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Country Road

Lyrics & Music: John Denver, Taffy Nivert & Bill Danoff (1970)

Perfromed by: John Denver

 

 

 

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(Wikipedia, 2014)

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

 

Chorus:

Country roads, take me home

To the place I belong West

Virginia, Mountain Mama

Take me home, country roads

 

All my memories, gathered 'round her

Miners' Lady, stranger to blue water

Dark and dusty, painted on the sky

Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

 

Chorus

Country roads, take me home

To the place I belong

West Virginia, Mountain Mama

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 drivin' down the road I get the feeling

That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

 

Chorus x 2 (modulates)

Country roads, take me home 

To the place I belong 

West Virginia, Mountain Mama 

Take me home, country roads 

 

Country roads, take me home 

To the place I belong 

West Virginia, Mountain Mama 

Take me home, country roads 

JOHN DENVER, 1995

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