Selectively reading, are you? Did you miss the part in my quote where it said that the guys who wrote the song changed things up to match what a friend said about West Virginia?
The quote below says 'would seem more appropriate'. That just screams certainty to me. It does not say the song is not about West Virginia, does it? The fact of the matter is, the geographical references are accurate with West Virginia, oh, yea, and the lyrics actually say 'West Virginia', not 'Western Virginia'. I think its pretty obvious what he was singing about. But what do I know, I only live in the part of the country the song references. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Selectively quoting there, are you? Since the sentence above the one about > the road in Maryland states. > "The land features mentioned prominently in the song lyrics the Shenandoah > River <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_River> and the Blue Ridge > Mountains <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains> have only > marginal associations with the state of West Virginia, and would seem to be > more appropriate to describe western > Virginia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia>. > The river passes through only the very eastern tip of the Eastern Panhandle > of West > Virginia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Panhandle_of_West_Virginia>. > Similarly, the vast majority of the Blue Ridge also lies outside the state" > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Umm...yes I did, obviously you did not. >> >> 'Danoff and Nivert then told him about a song that they had been >> working on for about a month. Inspiration had come while driving to a >> family reunion of Nivert's relatives in nearby Maryland. To pass the >> time en route, Danoff had made up a ballad about the little winding >> roads they were taking. Later, he changed the story to fit that of an >> artist friend, who used to write to him about the splendors of the >> West Virginia countryside.' >> >> The Shenandoah River flows through West Virginia, near Harper's Ferry. >> I live near the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains...in West >> Virginia. The actual road the song refers to is in Maryland (Clopper >> Rd. in Montgomery County). >> >> So, you see, it has NOTHING to do with Western Virginia and more to do >> with West Virginia and Maryland. >> >> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Exactly >> > The first line of the song is Almost Heaven, West Virginia. >> > The second line is Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River both of which >> are >> > in western Virginia. >> > Did you even read the link you sent? Because it explains this clearly >> > >> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_River> >> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Umm...the song is not about Western Virginia... >> >> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home,_Country_Roads >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > In fairness to Sammy, tons of people mistake Western Virginia for West >> >> > Virginia. John Denver even did it in a song. >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324884 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
