John Denver – Country Roads

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  General Comment:Although the song is very stereotyped for West Virginia, and I'm assuming the negative comments have come from those hill folk, or someone here just plain hates the song. and that's fine, but I'd rather listen to this than what you young-ins listen to today.
  
  The song is mostly about wanting to get back home, after being on a tour for a long time. Why West Virginia? Well, EVERY song can't be about Colorado I guess.

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  General Comment:It's funny because West Virginia is not that great but he opens the song saying it's just like "Heaven." I know whenever I'm away from home long enough I sometimes have those feelings as well, and exaggerate the positive aspects of my hometown. Definitely a song about longing for home, or what used to be home.

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  General Comment:I am not a country music fan, but this song is incredibly beautiful!!!!!!

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  General Comment:This is such a beautiful song. It stinks that most other people my age (grade 9) don't usually appreciate the oldies :\

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  General Comment:
  Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
  
  Can someone explain what this means? I work for a Japanese company, and one of my Japanese coworkers asked me....I'm stumped!

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    I got the impression he was singing about how the Blue Ridge Mountains look as they appear on the horizon.
    
    Like ylimemi above I grew up near those mountains and I know exactly what she means by “that peaceful, blue haze.”
    
    Hope this helps :)

    Flag musicneverdieson August 23, 2010  
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  General Comment:Yeah terrible song Natasha this coming from someone who lists the Bangles and Cypress Hill as favourites, I puked a little in my mouth when I read that.

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  General Comment:I love this song. I am one of those college kids that sings this song at the top of my lungs at midnight, it's what we do.
  I don't think he means someone has died when it says 'I get the feeling that I should have been home yesterday.' I think it's more like he feels he has stayed away for too long.

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  General Comment:This song is awful. I would like to never ever hear it again for the rest of my life. Seriously.

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    ahh i didn't mean it, i didn't look before i rated, sorry kmk natasha :(

    Flag alterEgoon November 30, 2010  

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    Then why the heck did you look it up?

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    oops sorry just to clarify that was towards kmk_natasha not alterEgo.

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  General Comment:Its true neither john denver or the songs co writers had been to west virginia, and it certainly shows. the shenandoah river and the blue rige mountains are in western Virginia not west virginia. The blue ridge is the eastern most ridge of the appalachian chain. But he does mention a "miners lady" I would asume to be coal miner which would be charateristic of west virgina's coal fields in the allegheny mountains far to the west of the blue ridge and the shenandoah valley.

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    Actually about 10 square miles of the Blue Ridge mountains by the Shenandoah are in West Virginia.Denver,Taffy Nivert,and Bill Danoff the songs writers had never been in West Virginia until 1980 where they appeared at the dedication of Mountaineer Field.

    Flag DavedSon March 12, 2011  
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  General Comment:also where it says "i get a feeling that i should have been home yesterday" i think it means he was going home to visit a loved one who was sick and he didnt make it in time.

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