Townsville Country Music Association Inc.

[Intro]
Am    C  D  Am    C  D


[Verse 1]
Am   C       D     Am       C      D       Am
   I hurt myself today   to see if I still feel
  C    D        Am        C      D          Am
I focus on the pain   the only thing that's real
    C      D       Am         C      D       Am
The needle tears a hole   the old familiar sting
       C      D      Am           C      D      G
Try to kill it all away   but I remember everything


[Chorus 1]
Am              F     C               G
What have I become?     My sweetest friend
Am          F             C        G
Everyone I know  goes away in the end
    Am                 F    G               G
And you could have it all   My empire of dirt
Am              F      G                Am
I will let you down    I will make you hurt


[Transition]
(Am)   C  D  Am    C  D


[Verse 2]
Am   C         D        Am        C      D       Am
   I wear this crown of thorns   upon my liar's chair
C       D        Am       C     D    Am
Full of broken thoughts   I cannot repair
  C          D        Am         C       D       Am
Beneath the stains of time   the feelings disappear
C         D      Am    C     D           G
You are someone else   I am still right here


[Chorus 2]
Am              F     C               G
What have I become?     My sweetest friend
Am          F             C        G
Everyone I know  goes away in the end
    Am                 F    G            G
And you could have it all   My empire of dirt
Am              F     G               G
I will let you down   I will make you hurt


[Outro]
   Am               F     G              G
If I could start again  a million miles away
Am              F    G
I would keep myself  I would find a way
                 (single strum)

Source: Ultimate Guitar

[Intro]
Am
(4 bars)

[Chorus]
  Am      C       G       Am
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
     G                                  Am
I'm begging of you, please don't take my man
  Am      C       G      Am
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
   G                   Em             Am
Please don't take him just because you can

[Verse]
       Am        C
Your beauty is beyond compare
       G                Am
With flaming locks of auburn hair
       G             Em              Am
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
       Am             C
Your smile is like a breath of spring
       G                  Am
Your voice is soft like summer rain
       G         Em             Am
And I cannot compete with you, Jolene

[Verse]
    Am             C
He talks about you in his sleep
     G                Am
There's nothing I can do to keep
       G             Em               Am
From crying when he calls your name, Jolene
    Am            C
And I can easily understand
    G                 Am
How you could easily take my man
         G                  Em           Am
But you don't know what he means to me, Jolene

[Chorus]
  Am      C       G       Am
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
      G                                 Am
I'm begging of you, please don't take my man
  Am      C       G       Am
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
  G                    Em             Am
Please don't take him just because you can

[Verse]
Am                    C
You could have your choice of men
    G              Am
But I could never love again
   G           Em           Am
He's the only one for me, Jolene
   Am               C
I had to have this talk with you
    G           Am
My happiness depends on you
        G          Em            Am
And whatever you decide to do, Jolene

[Chorus]
  Am      C       G       Am
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
      G                                 Am
I'm begging of you, please don't take my man
  Am      C       G       Am
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
  G                    Em            Am
Please don't take him even though you can

Source: Ultimate Guitar

[Verse 1]

G             Em             D                         C         G
 Almost Heaven; West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
G                   Em                     D
 Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains,
  C              G
Blowin' like a breeze.

[Chorus]

         G              D            Em         C
Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong,
         G               D             C             G
West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.

[Verse 2]

G               Em                D                 C              G
 All my memories gather round her, miner's lady, stranger to blue water.
G                 Em                  D
 Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine,
  C            G
Teardrop in my eye.

[Chorus]

         G              D            Em         C
Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong,
         G               D             C             G
West Virginia, mountain mama, 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 reminds me of my home far away.
    Em                F            C
And driving down the road I get a feeling
       G                     D                 D7
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.

[Chorus]

N.C.     G              D            Em         C
Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong,
         G               D             C             G
West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.
         G              D            Em         C
Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong,
         G               D             C             G
West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.
         D                  G              D                  G
Take me home, down country roads; take me home, down country roads

Source: Ultimate Guitar