Take Me Home Country Roads

Song: Take Me Home Country Roads Artist: John Denver Almost heaven west virginia Blue ridge mountains shenandoah river Life is old there older than the trees Younger than the mountains Growin like a breeze All my memories gather round her Miners lady stranger to blue water Dark and dusty painted on the sky Misty taste of moon shine Tear drops in my eyes I hear her voice in the morning hours she calls me Radio reminds me of my home far away Driving down the road I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday Country roads take me home To the place I belong West Virginia mountain mamma Take me home country roads   John Denver was an American Country Music, folk singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was such a talented singer and song writer. His songs were full of true emotions that have touched my heart. Some of his songs inspirations were from his real life experiences. His popular songs included "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (1971), "Leaving on a Jet Plane", "Calypso" (1975), and "Rocky Mountain High" (1973) . 《Take Me Home, Country Roads》was John Denver's signature song. It was written by John Denver, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, and initially recorded by John Denver. It was said that inspiration of the song had come while driving to a family reunion of Nivert's relatives in nearby Maryland. To pass the time en route, Danoff had made up a ballad about the little winding en route, Danoff had made up a ballad about the little winding roads they were taking. Later, he changed the story to fit that of an artist friend, who used to write to him about the splendors of the West Virginia countryside. Art is from life, but it is above life. 《Leaving on a Jet Plane》reminded me of John Denver's tragic death on October 12, 1997. The EZ Lite aircraft he was piloting crashed just off the coast of California at Pacific Grove, shortly after taking off from the Monterey Peninsula Airport. Life is fragile sometimes. We just have to cherish what we have. One of my favorite English quotes popped into my mind: "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present." Although John Denver has left us, his songs will last forever. He will always be in our hearts. Rebecca Lin 2008 Spring In USA

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回複dingziqiang的評論:

寫的真好，感謝你的分享。

[dingziqiang]

2001年fall,我們驅車去Shenandoah National Park。後來我一個人去買camping 的 fire wood.開的挺遠的。這時候天漸漸暗了下來。
突然間，我發現自己開的路不就是 Denver 唱的 country roads嗎？
peaceful sunset, smoky mountains，drifting leaves,agile deer.我就像是在天堂開車。一直到警察把我叫醒。給了我一個超速 ticket。回到camping site 已經黑了。大家等的都非常著急。
2010年 West Virginia 拿下Big East tournament championship 的時候，“Take Me Home, Country Roads" 久久響徹在Madison Square Garden。 後來WV 進入 NCAA ‘Final Four'.

Thank you.

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回複Baystone的評論:

Thanks for sharing your travel experience to Shenandoah Drive. I did not know the exact loaction of Shenandoah River until I searched it on Wikipedia just now. John Denver was also an avid pilot. His love of flying was secondary only to his love for music. He liked photography,too. He once said that "photography is a way to communicate a feeling." It is sad that he died while flying his personal aircraft at the age of 53.
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Shenandoah River
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Shenandoah River is a tributary of the Potomac River, 57 miles long with two forks approximately 100 miles long each, in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The principal tributary of the Potomac, the river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the Appalachians on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in northwestern Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

[Baystone]

I loved the song and played it during my trip to Shenandoah drive in the fall 2005. Honestly, I never got all the words until today. Thank you for sharing.

For John Denver, Sadly "英年早逝“。

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回複一霖的評論:

一霖好，我剛把你喜歡的歌曲《Shanghai Breezes》做成帖子了，連接如下：

Song: Shanghai Breezes　Artist: John Denver　Source:Yiling
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=201107&postID=11875

[一霖]

看到標題點進來了~~

學生時就愛上了這首歌... 謝謝分享老歌 :)

我還特別喜歡他的Shanghai Breezes

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回複香草仙子的評論:

久違了，香草仙子，問好。

謝謝分享，周末快樂。

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回複米德1的評論:

謝米德來聽歌，順祝夏天快樂。

[香草仙子]

看到標題就進來了，這是我最喜歡的John Denver的歌之一。謝謝分享好東西。
不知為什麽，美國的鄉村歌曲讓我對這塊土地有歸屬感，Pop卻不能。
祝夏安。

[米德1]

這夏日裏吹來的樂聲，親切涼爽極了。
謝謝林貝卡~~~