Take Me Home, Country Roads - Lyrics - John Denver

Take Me Home, Country Roads is a folk rock song recorded by John Denver and written by Bill Danhoff, Taffy Nivert, and  John Denver, and derived from a poem written by their friend John Albert Fitzgerald in 1971......It is included in John Denver's album Poems, Prayers, and Promises and as a single reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song is the state anthem of  West Virginia ......."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  "


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
Growin' like a breeze.

Country roads, take me home
To the place where I belong:
West Virginia, mountain momma,
Take me home, country roads.

All my memories gathered '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 mornin' hour she calls me,
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 where I belong:
West Virginia, mountain momma,
Take me home, country roads.

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