
"The first album that had great success for me
was an album called Poems, Prayers & Promises, and the song that
really made that album a success is one that I wrote with two friends, Bill and
Taffy (Nivert) Danoff, from Starland Vocal Band. I met them in a place called
The Cellar Door in Washington, DC when I was working with the Mitchell Trio and
later when I started performing on my own.
When I first had the
opportunity to be a headliner at The Cellar Door, they asked me who I wanted for
an opening act. I asked about having Bill and Taffy, who called themselves Fat
City. They came and opened the shows for me.
The first night we were
together we went back to their place after closing, just to visit, see what was
going on and enjoy being together. We had a bunch of songs we wanted to show
each other. One of the songs was one they had started and were unable to
complete. It was a song called "Take Me Home, Country Roads".
In
the wee hours of the morning, sometime between Christmas and New Year's Eve, in
their basement apartment in Washington, DC, we wrote "Take Me Home, Country
Roads". It became my first Number One record."
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From "Take Me Home" by
John Denver. Copyright © 1994 by John Denver
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TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY
ROADS Written By John Denver, Bill Danoff, and Taffy
Nivert
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 as she
calls me The radio reminds me of my home far away And drivin' down the
road I get a feelin' 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, Country Roads Take me home, Country Roads
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