I'm pretty sure John Denver would be rolling in his grave if he knew that his song was making people angry.
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I do not understand your point. What does 'for the most part, are > not in West Virginia' actually mean? The places mentioned in the song > are in West Virginia. > > 'For the most part', the Mississippi River is not in Louisiana, does > that mean if someone wrote a song about the Mississippi River and > Louisiana that it is in accurate? > > Lets go over this one more time, since you seem to have difficulty > understanding this: > > 1. The Shenandoah River flows through West Virginia. > 2. The Blue Ridge Mountains extend into West Virginia. > 3. The road mentioned in the song is actually in Maryland (which, > oddly enough, is closer to West Virginia than it is to Western > Virginia) > 4. The guys who wrote the song claim to have changed the words while > writing it based on what a friend had told them about the West > Virginia countryside. > > Yet, people continue to claim the song is about Western Virginia. > > > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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:324893 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
