John Denver: Take Me Home, Country Roads Meaning
Song Released: 1971
Covered By: Lana Del Rey (2023)
Take Me Home, Country Roads Lyrics
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains,
growin' like a breeze
Country Roads, take me home
to the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain...
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The song is actually an old miners song. John merely took the song and released it as his own. In addition, since it was written pre-civil war, the song talks about the western part of Virginia, not the state.
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i think this song has something to do with him having left wet Virginia and wanting to come back. hence "I hear her voice in the mornin' hour, she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Drivin' down the road, I get a feelin'
That I should've been home yesterday, yesterday" or "Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong" -
I've always wondered if "mountain mamma" refers to a person or to the concept that the mountains are the momma of West Virginians. Being a West Virginian myself, I've always thought of it as the mountains being the momma of us all.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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