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 🙏
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’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.
Mom and Dad of all creation are incarnate in person and have been your life support for all moments! Have sung this song this lifetime to bring us home through music. Call home in these exciting and urgent moments! 🎉❤️❤️🎉 Luna
Mom and Dad of all creation are incarnate in person and have been your life support for all moments! Have sung this song this lifetime to bring us home through music. Call home in these exciting and urgent moments! 🎉❤️❤️🎉 Luna
Some things in life are special and they always are. There is no exhaustion date for special things you can think abt them over and over. This is the song I sang first time ever in choir. We all loved singing it. Now that those days are over. Whenever I listen to it again I reminisce of all those memories of my school and my friends. This makes me nostalgic and tearful everytime i listen to it.
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?
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.
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
This was the very first song I learned at the age of 13 on guitar, and still sing John's song 's Legend... I am 60 now and he was a good actor too in Oh God ...
😊Mom and Dad of all creation are incarnate in person and have been your life support for all moments! Have sung this song this lifetime to bring us home through music. Call home in these exciting and urgent moments! 🎉❤️❤️🎉 Luna
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.
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.
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!
Born to a Dominican mom and a Puerto Rican dad in NYC this song gives me goosebumps I don’t do politics don’t care dem or rep I just love being from 🇺🇸🥹 thank my parents everyday for giving me the opportunity to be American
Love this song, WV boy. My wife and I spent our 20th anniversary in Chicago. In a little bar behind the Sheraton, and the karaoke guy played this , and everyone sang, was awesome !
Spent a week at Camp Goshen? West VA when I was a kid Gorgeous. Scalded my leg from hip to angle. Still one of the pretty places I've ever been. Yeah I love Sassafras tea. Poor man's coffee given by GOD grows wild for you and me. The pain was worth it. :)
I remember the first day listening to this song, tears came to my face ... The sound went directly to my heart and till now it's my best song I listen for when I drive❣️
Wow that's great, you have great taste in music! This song transcends all language and cultural barriers. It was also very popular in China, a really good song that is uplifting and that everyone can appreciate!
He’d never been to WVa before this song. This song is in my DNA. We’re North Carolina people. This was my mom’s favorite song. It still gets to me. She passed in 89. I’ll be 53 this year. Take me home
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 👍
切利背小熊 Gotta happen though. I mean, you can’t have this as the best, most liked, most viewed song in RU-vid. No, in the world. I mean people are jealous it’s so good
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 has become anthem here in Australia for our AFL hero Charlie Cameron every time he kicks a goal for the Brisbane Lions. There were 36,000 fans singing it in unison on Saturday night even after the music had stopped and the game had restarted. Truly something to experience ❤
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.
I live in southern Alberta in Canada. Love this song. Still one of the few songs I know most of the lyrics. If I was doing karaoke, this would be my song choice.
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 momma Take me home, country roads 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 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 The radio reminds me of my home far away Drivin' down the road I get a feelin' That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country roads Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country roads Take me home, (down) country roads Take me home, (down) country roads
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.
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.
I'm not from West Virginia, but it's still home, the happiness in your heart tells you where your true home is. My ancestors came there when they came to this beautiful country. ❤️
I listen to this song every night before going to bed. There's something so charming and special about it and the way John Denver sings it. Very special.💖
I have been listening to oldies songs since I was 18 years old until now.. oldies is the best songs ever I can beat that.. How is the weather over there???
😊Mom and Dad of all creation are incarnate in person and have been your life support for all moments! Have sung this song this lifetime to bring us home through music. Call home in these exciting and urgent moments! 🎉❤️❤️🎉 Luna
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!
