I am still wondering why people are getting angry and what the big deal is. Who cares where the river and mountains are at...its a song...they can be in California for all it matters. It's a song folks...get a grip.
-----Original Message----- From: Medic [mailto:hofme...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:26 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: West Virginia (Re: Piling On: Economists Call Obama On Universal Backing Claim) 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:324898 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
