Showing posts with label John Denver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Denver. Show all posts

Thursday, November 26, 2015

ATF: Backroads

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



Country Roads
John Denver
Almost heaven
West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Shenandoah River
Life is old there
Older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Blowing like a breeze

Country roads
Take me home
To the place
I belong
West Virginia
Mountain mama
Take me home
Country roads

All my memories
Gather round her
Miner's lady
Stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty
Painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine
Teardrop in my eye

Country roads
Take me home
To the place
I belong
West Virginia
Mountain mama
Take me home
Country roads

I hear her voice in the morning hour as she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Driving down the road I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday
Yesterday

Country roads
Take me home
To the place
I belong
West Virginia
Mountain mama
Take me home
Country roads
Country roads
Take me home
To the place
I belong
West Virginia
Mountain mama
Take me home
Country roads
Take me home
Down country roads
Take me home
Down country roads



Country Road
James Taylor
Take to the highway won't you lend me your name
Your way and my way seem to be one and the same
Mama don't understand it
She wants to know where I've been
I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to pass that way again

But you know I could feel it
On a country road

Sail on home to Jesus won't you good girls and boys
I'm all in pieces you can have your own choice
But I can hear a heavenly band full of angels
And they're coming to set me free
I don't know nothing 'bout the why or when
But I can tell that it's bound to be

Because I could feel it child
Yeah
On a country road

I guess my feet know where they want me to go
Walking on a country road
Yeah

Take to the highway won't you lend me your name
Your way and my way seem to be one and the same child
Mama don't understand it
She wants to know where I've been
I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to pass that way again

But I could feel it Lord
On a country road

Walk on down
Walk on down
Walk on down
Walk on down
Walk on down a country road

Country road

Whoa
Yeah
Walking on a country road

Country road
Country road

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Monday, July 20, 2015

ATF: Rocky Mountain Highs

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



Rocky Mountain High
John Denver
He was born in the summer
Of his twenty-seventh year
Coming home
To a place he'd never been before
Left yesterday behind him
You might say he was born again
Might say he found a key for every door
When he first came to the mountains
His life was far away
On the road
And hangin' by a song
But the string's already broken
And he doesn't really care
Keeps changin' fast
It don't last for long

The Colorado Rocky Mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
The shadow from the starlight
Is softer than a lullaby
Rocky Mountain high
In Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado

He climbed cathedral mountains
Saw silver clouds below
Saw everything as far as you can see
And they say that he got crazy once
And he tried to touch the sun
And he lost a friend
But kept the memory
Now he walks in quiet solitude
The forests and the streams
Seeking grace in every step he takes
His sight has turned inside himself
To try and understand
The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake

The Colorado Rocky Mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
You talk to God
And listen to the casual reply
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado

Now his life is full of wonder
But his heart still knows some fear
Of a simple thing
He cannot comprehend
Why they try to
Tear the mountains down
To bring in a couple more
More people
More scars upon the land

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
He know he'd be a poorer man
If he never saw an eagle fly
Rocky Mountain high
Colorado Rocky Mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
Friends around the campfire
Everybody's high
High
High
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
High in Colorado



Rocky Mountain Way
Joe Walsh
Spent the last year
Rocky Mountain way
Couldn't get much higher
Out to pasture
Think it's safe to say
Time to open fire

And we don't need the ladies cryin'
'Cause the story's sad
'Cause the Rocky Mountain way
Is better than the way we had
Oh oh oh

Well
He's tellin' us this
And he's tellin' us that
Changes it every day
Says it doesn't matter
Bases are loaded
And Casey's at bat
Playin' it play by play
Time to change the batter

And we don't need the ladies cryin'
'Cause the story's sad
Aha
The Rocky Mountain way
Is better than the way we had
Hey hey hey

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