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Take Me Home Country Roads

林贝卡 (2011-07-13 21:23:19) 评论 (15)

 


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

评论 (15)

林贝卡 2011-07-24 17:28:53

回复dingziqiang的评论:

写的真好，感谢你的分享。

dingziqiang 2011-07-24 15:35:26

2001年fall,我们驱车去Shenandoah National Park。后来我一个人去买camping 的 fire wood.开的挺远的。这时候天渐渐暗了下来。
突然间，我发现自己开的路不就是 Denver 唱的 country roads吗？
peaceful sunset, smoky mountains，drifting leaves,agile deer.我就像是在天堂开车。一直到警察把我叫醒。给了我一个超速 ticket。回到camping site 已经黑了。大家等的都非常着急。
2010年 West Virginia 拿下Big East tournament championship 的时候，“Take Me Home, Country Roads" 久久响彻在Madison Square Garden。 后来WV 进入 NCAA ‘Final Four'.

Thank you.

林贝卡 2011-07-15 16:41:21

回复Baystone的评论:

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 2011-07-15 11:45:16

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“。

林贝卡 2011-07-15 10:09:19

回复一霖的评论:

一霖好，我刚把你喜欢的歌曲《Shanghai Breezes》做成帖子了，连接如下：

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


一霖 2011-07-15 00:05:22

看到标题点进来了~~

学生时就爱上了这首歌... 谢谢分享老歌 :)

我还特别喜欢他的Shanghai Breezes

林贝卡 2011-07-14 21:37:03

回复香草仙子的评论:

久违了，香草仙子，问好。

谢谢分享，周末快乐。

林贝卡 2011-07-14 21:34:29

回复米德1的评论:

谢米德来听歌，顺祝夏天快乐。

香草仙子 2011-07-14 06:08:12

看到标题就进来了，这是我最喜欢的John Denver的歌之一。谢谢分享好东西。
不知为什么，美国的乡村歌曲让我对这块土地有归属感，Pop却不能。
祝夏安。

米德1 2011-07-14 03:46:54

这夏日里吹来的乐声，亲切凉爽极了。
谢谢林贝卡~~~