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A frequent sing a long at hockey games. I guess she just isn't a fan.

My wife had the same experience.

She is an art teacher at a private high school, and the kids always beg her to play music while they work on their art assignments.

One day this song came on and one of the kids started singing along. Then my wife joined in. Then the whole class was signing it. My wife had much the same reaction as this teacher.

They must be Fallout 76 fans.

I just thought it was amusing on how out of touch she was on that tune, which is kind of an iconic American song.

Gotta love some John Denver. My dad used to sing that to us in the car growing up.

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Originally posted by LouieH:
A frequent sing a long at hockey games. I guess she just isn't a fan.

Exactly. Same with “Sweet Caroline”. These types of songs unite the crowd when things get chippy or a poor call is made.

It sure looks scripted to me.

Maybe the idea came after she watched "Logan Lucky"

I have 2 boys, both in Middle school, 6th & 7th. I'll play it for them after school. I'd be surprised if they knew the words.

Well, maybe they might know the chorus.

Man, I have no idea what either of these references are! Funny though, one of my boys is named Logan though.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
They must be Fallout 76 fans.

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Originally posted by clang:
Maybe the idea came after she watched "Logan Lucky"

Teacher would have been smart to use that time to point out that while it’s a pretty song, John Denver took some creative license and the geography is a lot more Virginia and not West Virginia.

Not uncommon at all around these parts

They play it at the end of every single home varsity football game at my kids school as the fans leave the stands, and most people do the same as these kids in o e way or another (singing, humming, whistling)

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Originally posted by ElToro:
Teacher would have been smart to use that time to point out that while it’s a pretty song, John Denver took some creative license and the geography is a lot more Virginia and not West Virginia.

The song was originally inspired by Maryland, believe it or not. One of the co-writers (Taffy Nivert, who later appeared in the Starland Vocal Band) had never been to West Virginia at the time (not sure about the other two). She said she just closed her eyes and imagined what it might be like.

At one point Massachusetts was even considered. Didn't sound so musical.

I was watching TV with my son when the Sweet Caroline commercial came on.
I said none of those people were alive when that song came out.
He said they sing it in bars all the time.
I don't get out much

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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
I have 2 boys, both in Middle school, 6th & 7th. I'll play it for them after school. I'd be surprised if they knew the words.

Well, maybe they might know the chorus.

Man, I have no idea what either of these references are! Funny though, one of my boys is named Logan though.

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Originally posted by clang:
Maybe the idea came after she watched "Logan Lucky"

It's like the hillbilly version of "Ocean's Eleven". Channing Tatum in the lead. It was a decent movie worth the couple of hours it took to watch it.

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.

I use to sing that verse to myself during deployments. I guess you can take the Boy out of the hollar, but you cant take the hollar out of the Boy....

Tom Jones, What's up Pussycat.

I hear that, along with The song in the OP all the time on the school bus.



ARman

So I called my 6th grader in and started playing the clip. By the 3rd line, he started singing the words, starting with "trees".

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 mama
Take me home, country roads...

I told him the song was old (I'm 50, BTW) and asked where did he hear it. He said he didn't know, but he definitely knew the chorus. I tried pressing him in a few ways, about how he knew the words. He said he was born knowing them. HA HA HA.

My 13 YO (7th grade) came over and was said, "Isn't that John Denver. The Country roads song...".

I'm surprised. I like John Denver, but they didn't hear that song from me! We're gonna listen to JD's Greatest Hits in the car I think.

I always loved his songs. I graduated with Annie’s brother in MN. The Martels lived in town at the time. John didn’t make it to our graduation but made it to Ben’s younger sister two years later.

In 1988, I walked out of the Hoffbrau House in Munich, at closing time, and there was a guy outside with a guitar playing this song! Everyone was singing along with him. Surreal!