What does Take Me Home, Country Roads mean?

John Denver: Take Me Home, Country Roads Meaning

Album cover for Take Me Home, Country Roads album cover

Song Released: 1971


Covered By: Lana Del Rey (2023)


Take Me Home, Country Roads Lyrics

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 I belong
West Virginia, mountain...

  1. anonymous
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    Aug 30th 2023 !⃝

    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.

  2. anonymous
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    Jun 3rd 2021 !⃝

    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"

  3. anonymous
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    Feb 19th 2019 !⃝

    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.

  4. anonymous
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    Sep 30th 2015 !⃝

    I think it's where he wants to be laid to rest.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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