Lyrics Take Me Home, 1953 Roads (Live) - John Denver

I'd like to, uh, introduce Bill Danoff
You met him earlier, Bill, come on up
I've known that, I've known bill and taffy for about three and a half years now
And uh, I knew that they were singing together and stuff like that
But I didn't know they were into songwriting until last summer

Uh, when I heard him do a song called "I guess he'd rather be in Colorado" that they had written
And uh, I thought it was one of the prettiest songs that ever heard so
Uh, that that was something and then last winter uh
We had the chance to work together
For the first time, at a club called "The Cellar Door" in Washington DC

You guys from Washington? Is that right? Big deal
No, no, friendly, friendly
We were having a real good time at the, at The Cellar Door
And one night we decided to go back to Bill and Taffy's place to uhm
Kind of jam around boogie for a while and then sometime in the early hours of the morning

Bill came up with a song he had written the verse two
And part of the chorus and had it for about a month and a half
And hadn't been able to finish it and uh, he's sang it for us a couple times
Or what he had for a couple of times

And pretty soon I was kind of throwing some lines at him
And then Taffy started doing it and Bill and pretty soon we were all working on the song
And about seven o'clock in the morning we finished it, and we thought it was a real good song
We started doing it together at the club those nights and the audiences seemed to like it
And so I decided that we should put it on the album, and I was working on at the time
The Poem, Prayer and Promises album

So we went up to New York City and uh recorded the song
And uh, RCA freaked out over the record they, they released it as a single in March
And uh, this week, it's the number one record in the country yup
Uh, no I, it freaks me out I'll tell ya

I'm at, you know-you know, you guys know what Top 40 stations are?
It was number one in the, in-in Washington for, for three weeks
And on Top 40 stations, they always talking with reverb on
And they kind of yelling at you, you know and uh

They would do this thing where they would play a golden oldie
And then they would say "number one then-en-en-en
And number one now-ow-ow"
And then they play our record man

You see it's, it's the first time in all the years that I've been recording and everything like that
That there's been a record that I sing on
That everywhere we go in the country that they, they're playing it on the radio
And, I don't want you to think it's gone to my head

It's just it's just that every time I hear it I have to pull over and stop and uh
Yeah, yeah, the main reason, I know I speak for Bill and Taffy in this
The main reason that we're really excited they have a hit record like this is that
We've always wanted to be able to say that we'd like to do a medley of our hit

Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
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 mama
Take me home, country roads

I hear her voice in the morning hour, she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Driving down the road, I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

And what we'd like everybody to do
Snap your fingers along with Taffy here
I want to think about the prettiest place you've ever been in your life
Think about maybe living there and it's like
You haven't been home for a long long time
But you're on your way back now

And if you snap your fingers and close your eyes and think about that
I'll bet you, you can get into this song
We'd like you to sing it with us, everybody

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

Everybody sing
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

Take me home, down country roads
Take me home, down country roads
Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, Fat City
Mike Taylor and Dick Kniss