The song is clearly about West Virginia. It's that songwriter used geographical features that for the most part, are not in West Virginia - unless they've been moved in the last 30 years. I'm a songwriter. Sometimes we take license with stuff like that for the sake of the song.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Todd <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I grew up near VA Tech. We were always taught that The song was > indeed about Western VA. > > On 8/14/2010 2:16 AM, Maureen wrote: > > Yeah..you're from West Virginia alright. > > > > All I know is that everyone I know who actually lives near the river or > the > > Blue Ridge bitched for months about the song placing those places in West > > Virginia instead of Western Virginia..and just because a songwriter > > misplaces a geographical location doesn't mean the river actually moved > to > > West Virginia. > > > > And as for living there, I lived in Virginia before you were born so > perhaps > > I have some grasp of what is where. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:324888 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
