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Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver Study

Growing up in Appalachia afforded me a wonderful opportunity to listen to this form of musical presentation and having the appreciation at the time that it was just plain great music. John Denver brought a different flavor to the music scene which was a raw singer-songrwiter with rich stories to tell to us in the 1970s. Many were corny but a few stand out like this beauty. A classic in every sense of the word we are taken along a country road driving homeward bound to Appalachia where our roots await us and make us feel at peace and full of joy.

Denver, Taffy Nivert, and Bill Danoff have written a delightful tune and in its study got my Friedlander Violin and a few other woodwind nuggets along the way. Another mountain climbing journey. What a wonderful instrument to learn.

It would so honor me if you were to sing along with this ... Lyrics are at the bottom :-))

"Take Me Home, Country Roads"

Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze.
Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.
West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads.

All my memories gather round her, miner's lady, stranger to blue water.
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye.
Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.
West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads.

I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me, the radio reminds me of my home far away.
And driving down the road I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.
Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.
West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads.
Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.
West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads

May You find your Mountain Mama in your mind for just a moment or two :-))