Like many other songs floating around online, there is more than one way to play this song. It all depends on your level of guitar playing.
In this particular lesson, Mark Easley, the gentleman below, teaches this song with a guitar capo on the second fret. If you are not already familiar with a capo, check out a post I put together a while back on How To Use a Guitar Capo.
Back to the lesson… You will need to know the following chord shapes to play this song: G Major, E Minor, D Major, C Major, F Major and D7
Enjoy!
As Performed by John Denver:
Video Lesson from YouTube:
A big thanks to Mark Easley for making this video lesson available. You can learn more about Mark and see more of his videos by checking out his YouTube Channel Here.
Additional Resources
More Information About This Song From Wikipedia
Take Me Home Country Roads Chords & Lyrics
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C. Ice says
November 11, 2010 at 4:27 amOK I’m a real knot head…On the strumming pattern all I see is you hand going up and down, cant tell if your hitting the strings on the down or up stroke, Other then that liked the video. I see on some sites that the strumming pattern is B-D-D-U-D-U is this correct?
Thanks
Christopher Ice