -6*
To want to pass that way a-gain
-5 -4    -5 -5  -4   -6* -6*
But you know I could feel it
-4 -4 -5  -4   -5
On a coun-try road

 -6* -7 -6*  -8 -8 -7
Sail on home to Je-sus 
 -6*  -6*  -6*  -5   -56  -5 
won't you good girls and boys
-6* -7 -6*  -8  -7
I'm all in piec-es, 
-6* -7  -6*  6 -5 -4    -5
you can have your own choice
-5 -6* -7 -7 -7  -7 -6* -8  -7
But I can see a heav-en-ly band 
 -7 -6* -8  -7  
full of an-gels
-7    -6*   -6* -7  -7 -7  -8  -7
And they're com-ing to set me free
-5 -6*   -7   -7  -7
I don't know noth-ing 
  -7  -6* -7 -6*  -7
'bout the why or when
-7 -6* -7  -8  -9 
But I can tell you 
 -8   -8   -8   -7-6*6-5
that it's bound to  be
-4   -5 -5  -4   -6*  -6* 
Be-cause I could feel it,
-4 -4 -5  -4   -5
On a coun-try road

-5  8   8   -9   9    9
I guess my feet know where 
 -9   -8  -7  7 -7
they want me to go
 7    7  7  7 -6*  -6*  -5
Walk-ing on a coun-try road

-6*  -7  -8   -6*  -7  -8
Walk on down, walk on down, 
-6*  -7  -8   -6*  -7  -8
walk on down, walk on down, 
-6* -6*  6  -5  -5  -4   -5
walk on down a coun-try road

-7 -8  8 -9  -7  8 -8
la la la la  la la la
-7 7 -6*  7  -7 -6* 7 -6* 7  
la la la la  la la la la la
-7 7 -6* -7 7 -6* 6 -5-7
la la la la la la la la  
 -7  -8   -9
coun-try road
 -9  -7  -8 -7 -9  -8   -9
Walk-ing on a coun-try road 

-6*  -7 -6*  -8  -7 
Take to the high-way 
 -6*  -6*  -6* -5 -5 6  -5
won't you lend me your name
 -6* -7  -6* -8 -7
Your way and my way 
-6*  -7 -6*-6* 6-5 -4   -5
seem to be one and the same

-6*-7  -7   -7 -6*   -8  -7
Ma-ma don't un-der-stand it
-5   -6*  -7  -7    -7   -8   -7
She wants to know where I've been
-5   -6* -7 -7  -7   -7 -6*
I'd have to be some kind of 
-7   -6*  -7   -7
Nat-‘ral born fool
-6* -7  -7  -8   -9  -8 -7 -6*
To want to pass that way a-gain
-5 -4    -5 -5  -4   -6* -6*
But you know I could feel it
-4 -4 -5  -4   -5
On a coun-try road

-6*  -7  -8   -6*  -7  -8
Walk on down, walk on down, 
-6*  -7  -8   -6*  -7  -8
walk on down, walk on down, 
-6* -6*  6  -5  -5  -4   -5
walk on down a coun-try road

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