Country Roads Take Me Home

乡村小路带我回家

丹佛(Denver) 与当时已婚的朋友比尔(Bill)和塔菲·丹诺夫(Danoff) 夫妇一起创作了这首歌。 丹佛在华盛顿特区与丹诺夫夫妇一起演出，演出结束后他们一起回到比尔和塔菲 (Taffy) 的家，在那里他们为他演奏了这首歌。

丹佛帮助他们完成了这首歌，第二天晚上他们一起在舞台上演唱。 丹佛知道他手上有一首热门歌曲，并把丹诺夫一家带到纽约，在那里他们一起录制了这首歌——你可以听到比尔和塔菲在背景里的歌声。

这首歌中所描写的乡间小路是在西弗吉尼亚州，但丹佛从未去过西弗吉尼亚州。 比尔和塔菲夫妇也从未去过西弗吉尼亚州！他们是在开车去马里兰州的时候，开始写这首歌。丹诺夫两人的灵感来自一位确实住在西弗吉尼亚州的朋友寄给他的明信片，以及从他长大时在马萨诸塞州收听的来自西弗吉尼亚州威灵城的强大的，呼号为"WWVA"的中波电台。

比尔·丹诺夫在 2011 年告诉美国国家公共电台：“我只是觉得，我从很远的地方听到了对我来说如此奇特的声音。而我对西弗吉尼亚州的了解，还不如对欧洲的了解呢。”

资料来源：https://www.songfacts.com/facts/john-denver/take-me-home-country-roads

歌词：

宛如天堂，西弗吉尼亚州

蓝似天的山脊，美丽的谢南多亚河

那里的生活如此纯朴，比树木还古老

比山脉来的年轻，像微风一样成长茁壮


乡村小路  带我回家

回到我归属的地方

母亲般的山  西弗吉尼亚州啊

带我回到故乡吧  那蜿蜒的乡间小路


我所有的回忆  都离不开她

矿工的女儿  对海水是如此的陌生

黑夜和尘土涂满了天空

在朦胧的月光之下  霎时湿透了我的眼眸


乡村小路  带我回家

回到我归属的地方

母亲般的山  西弗吉尼亚州啊

带我回到故乡吧  那蜿蜒的乡间小路


在刚破晓之时  我仿佛顶尖他呼唤我的声音

但收音机的音乐提醒了我  归乡的路依旧漫长

在奔驰赶路的时候  突然心头涌上一股情怀

我早该在昨天就踏上返家的道路  昨天


乡村小路  带我回家

回到我归属的地方

母亲般的山  西弗吉尼亚州啊

带我回到故乡吧  那蜿蜒的乡间小路


乡村小路  带我回家

回到我归属的地方

母亲般的山  西弗吉尼亚州啊

带我回到故乡吧  那蜿蜒的乡间小路


乡村小路  带我回家

带我回到故乡吧  那蜿蜒的乡间小路


讨论问题：

Denver wrote this song with his friends Bill and Taffy Danoff, who were married at the time. Denver was in Washington, DC to perform with the Danoffs, and after the show they went back to Bill and Taffy’s home where they played him what they had of this song.

Denver helped them complete the song, and the next night they sang it together on stage. Denver knew he had a hit song on his hands, and brought the Danoffs to New York where they recorded the song together - you can hear Bill and Taffy on background vocals.

The country roads in this song are in West Virginia, but Denver had never even been to West Virginia. Bill and Taffy Danoff started writing the song while driving to Maryland - they'd never been to West Virginia either! Danoff got his inspiration from postcards sent to him by a friend who DID live there, and from listening to the powerful AM station WWVA out of Wheeling, West Virginia, which he picked up in Massachusetts when he was growing up.

Bill Danoff told NPR in 2011: "I just thought the idea that I was hearing something so exotic to me from someplace as far away. West Virginia might as well have been in Europe, for all I knew."

Source: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/john-denver/take-me-home-country-roads


Almost heaven, West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River

Life is old there, older than the trees

Younger than the mountains, growin' 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 mornin' hour, she calls me

The radio reminds me of my home far away

Drivin' down the road, I get a feelin'

That I should've 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


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