Country roads, take me home To the place where I belong West Virginia, mountain mama Take me home, country roads Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Life is older there, older than the trees Younger than the mountain Blowing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home To the place where I belong West Virginia, mountain mama Take me home, country roads
You came when I was happy in your sunshine I grew to love you more each passing day Before too long I built my world around you And I prayed you'd love enough of me to stay If you love me let me know If you don't then let me go
I can't take another minute Of a day without you in it If you love me let it be If you don't then set me free Take the chains away That keep me loving you The arms that open wide to hold me closer
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean The unborn grass lies waiting for its coat to turn to green The snowbird sings a song he always sings And speaks to me of flowers that will bloom again in spring
When I was young my heart was young then too Anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do But now I feel such emptiness within For the thing that I want most in life Is the thing I can't win