• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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

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        1 year ago

        LOVE this song, got it in a couple of lists. Never understood that lyric. Mr. Denver was ahead of us all.

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          1 year ago

          He was also singing about Western Virginia, and not West Virginia because the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge mountains are both in Virginia.

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            1 year ago

            I mean… as someone who (many moons ago) won a golden horseshoe for my knowledge of WV: both of those geographic features are also partially located in West Virginia.

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      1 year ago

      I always wanted to hear the original version where he sings about how they strip mined all of that away for the coal and it now looks like something out of Mad Max.