Someone in my class started playing this song and the whole class was just screaming the lyrics and it was one of the moments where I actually liked school
I am a Northern English man, and whenever I have listened to this over the years, it makes me wish I was from West Virginia, so I can't imagine how it makes the people from that place feel. Just beautiful.
Denver sings of the Appalachian Mountains. This version of the Apps are 480 million years old. Part of the Apps are in Northern Scotland and Norway. You're not that far from kin.
My Mom used to play this when I was a kid. I'm 50 now she died when I was 21. I miss my Momma. I would give anything to have her here to have coffee with her at the kitchen table . Its a hard world out there with no parents.
I understand where you are coming from. My mom died when I was 5 and my dad when I was 13. And I am 61 one now. So many times I wished they where here. When I finished high school, got married, my sons were born and grandkids. And just like you said just to sit at the table and have a cup of coffee with them. I have faith in Jesus that one day we will be together never to say goodbye 💔 again. People might think I am crazy but I don't care I even tell them goodnight from time to time. I have to walk by the pictures to go to bed. Oh how I still miss them!! Hang in there. God bless you 🙏
I’m born and raised in the tropical Philippines. Listening to this song makes me feel homesick for West Virginia - a place I absolutely know nothing about.
This song makes you feel homesick for a place you've never been to before. That's how what comes from one's heart, reaches others' hearts like an arrow and a bow.
Played this at my beloved Dad’s funeral. He was from the great state of West Virginia. Bluefield, WV. Miss you and Love you Dad. Oakie Herman Bishop jr. RIP. 3/15/31 - 11/1/19 A full life lived and a great father.
My older brother played baseball for the Bluefield Orioles...I went down there and watched him win the world series... The baseball field was in between a couple mountains, I love it down there, it was beautiful 👍
Anyone listening to this emotional masterpiece on , 1 December 2024 here please May you all cherish and enrich this new month with lots of love, Joy, happiness and endless blessings from our almighty God
I had this played at my mother’s funeral. It was so fitting. I held it together all the way through until this played. She was such a sweet woman. I’ll miss her everyday. Until we meet again.
My Son's father used to live in WV and we'd take SO many trips up there from our home here in Lincolnton, NC when our Son was growing up and him seeing the mountains so many times, it grew in his blood. Now that his father has passed and he now lives in Virginia, he drives the mtn. route to come home to visit mom and goes through the Shenandoah mtns. Which are absolutely beautiful and reminds him of this song. Just last week, I drove up to visit my son and he told me to take the same route and so I did and I cried most the way home because it brought back sooo many memories of those days gone passed. This song will always be a part of our lives, for the rest of our lives and it has so many meanings for us in our hearts.
My grandfather grew up in West Virginia. He was the eldest of twelve children and when his father passed he had to drop out of school at age thirteen and take his father's place working in the coal mines. No electricity, no running water, West Virginia was really a place out of time. Eventually he made it out with my grandmother and moved to Maryland, but this song still reminds me of him. Rest in peace pop-pop.
I guess its the longing for the life we dont have. At least, thats what i feel. Man, this went from why we feel a longing to be there to people 'debating' why America either sucks or is great. Why not just listen to this song and wonder why you get some sort of feeling to be there?
From SRIANKA. During the time (1964) I compeled to learn English very eagerly my night class teacher introduced this song to sing, dance & memorised. With great enthusiasm. We all the students have to memorised the full song with perfect pronunciations. Later in my life of 74 yes this song found a very useful friend & helped immensely to keep myself up in society.
Manuel makes me think about if my family stayed up there (we moved when I was four) ever few years we go back and it’s beautiful so you just think about those memories for a few years until you get to go back
My grandpa passed away last night. He was 85 and a military veteran, he served for 37 years. My mom introduced this song to him because she's also in the military. I even remember my grandpa texting me one night before they visit in our house the next morning saying "I want to hear Country Roads playing or else I'm never stepping in your door" but then I forgot to play it, and he was really just outside, I approached and asked why isn't he coming in, that's when I remembered. And yes people my grandpa is the biggest baby ever. Kidding aside, we can definitely say he became the absolute best dad and grandpa for the last 23 years of his life after fighting for our country's freedom. He filled the times when he couldn't be here with nothing but love and joy. I just wish you could've lived longer. But for 85 years of being one of God's best creation, My only wish now is that you keep flying high. I'm going to miss you! I'll see you soon grandpa! But for now let me make you proud! I love you, so much.
Imagine it is a sunny day, the sky is clear and blue, you are driving a car into a road filled with large green trees. You are alone in the road while this song is playing on repeat. Ahhh HEAVEN!
He was flying some experimental plane where the fuel could be switched by a switch on the back of the pilots seat and he couldn't reach. At least that is what I remember.
This song reminds me of the past, and I just realised my home is with my family. We moved a lot, but when I think about it, the place we lived wasn't peculiar, but the times we were together eating in one bowl, laughing, and talking.
My Dad's home state.....West Virginia!! His Dad was a Coal Miner. My Dad remembers seeing his Mom tend to the garden on the hillside, and wanted to go help her in the garden. He was born in 1933. Years later, my Dad started suffering with Pulmonary Fibrosis. He used to be a smoker, but quit decades earlier. It was the Coal Dust that he was around and had breathed in day after day living in those Coal Mines. Those shacks in those Coal Mines weren't built very well. One day the lantern got knocked over and the shack caught on fire.....but my Dad's sister and brother were trapped in the house and couldn't get out (my Dad had not been born yet). His Dad held back his Mom from going inside to try and get the kids. She could hear them yelling and screaming and she couldn't do anything about it. My Dad passed away December 26, 2014 and my Mom 2 years earlier. My Dad has been with his siblings that he never met since his passing. I love this song but it is a bittersweet reminder of my Father. I always wanted my Dad to buy an RV and we could go on Road Trips on Route 66. My Dad said that they are very expensive to buy and expensive to take care of, but that they are gas guzzlers. When we would get out of school for the summer, that's when the road trips would start....but only in a cramped car. I always got stuck in the middle between my brother and sister. My Mom was so good at reading a Road Atlas. She wasn't the driver tho....my Dad was. We went to Alabama and then one year we went to Arizona. It took 4 days to get to Arizona. We drove through all those states. I thought we would never get through Texas. Every time I fell asleep and woke up again, my Dad was still driving through Texas!! Memories....I wish I could relive them again!!
@un4givable Oh yeah. My Mom told me that she used to say to her Mom when she was young "I wish it was my birthday" or "I wish it was Christmas". Her Mom looked at her and said "You're wishing your life away!" It seems like the older we get the faster time goes. Those holidays, and birthdays and Anniversaries will be here before you know it. It's already near the middle of June.....where did the time go? I just want to live my life over again and not take things for granted. I would think "My Mom will live a long time" or "My Dad will live a long time". Take full advantage of the time you have with loved ones and friends.....and never take anything for granted. Have a blessed day. Thank you for commenting on my "story".
Hey OhioGirl1973 - - Thanks for sharing. I've got similar memories - - though mine are of my Mom and how much she LOVED the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, and the country and nature more generally... This song also reminds me of her. We also went to Texas in my folk's station wagon! The Texas panhandle was the flattest place I've ever been to... Years later Arizona too... I recall 80º w/snow on the ground! Found New Mexico to be the most beautiful (though I've never been to mid-west states + north-west US border states). I also identify how you were saying you wish you could go back and relive those childhood years... In fact I wish when I was young that someone would have sat me down and told me how precious time is... Does any child realize that...? (Sorry to hear of those kids and the fire btw... there's no words for something like that... but its not beyond God's Grace to console and heal). Anyway - thanks for sharing - - just think of how many people John Denver must have touched with this timeless song...? Millions? Billions??? All the best!
And I live in Central Texas, but I was born in Charleston, West Virginia & i am 56yrs old & I have loved this song since I was a child & I am hopefully going to W. V. next fall. So I can honestly say I really do miss W.V. RIP to all the grandparents never got to meet & all the family that I never knew, that has already passed away😥😪!!!! RIP to your grandpa! I moved away when I was 18 months old & I've been in Texas since age 7.
One day, when i was about 17 years, i had to run a 100 meters sprint at a athletics competition. I was pretty fast, but that day, just before the "On your marks", i heard this song playing on the field. My body filled up with pleasure and i broke my personal record and won the race. Thanks John Denver. Love you forever.
Thank God I was raised in the hills of west virginia. I miss those hills very much...I remember kids making fun of my accent when I moved to southern California. I was blessed to be raised in those hills..Richard
I was on a road trip with my dad, the last time we got time together on the way to Arkansas. Taking the backroads and this song playing on the radio. A couple days later he got diagnosed with cancer. Miss you dad. Nothings the same without you
Used to listen to this song when I started out on my first job away from home.and used to play it when going back to meet up with my folks. ...40 year's is yesterday timeless classic 😊
From France. I agree. This is a song I try to learn. I heard it the first time in St-Malo France, while an australian young singer sung it in the evening for the tourists.
I constantly kept listening to this song with my dad several years ago while my father was alive.N listening to it after so long as I remember my dad n the memories we hold. It's my dad's favorite song. Love you dad...Feeling nostalgic n emotional too ❤😢😢😢
I'm just leaving this comment here. So that a month, a year, or a decade down the line if someone likes or comments on this thread, I can relive this song. Timeless. 💖
Music and songs can bring forth love, kindness and peace from one's heart. And this is one of the songs that brings the goosebumps of love in me. Thank you Neil for sharing your love ❤
Autistic Rage Memes aside, Europe is nice for tourists. It has some really nice cities and countrysides. However, I wouldn’t recommend living in some countries because of political chaos (Poland is a great example). Also I’ve never been to Denmark.
Even if I'm italian and I have never been in West Virginia or in USA, this song is soo deep and meaningful that I can feel the love of the singer for his home and the sadness to be away from it. I think that these feelings are common for all of us , whan we are fare away from the place where we were born and have had an happy life .
I was born and raised in West Virginia. Military service and different jobs have had me live all over the US and the world, but this song will always live in my soul. Those of us from WV can never express how it feels to be anywhere else in the world and hear this song.
That's the beauty of music brother - it unifies us all. At the end it doesn't matter where we are from because we all can relate to the lyrics - I for one was born and raised in NY - my parents from Colombia
切利背小熊 Gotta happen though. I mean, you can’t have this as the best, most liked, most viewed song in TH-cam. No, in the world. I mean people are jealous it’s so good
Every moment in this song keeps you moving to next and then it’s over. Yet every listen throughout the years convinces there’s something new to discover.
This song makes me miss my childhood home back in West Virginia. I’ve never lived there, but I still miss it, ya know? Edit: Damn, a lot of you are missing a home you never had too, eh?
For every side of the world there's a country road. These words fit perfecly everywhere. Thanks Mr. Denver to remind this so kindly to our hearts. Greetings form Italy
That’s cool you said that because Israel Kamakawiwo’ole re did this song to be about Hawaii. I always said that I wish Andrea Bocelli would also re do it to be about Italy. Like you said, it fits everywhere.
Fun fact: in germany, this song goes hard. At some point in the evening, during a get together or party, this song will play and there isn't a single soul that doesn't know the lyrics. Why this song in particular i have no idea, but if you ever happen to find yourself at a party with a german crowd, put on this song and watch them lose their minds
Heres the Chords guitar, might be helping G Em D C G Almost Heaven; West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. G Em D Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, C G Blowin' like a breeze. [Chorus] G D Em C Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong, G D C G West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads. [Verse 2] G Em D C G All my memories gather round her, miner's lady, stranger to blue water. G Em D Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, C G Teardrop in my eye. 5 Guitar Amps for Beginners That Are Actually Great [Chorus] G D Em C Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong, G D C G West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads. [Bridge] Em D G I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me, C G D The radio reminds me of my home far away. Em F C And driving down the road I get a feeling G D D7 That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday. [Chorus] N.C. G D Em C Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong, G D C G West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads. G D Em C Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong, G D C G West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads. D G D G Take me home, down country roads; take me home, down country roads
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This song makes me homesick for a place I've never been.
This song makes me homesick for a place l.ve
Name of the phone to dad be home by up
@@kirahkj4660 what
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I'm from India and I get you
When we listen to music like this, we miss a place we have never been, with memories of a life we never really lived.
I feel that way.i miss west Virginia but I have never been there before .it's crazy.
Facts
LMAO TO RELATABLE
im here for the memes
Deja Vu I guess
Someone in my class started playing this song and the whole class was just screaming the lyrics and it was one of the moments where I actually liked school
That rarely happens when you enjoy school
I sang this at school
P.s. i just like love school
Yeah it is always a fun time making one of your lungs collapse while screaming the chorus
You seem like a cool girl then
I am a Northern English man, and whenever I have listened to this over the years, it makes me wish I was from West Virginia, so I can't imagine how it makes the people from that place feel. Just beautiful.
Denver sings of the Appalachian Mountains. This version of the Apps are 480 million years old. Part of the Apps are in Northern Scotland and Norway. You're not that far from kin.
@@Ken-sc3gx That's a wonderful way to look at it. 👍
My Grandpa just died today. He loved this song, and I'm playing this in loving memory of him. Love you Poppi.
Sorry about your loss
sorry for your loss😞
Breanna Gowen i just subed
Im here for you man
RIP him.
This song brings back memories that never happened
Kiwi 123 Ikr.
Love this comment
Bravo7Actual ❤️
Maybe those are memories from another life where you lived in west Virginia, who knows?
Yaaas😂❤❤
My Mom used to play this when I was a kid. I'm 50 now she died when I was 21. I miss my Momma. I would give anything to have her here to have coffee with her at the kitchen table . Its a hard world out there with no parents.
Bless you, and bless her soul, may this song help you getting strength from all the good times you and your mother shared. Greetings from France
I understand where you are coming from. My mom died when I was 5 and my dad when I was 13. And I am 61 one now. So many times I wished they where here. When I finished high school, got married, my sons were born and grandkids. And just like you said just to sit at the table and have a cup of coffee with them. I have faith in Jesus that one day we will be together never to say goodbye 💔 again. People might think I am crazy but I don't care I even tell them goodnight from time to time. I have to walk by the pictures to go to bed. Oh how I still miss them!! Hang in there. God bless you 🙏
Im soooooooooooo sorry for you lost you will get better
That is
That is 😢
Hello from Virginia. John Denver lives on. 10/25/2024
My music teacher who taught me this, passed away a few weeks ago due to covid, you'll always be an amazing teacher in our hearts sir.
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She wilo rest well😀😀😀😀🤗
I'm sorry for your loss
I hope they play this song in his funeral 🥺
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This song makes me proud to be American
And I’m not American
Wrong Choice of Words Homie......smh
I feel you 😂
Saaaame lol
Ok
Sammmeeeee lol
I’m born and raised in the tropical Philippines. Listening to this song makes me feel homesick for West Virginia - a place I absolutely know nothing about.
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Exactly. As if I had memories from that place.
Same. Hahaha
Exactly bro hahaha
Parehas tayo hahaha
Who watch this in now?❤❤❤😅😅😅
Hi
Me, from Japan.
It's October 27th 2024 today.
Me from india
Meee
Nostalgic
When I get to America someday, I am definitely going to West Virginia
Yasss
Yeah same, sounds really nice in West Virginia
@@danbakle8648 really why?
My friend in west Virginia rn: its hot here ngl 🌚
So I am
This song makes you feel homesick for a place you've never been to before.
That's how what comes from one's heart, reaches others' hearts like an arrow and a bow.
You're damn right
And i agree 100%
Yes
The word is: Hiraeth.
Exactly!!
Played this at my beloved Dad’s funeral. He was from the great state of West Virginia. Bluefield, WV. Miss you and Love you Dad. Oakie Herman Bishop jr. RIP. 3/15/31 - 11/1/19 A full life lived and a great father.
My older brother played baseball for the Bluefield Orioles...I went down there and watched him win the world series... The baseball field was in between a couple mountains, I love it down there, it was beautiful 👍
I’m sorry for you’re loss
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Man down.....
Sorry for your lost
Accept my condolences 🙏
Anyone listening to this emotional masterpiece on , 1 December 2024 here please
May you all cherish and enrich this new month with lots of love, Joy, happiness and endless blessings from our almighty God
A lot people are not even from USA, but they still vibe to this song. And thats okay.
Doesnt anyone rule that only amrica people can watch this xD
From malaysia 🇲🇾
Yup, like me. I'am from Bali, Indonesia
yeah im from new zealand, moving there soon still a good song
Music just shatters all the barriers.
I had this played at my mother’s funeral. It was so fitting. I held it together all the way through until this played. She was such a sweet woman. I’ll miss her everyday. Until we meet again.
Should of played all Star
So sorry
I'm sorry for your loss and u will meet her in heaven amen
So sorry to hear that 😢💔😥😢😢
I’m sorry for the loss of your mom.
Cheers to the old memories we don't even have...
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My Son's father used to live in WV and we'd take SO many trips up there from our home here in Lincolnton, NC when our Son was growing up and him seeing the mountains so many times, it grew in his blood. Now that his father has passed and he now lives in Virginia, he drives the mtn. route to come home to visit mom and goes through the Shenandoah mtns. Which are absolutely beautiful and reminds him of this song. Just last week, I drove up to visit my son and he told me to take the same route and so I did and I cried most the way home because it brought back sooo many memories of those days gone passed. This song will always be a part of our lives, for the rest of our lives and it has so many meanings for us in our hearts.
Born in Asia, but after listening this song, I felt like living somewhere in america
Same Adrian 😂❤️.
Live with me
yeah, this song is fkn magical. I live in Indonesia, listening in my house. And now i miss America like it's my home country. 😭😂
Same
lmaooo
My grandfather grew up in West Virginia. He was the eldest of twelve children and when his father passed he had to drop out of school at age thirteen and take his father's place working in the coal mines. No electricity, no running water, West Virginia was really a place out of time. Eventually he made it out with my grandmother and moved to Maryland, but this song still reminds me of him. Rest in peace pop-pop.
Rest in peace ❤️
Rest in peace.
Rest in peace
(´༎ຶ ͜ʖ ༎ຶ `)♡ Rest In peace
Shmoadelah
its weird how ive never been to america and yet im having nostalgic thoughts whenever i listen to this song
I guess its the longing for the life we dont have. At least, thats what i feel.
Man, this went from why we feel a longing to be there to people 'debating' why America either sucks or is great. Why not just listen to this song and wonder why you get some sort of feeling to be there?
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Wow yesterday
He make this video 8 years
From SRIANKA. During the time (1964) I compeled to learn English very eagerly my night class teacher introduced this song to sing, dance & memorised. With great enthusiasm. We all the students have to memorised the full song with perfect pronunciations. Later in my life of 74 yes this song found a very useful friend & helped immensely to keep myself up in society.
this song makes me nostalgic of the memories i never had
Manuel makes me think about if my family stayed up there (we moved when I was four) ever few years we go back and it’s beautiful so you just think about those memories for a few years until you get to go back
Same lmao
Yep very nostalgic
Same here
Samee
I am a trucker in West Virginia and I listen to this at every shift
Nice, this song is a soul for West virginia.
Hello from India :)
Woah cool!
Nice
@Lemon The Axolotl ayyyy, lets gooo
My grandpa passed away last night. He was 85 and a military veteran, he served for 37 years. My mom introduced this song to him because she's also in the military.
I even remember my grandpa texting me one night before they visit in our house the next morning saying "I want to hear Country Roads playing or else I'm never stepping in your door" but then I forgot to play it, and he was really just outside, I approached and asked why isn't he coming in, that's when I remembered. And yes people my grandpa is the biggest baby ever. Kidding aside, we can definitely say he became the absolute best dad and grandpa for the last 23 years of his life after fighting for our country's freedom. He filled the times when he couldn't be here with nothing but love and joy.
I just wish you could've lived longer. But for 85 years of being one of God's best creation, My only wish now is that you keep flying high. I'm going to miss you! I'll see you soon grandpa! But for now let me make you proud! I love you, so much.
I feel bad but my grandpa and grandma died when i was not borned yet
wait you almost made me cry 😢 sorry for your loss, and may he rest in heavenly peace. ✨
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@@cherryblxssom2681 same 😢😢😢
This had my crying in 12 midnight yesterday.
Anyone Nov 2024?
✌🏽Thanks Fallout 🤭
Right now vro
Me me me🥂🌼🌻🇺🇸🐸👍👑🕊️👏👏👏
Me
Me me me
West Virginia chiliing as the only state without Corona.
No Beer?
Ight Imma head to West Virginia
CORONA IS ALK BULLSHIT! OSYCH OPS!
TAKE ME HOME TO WEST VIRGINA
Literally, the reason why I searched this up
Imagine it is a sunny day, the sky is clear and blue, you are driving a car into a road filled with large green trees. You are alone in the road while this song is playing on repeat. Ahhh HEAVEN!
you know it it truly is heaven
hope it happens to me :D
STOP IT'S NEVER SUNNY WERE I'M FROM😭AND ALL OUR TREES ON ROADS ARE MOSTLEY DEAD😭😭😭😭😭
Almost Heaven West Virginia ~This is truly God's country. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else.
@@slayerknightgaming5194 Yes it really is💙💛
I am italian and i live in italy, now there is the coronavirus and we can't go out. I listen this song and i feel sad. It's going to be all right
Hello. I hope you will not get infected and the corona virus will be cured in your country. Good luck.
Hope it'll get better in there. We're also in lockdown here in Philippines due to Coronavirus.
All is well. Take care and God Bless.
Dame in Spain bro
I’m healthy!
Thank God I was raised in the hills of west virginia. . I pray to see them again before I die. Richard Darner
I Hear West Virginia is a Fantastic State!
Thanks for all the likes!!!
How much times this song has gave you a good feeling inside
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Infinity
Zach
I really feel like I am driving to virginia
This doesn't make any sense at all
Fuck you
This song makes me homesick for West Virginia even though I've never been to America. This song makes me want to move to West Virginia.
This and mothman are what make me want to move to West Virginia. I've been there and it's lit.
WEST VIRGINA, MOUNTAIN MAMMA, TAKE ME HOME!!
Same!
I would be the cynical killjoy to mention the environmental issues from the coal mining, but this song has calmed my soul lol.
U said it sista 😁
I never liked country music... but this...
This is good
Thought you’re we’re gonna say, but this does put a smile on my face
This really isn't country music it's a mix of rock and country
I never liked country music before but I hear it a lot so I like it now if that makes sence lol
its the good shit
Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
Thank you America for these musical masterpieces. Music that never gets old. Best regards from Russia. Peace and love.
My 4-year-old brother loves this song. He knows the lyrics too. There's something about this song that every generation seems to love.
Back when people arent addicted to gadgets and just playing outside with friends, good times.
Filipina :)
Words of wisdom: This is a classic and classics are timeless!
Same as my 4yr old son😊
That is because this song is masterfully crafted and executed to make the person who listens to it feel like the singer.
I miss John Denver....Rest in Heaven Sir...thank you for leaving us with a great song....
WUUUUUT?!
rest in west Virginia*
He died in a plane crash
He died years ago unless he becomes part of The Mandela Effect and actually is still alive.
He was flying some experimental plane where the fuel could be switched by a switch on the back of the pilots seat and he couldn't reach. At least that is what I remember.
This makes me miss West Virginia, even though I’ve never been there
it makes miss north carolina even know i never been their lol so ssame
Samee
Actually same, tho
i’m planning to go there for university. already missing it 😂
Same
This song reminds me of the past, and I just realised my home is with my family. We moved a lot, but when I think about it, the place we lived wasn't peculiar, but the times we were together eating in one bowl, laughing, and talking.
My Dad's home state.....West Virginia!!
His Dad was a Coal Miner.
My Dad remembers seeing his Mom tend to the garden on the hillside, and wanted to go help her in the garden.
He was born in 1933.
Years later, my Dad started suffering with Pulmonary Fibrosis.
He used to be a smoker, but quit decades earlier.
It was the Coal Dust that he was around and had breathed in day after day living in those Coal Mines.
Those shacks in those Coal Mines weren't built very well.
One day the lantern got knocked over and the shack caught on fire.....but my Dad's sister and brother were trapped in the house and couldn't get out (my Dad had not been born yet).
His Dad held back his Mom from going inside to try and get the kids.
She could hear them yelling and screaming and she couldn't do anything about it.
My Dad passed away December 26, 2014 and my Mom 2 years earlier.
My Dad has been with his siblings that he never met since his passing.
I love this song but it is a bittersweet reminder of my Father.
I always wanted my Dad to buy an RV and we could go on Road Trips on Route 66.
My Dad said that they are very expensive to buy and expensive to take care of, but that they are gas guzzlers.
When we would get out of school for the summer, that's when the road trips would start....but only in a cramped car.
I always got stuck in the middle between my brother and sister.
My Mom was so good at reading a Road Atlas.
She wasn't the driver tho....my Dad was.
We went to Alabama and then one year we
went to Arizona.
It took 4 days to get to Arizona.
We drove through all those states.
I thought we would never get through Texas.
Every time I fell asleep and woke up again, my Dad was still driving through Texas!!
Memories....I wish I could relive them again!!
@un4givable Oh yeah.
My Mom told me that she used to say to her Mom when she was young "I wish it was my birthday" or "I wish it was Christmas".
Her Mom looked at her and said "You're wishing your life away!"
It seems like the older we get the faster time goes.
Those holidays, and birthdays and Anniversaries will be here before you know it.
It's already near the middle of June.....where did the time go?
I just want to live my life over again and not take things for granted.
I would think "My Mom will live a long time" or "My Dad will live a long time".
Take full advantage of the time you have with loved ones and friends.....and never take anything for granted.
Have a blessed day.
Thank you for commenting on my "story".
@@OhioGirl-bu2kv Thank you for sharing this ❤
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Hey OhioGirl1973 - - Thanks for sharing. I've got similar memories - - though mine are of my Mom and how much she LOVED the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, and the country and nature more generally... This song also reminds me of her. We also went to Texas in my folk's station wagon! The Texas panhandle was the flattest place I've ever been to... Years later Arizona too... I recall 80º w/snow on the ground! Found New Mexico to be the most beautiful (though I've never been to mid-west states + north-west US border states). I also identify how you were saying you wish you could go back and relive those childhood years... In fact I wish when I was young that someone would have sat me down and told me how precious time is... Does any child realize that...?
(Sorry to hear of those kids and the fire btw... there's no words for something like that... but its not beyond God's Grace to console and heal). Anyway - thanks for sharing - - just think of how many people John Denver must have touched with this timeless song...? Millions? Billions??? All the best!
What a story, I'm crying 😭 sorry, I'm so emotional 😭 Rest in peace, my wish to your parents ❤️ Thank you for sharing.. 🇧🇩🇺🇸
I'm from Texas and this song makes me wanna visit my grandpa's farm in West Virginia...
Rest In Peace Grandpa Joseph
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And I live in Central Texas, but I was born in Charleston, West Virginia & i am 56yrs old & I have loved this song since I was a child & I am hopefully going to W. V. next fall. So I can honestly say I really do miss W.V. RIP to all the grandparents never got to meet & all the family that I never knew, that has already passed away😥😪!!!! RIP to your grandpa! I moved away when I was 18 months old & I've been in Texas since age 7.
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Im a refugee from Afghanistan, this song makes me think of going back someday to homeland when war is over.
Oh you will
You surely will return my Afghan Brother. Love from India.🙏
my das is from there too and we love this song haha
god bless you and may you and your loved ones be in harmony and peace! 😁🙏
Inshallah bro my only wish is to go back to my sweet Afghanistan 🇦🇫❤
I'm a Californian that grew up in West Virginia... my mom luv'd this song! Listening on Sunday's was a constant! RIP JD and mom's
Even at modern generation this song still a masterpiece.
bro your rinnegan is gone now(momoshiki destroy it or boruto)
I know Like
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👍👍
Old songs are the best
Amaterasu
Yes
I live in Sweden before listening to this
Now I'm from West Virginia
Now go listen to ABBA to get back home.
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@@chippyfish8712 u damn right
@@A.C31 I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!!!! I needed that, thanks.
😂😂 yeah me too
After watching Kingsman The Golden Circle.... I played this song over and over again. Who else has done the same? Love the Kingsman
Chris Lucas me too
Me
Chris Lucas
Same here I am playing this song over and over after watching Kingsman Golden Circle Movie. This is a really really good movie.
Chris Lucas me
I'm doing it right now.
Anyone 2024?❤
Me❤
✨🤍Me
Me
🖐️ 🤘🤘🤘
We may be from any city, state, country, or continent..
but if John Denver says our home is West Virginia, OUR HOME IS WEST VIRGINIA
Dudeee_ I lived in north
Woah, only a select few have earned the title of mountain people 😂
Dudeee_ Tass bitch
I live in West Virginia
I’m British but this makes me feel proud to be an American
this was one of my grandad's favourites, it was the exit song at his funeral. This song will forever be special to me
Hello
Rip man thats tough but you know hes still listening to this song in heaven,Its still special to him dont forget💛
It was my dad's exit song also...3 weeks ago
Damn
@@wyatteldred3548 yeah bro 100 percent
One day, when i was about 17 years, i had to run a 100 meters sprint at a athletics competition. I was pretty fast, but that day, just before the "On your marks", i heard this song playing on the field. My body filled up with pleasure and i broke my personal record and won the race. Thanks John Denver. Love you forever.
Nice story 👍🏼
how fast was it?
@@chimpanzee4271 As fast as ur dad leaves you
@@ahmedalex4937 well i dont know how fast that is he, never left me unlike ur dad adopted little shit
Salty
Thank God I was raised in the hills of west virginia. I miss those hills very much...I remember kids making fun of my accent when I moved to southern California. I was blessed to be raised in those hills..Richard
No matter where you're from, this song will make you feel home😍
Yes it makes me feel it
suomi perkele sauna makkara kalja vittu lumi maamme suomi on paras
Reado remind me of my home far away
Amen to that
Amen. No matter where
This song makes me wanna go to West Virginia and I'm not even American
Wherever you are get to west Virginia
@@tyler_3183 same, wish I could get there someday.
me too. I'm Turkish
I was in West Virginia for a week I came home yesterday
I was camping
I can say proudly that West Virginia is my home.
Even when I never been there.
I can say that too & it is my home.
Get over here I'll pay for the vacation.
I lived there in my past life
@AA_Certified_Weirdo 123 💙💛💙😊
you mean south Virginia
Listening to this in 2024. Never dies or gets old. Thanks John Denver. You have immortalized yourself in this song.
Fr mate
who is listening to this in quarantine?
merida bertella Me
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This song makes me wanna go home, when i'm already at home
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 I stress
@@hb3720 its ok
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Hahaha. Good one
@Lord of the memes98 too bad i live in east virginia lol
I've never been to Virginia, but feels like I've grown old there.
I've been to West Virginia
@@kobiimac5131 ok cool
.....that sounds like a line in a poem.....💜
Where are u from?
Are u from a country that has a b for first letter?
Im a real West Virginia Native, I grew up along the beautiful. Shenandoah River looking at those old Blue Ridge Mountains❤❤❤
most fortunate!
How are you today and how is the weather condition over there in your place ?
I want to visit west Virginia because of this song.
I live in west Virginia, it's pretty swell here, you'll like it.
I live in nj but was just down there this weekend. Pretty cool spots
I’m going to West Virginia this Memorial Day weekend during corona 2020
me to
Same
I was on a road trip with my dad, the last time we got time together on the way to Arkansas. Taking the backroads and this song playing on the radio. A couple days later he got diagnosed with cancer. Miss you dad. Nothings the same without you
I'm sorry for your loss, hope you are doing okay
Your dad is always with you
Damn thats hard
Awwww I'm sorry that happened
sorry for your loss, maybe he is on the country road to heaven :)
Good old days when the comment section is not a yet a calendar.
WhO’s WaTcHiNg In 2020?
I also hate that sort of thing
Those were the times, friend
whos watching in 2019?
I am watching on the year 6969 bc
Used to listen to this song when I started out on my first job away from home.and used to play it when going back to meet up with my folks. ...40 year's is yesterday timeless classic 😊
No matter how many years pass, this song will stay in our hearts FOREVER !!! 💖 ..from Fort Worth, Texas
i agree it
Me too
Me too
From France. I agree. This is a song I try to learn. I heard it the first time in St-Malo France, while an australian young singer sung it in the evening for the tourists.
Same here, from Macon, Georgia.
I don’t always like country music, but when I do, it’s Country Roads.
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its actually folk music. you will like folk if you like this.
Lol I dent like folk or country music but my only exeption is country roads
I hear this song from the movie Kingsman 2 when Harry step down a line mined then he sings and blew itself aftersacrificing his self
i have seen this place 8n my dream
I played this song at my grandpa's funeral. He came back to life to turn the volume up.
Hahahahahha what-
Pls dont nake that joke.....
hahaha really?
How rude why didn’t you have it max volume to begin with 😂
@Jessethegamer why? Ik its a joke
I constantly kept listening to this song with my dad several years ago while my father was alive.N listening to it after so long as I remember my dad n the memories we hold. It's my dad's favorite song. Love you dad...Feeling nostalgic n emotional too ❤😢😢😢
On March 8, 2014, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" became an official state anthem for West Virginia.
And November 14, 2018 is officially recognized as Reclamation Day in the state of West Virginia. According to the governor and what not.
That's awesome
Leigh Maiden state song* but I looked it up and happens to be true! (Didn’t think it’d be)
Thx for the knowledge women 👌
this is hot, this is hot
I'm just leaving this comment here. So that a month, a year, or a decade down the line if someone likes or comments on this thread, I can relive this song. Timeless.
💖
Relive it my friend.my family is from there.lts as magnificient as the song.
Lol
U know bts?
-Suga
A week later your getting comments
are u boy
people who dont like country music but country roads comes on
" ill allow it"
As a fellow rat I can approve this meme
I like Jerry Reed and Jerry Lee Lewis’ Great Balls Of Fire, but that was it until 10 minutes ago
Funny
My name is actually Sasha.
Facts
Music and songs can bring forth love, kindness and peace from one's heart. And this is one of the songs that brings the goosebumps of love in me. Thank you Neil for sharing your love ❤
im convinced that we are all born knowing the lyrics to this song
Same
yes 😂
Agreed
Ofc
Country roads
*It's been 2 years since i left home for my deployment overseas. Listening to this song makes me feel i never left home*
Thanks for serving our country
Home is where the heart is.
I wish you the best.
May you return safely to your loved ones.
Thanks your the real hero return home troop.
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This remind me of a friend, a savior, a hero who sacrificed himself for his friend from the landmine.
Wanna Cry last a movie
💔🙏🏼
This is the song really brings back alot of nastalgia
hi
@@jakebonner3513 hi
Love this song and country roads! God's blessings on you and your day! John
3:16
John Denver isn't dead, a country road took him home
Home to heaven
@@GabiteEditz To West Virginia
@@waynebais1783 yeah
More like a jet plane 😢
"I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again." - Leaving on a Jet Plane, John Denver T^T
I’m in England but I’m now considering moving to West Virginia.
Because it’s the place I belong.
Autistic Rage
Memes aside, Europe is nice for tourists. It has some really nice cities and countrysides. However, I wouldn’t recommend living in some countries because of political chaos (Poland is a great example). Also I’ve never been to Denmark.
West Virginia is desolate and country as f***, nice though.
@The TH-cam Police amsterdam is now fucking hectic bc of the tourists considering moving away its only politics here
thats a horrible idea
This songs touches everybody's soul. Doesn't matter where they come from. Some imaginary home and beautiful scenarios comes to our head
It touches me harder than my uncle at family gatherings.
True or false?
Truer words have not been said.
I do agree with you and it is touching... the song tone the words to it and pictures complete the soul touching part
It's like we wanna go home where everything is beautiful green safe and peaceful place. As this world ain't safe any more
I hear her voice
In the mornin hour she calls me
The radio reminds me
Of my home far away
Is the best line for me 🎉
We were actually singing this song in class today-
*We souded like drunken people. Atleast we had fun.*
Yeah bro
that’s nice
@@outlastingereng5356 sweet
Good
Lol
Had one percent left and listened to this didn’t regret it
Same but not anymore
I guess your phone liked this song so didn’t go dead 😂
Lol
Grace Prout i guess so 😂
Yeah
Even if I'm italian and I have never been in West Virginia or in USA, this song is soo deep and meaningful that I can feel the love of the singer for his home and the sadness to be away from it.
I think that these feelings are common for all of us , whan we are fare away from the place where we were born and have had an happy life .
NYY
I am from India and feeling the same thing... Even though I am not away my home
Im also from italy
I was born and raised in West Virginia. Military service and different jobs have had me live all over the US and the world, but this song will always live in my soul. Those of us from WV can never express how it feels to be anywhere else in the world and hear this song.
That's the beauty of music brother - it unifies us all. At the end it doesn't matter where we are from because we all can relate to the lyrics - I for one was born and raised in NY - my parents from Colombia
I am from Sri Lanka, small asian country . I have never gone west virginia, but i love this song very much .
I'm from Sri Lanka too ado kohomada
I'm from Nepal
The only bad thing about this song is that it ends
切利背小熊 Gotta happen though. I mean, you can’t have this as the best, most liked, most viewed song in TH-cam. No, in the world. I mean people are jealous it’s so good
This song is killing it
Press the replay button
@@3bigbignig-abandoned SMART
@@rinkitaku2665 😄
if you have never been to west virginia you need to visit there.
Its beautiful here.
Durkey it is really
I'm coming Right now
I live there
it is but not the same anymore
when i will go there i will play this song so loud that everyone will follow me to join amazing trip we are gonna have
Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is a masterpiece!
It's not mistake it's a masterpiece
Every moment in this song keeps you moving to next and then it’s over. Yet every listen throughout the years convinces there’s something new to discover.
This song makes me miss my childhood home back in West Virginia.
I’ve never lived there, but I still miss it, ya know?
Edit: Damn, a lot of you are missing a home you never had too, eh?
You didn't even edited your comment.
@@under5947 e x p o s e d
Food it only south and north Virginia like srsly
@@under5947 to preserve it
If fictional places count aswell: I'm missing the Shire, Hogwarts and a Galaxy, far far away :,)
For every side of the world there's a country road. These words fit perfecly everywhere. Thanks Mr. Denver to remind this so kindly to our hearts. Greetings form Italy
Aww
Cool
Yes👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
That is so nice of you, you’re a good person! Take care of yourself! 🇺🇸 🇮🇹
That’s cool you said that because Israel Kamakawiwo’ole re did this song to be about Hawaii. I always said that I wish Andrea Bocelli would also re do it to be about Italy. Like you said, it fits everywhere.
I am Japanese and loves this song since I was young. Now my six-months son listens to this song and sleeps well.
That’s beautiful! Have fun with your baby!! ♥️
I love this comment god bless❤️
Like Father Like Son
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I feel like this song sung in Japanese by the deep, throaty voice some Japanese men have would be a bomb ass cover I'd enjoy hearing
December 2024 ... What a Treasure of a Song ! Thanks for posting this Masterpiece of
Mr John Denver ♥️
MY FAVOURITE LINE ...
I HEAR HER VOICE IN THE MORNING HOURS SHE CALLS ME
THE RADIO REMINDS ME OF MY HOME FAR AWAY
Were the same hahaha lol
Ah, solace. More Indians here
@@kakalimukherjee3297 This song is amazing bro
I live in Bangladesh. I'm not even from West Virginia. But damn! This song gives me chills. What a feeling ♥
me too
Bhalo
same loool
Nice
gay
I just love that none of the comments are negative
I hate this song.
(Just kidding)
Fuck u
What, you think you're better than me?!
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Same... 😍😍
Country road take me home..to the place i belong Gobas-Bobirwa-Botswana-Afrika..m here 2024 going home!
Fun fact: in germany, this song goes hard. At some point in the evening, during a get together or party, this song will play and there isn't a single soul that doesn't know the lyrics. Why this song in particular i have no idea, but if you ever happen to find yourself at a party with a german crowd, put on this song and watch them lose their minds
Thanks I’ll need this for later
@@musabaydn9045 and just what the fuck is wrong with you?
@@musabaydn9045 what the hell dude?!
Yeah but its kinda trash thats this masterpiece is abused by drunk idiots
*WAS IST DIS???*
Heres the Chords guitar, might be helping
G Em D C G
Almost Heaven; West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
G Em D
Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains,
C G
Blowin' like a breeze.
[Chorus]
G D Em C
Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong,
G D C G
West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.
[Verse 2]
G Em D C G
All my memories gather round her, miner's lady, stranger to blue water.
G Em D
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine,
C G
Teardrop in my eye.
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[Chorus]
G D Em C
Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong,
G D C G
West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.
[Bridge]
Em D G
I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me,
C G D
The radio reminds me of my home far away.
Em F C
And driving down the road I get a feeling
G D D7
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.
[Chorus]
N.C. G D Em C
Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong,
G D C G
West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.
G D Em C
Country Roads, take me home, to the place, I belong,
G D C G
West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.
D G D G
Take me home, down country roads; take me home, down country roads
Thnx Dude 😌
Tnx bro🏳
Thx
*Thanks I have practiced it! :D*
Thx doe
John Denver didn't die, he's taking a walk on the country roads
Ok
A infinite walk to west virginia
Damn...
Yeah very original dude
Well he’s “flying” over West Virginia
Thank God I was raised in the hills of west virginia...i miss those hills and the people there. Richard