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Audio. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (audio) on YouTube. " Take Me Home, Country Roads ", also known simply as " Country Roads ", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard' s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August ...
The song was made one of West Virginia's state songs on February 3, 1961. [ 2 ] While the original poem is traditionally credited to Ellen Ruddell King, it is believed by some that the lyrics were in fact written by her husband, the Reverend David King.
John Hardy (song) " John Hardy " or "Old John Hardy" is a traditional American folk song based on the life of a railroad worker living in McDowell County, West Virginia in the Spring of 1893. The historical John Hardy is believed to have gotten into a drunken dispute during a craps game held near Keystone, and subsequently killed a man named ...
John Denver wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the music for "Rocky Mountain High", adopted by Colorado in 2007 as one of the state's two official state songs, [2] and co-wrote both lyrics and music for "Take Me Home, Country Roads", adopted by West Virginia in 2014 as one of four official state songs. [3]
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll.It was inspired by John Fox Jr.'s 1908 novel of the same title, but whereas the novel was set in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky, the song refers to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
The song describes a train wreck in Ingleside, West Virginia. The lyrics, which are essentially documentary, describe how, on "a bright Spring morning on the twenty-fourth of May," 1927, the engineer, E. G. Aldrich of Roanoke, Virginia, known as "Dad," and his fireman, Frank M. O'Neill of Pax, West Virginia, running train number three, "left ...
Down in the Willow Garden. " Down in the Willow Garden " (Roud 446), also known as " Rose Connelly ", [1][2] is a traditional Appalachian murder ballad. It is written from the perspective of a man facing the gallows for the murder of his lover, who he gave poisoned wine, stabbed, and threw in a river. [2][3] It originated in the 19th century ...
Decca. Songwriter (s) Fleecie Moore, William J. Tennyson Jr. " Salt Pork, West Virginia " is a song attributed to Fleecie Moore and William J. Tennyson Jr., performed by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, and released on the Decca label (catalog no. 18762-B). It peaked at No. 2 on Billboard ' s race record chart and remained on the chart for 15 ...