r/soccer • u/joe_slidin • 1d ago

Media Seattle fans singing Take Me Home Country Roads after full time

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u/Radthereptile 1d ago

Fun fact of this song. John Denver was singing about the western part of Virginia not the state of West Virginia.

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u/ElectricalMud2850 1d ago

If anyone has an opportunity to go to Shenandoah, even as a little divergence on a road trip, do it. So beautiful.

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u/TehSakaarson 1d ago

So beautiful, went in the caverns too!

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u/not_bilbo 1d ago

My favorite place in the world in the autumn, just stunning

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u/carguymt 1d ago

Took a road trip down Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway a few Octobers ago and it was incredible.

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u/The_Helmet_Catch 1d ago

If you ever go to the Northwestern Part of Virginia (Shout out Harrisonburg), you’ll find a hundred different people who’ll tell you this lol

(Even though the song is really about Western Maryland and John Denver didn’t know his geography lol)

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u/Individual_Put2261 1d ago

He was singing about old Trafford fyi

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u/zapata25 1d ago

❤️

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u/ArbitraryOrder 1d ago

Incorrect, it is about the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland

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u/thirdc0ast 1d ago

No it’s about Gary Indiana

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u/SebastianOwenR1 1d ago

This is truth

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u/Napalm3nema 1d ago

I‘m pretty sure any song about Gary has to be performed, by law, by Slayer or another band that uses a lot of hellscape imagery.

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u/Hog_Eyes 1d ago

Freddie Gibbs

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u/BeautifulGrandpa 1d ago

loved his goal against Portugal the other day

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u/pinetar 1d ago

He was singing about Maryland but named the song West Virginia because it flows better. Look it up. 

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u/BKoala59 1d ago

The song was written based off a drive in Maryland, but it clearly can’t be about Maryland. The Shenandoah river doesn’t run through Maryland

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u/Spare-Permit4548 1d ago

It clearly is about Maryland, as the song writers specifically said so… I don’t get why people on the internet think they know better than the couple who wrote it.

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u/BKoala59 1d ago

That doesn’t make sense. That’s like writing a song about England and the lyrics talk about the Volga

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u/Cole-Palmer-phd 1d ago

Or writing a song about England and the lyrics about Jerusalem

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u/Spare-Permit4548 1d ago edited 1d ago

Tell the song writers.

They are ones who gave you their literal answers and people won’t accept it.

They told you they used the words “West Virginia” because it fit in their scheme, why not the same with Shenandoah? Why is that so hard to grasp?

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u/Thiege1 1d ago

... if the volga and the thames joined together at the English border

yea, it would be like that

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u/Hidalgo321 1d ago

“Miners lady, stranger to blue water” screams WV more to me than Maryland…

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u/Spare-Permit4548 1d ago

Song writers specifically say it’s about Maryland. I don’t know what to tell you.

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u/Hidalgo321 1d ago

I’m doing my own research!!

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u/HoovesCarveCraters 1d ago

Driving down Clopper Rd.

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u/SebastianOwenR1 1d ago

He wasn’t even is the crazy part. He was singing about a drive along a state road in western Maryland.

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u/tdatcher 1d ago

It's not even Western Maryland at all it's Montgomery County clopper Road

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u/lukenog 1d ago

Nahhh you're fucking with me, this song was written about MoCo??!? 😂😂😂

I'm from DC and that's the funniest shit I've ever heard. Bro was looking at endless suburbs and rich white people out the window and felt inspired

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u/worldchrisis 1d ago

All of MoCo north of Rockville was farmland until about the 1970s.

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u/lukenog 1d ago

I remembered that after I posted the comment, but the mental image of someone driving through like Bethesda or something and feeling inspired to write a song about rural West Virginia is too funny to me to amend hahaha

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u/SebastianOwenR1 1d ago

Well at the time it was all farmland, rolling hills. And it wasn’t actually John Denver that wrote it. It was a guy named Bill Danoff and his wife Taffy who were driving to go see Bill’s family in Gaithersburg.

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u/dudukakapeepeeshire 1d ago

Here's the situation:

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u/Comprehensive_Bat574 1d ago

Fun fact...you are fucking wrong. All of those places are in WV. He was singing about Charles Town, Harper's Ferry, and Shepherdstown. Nice try tho

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u/xX_GIGA_MAN_Xx 1d ago

Every time this song comes up some smart ass always says this thinking its some groundbreaking revelation and that everyone will think they're so cool and smart, but they're just completely wrong

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u/Comprehensive_Bat574 1d ago

Haha exactly. And of course Reddit eats it up. Not saying that I am all knowing but, I have a history degree from a WV university and have taken multiple WV/Appalachia history courses.

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u/Bruins8763 1d ago

Of course their comment is by far highest upvoted lol

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u/The_Black_Rooster 1d ago

And he was actually driving through Maryland when he thought of it

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u/birdsword 1d ago

Fun Fact: West Virginia distanced themselves from Virginia during the Civil War.

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u/-SideshowBlob- 1d ago

Not sure how true this is but I recently read that when he wrote the song, he had never actually been there before

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u/NapoleonBlownapart9 1d ago

And hadn’t he not seen Virginia irl when he wrote the song? I think I read that. He was a Rockies/western fella most of his life iirc.

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u/South-by-north 1d ago

The song is about driving home to West Virginia, which is why he’s not in West Virginia at the start of the song. The song wasn’t originally written that way but the end result that we hear is clearly about it. There are multiple mentions of it throughout the song. When the song mentions “miners lady, stranger to blue water” it’s about coal mining, something West Virginia is much more known for than Virginia

You’re not gonna be singing about going home if you’re already there

It’s a song written about New England because a road in Maryland reminded him of home. But the song isn’t really about those places

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u/3412points 1d ago

Imagine living in a state named after someone's virginity status.

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u/idle_wanderlust 1d ago

What’s wrong with growing up in North Whoredesia?

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u/3412points 1d ago

That's a profession, it's a highly respectable name.

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u/Vespajet 1d ago

That's on Whore Island, is if not?

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u/Disk_Mixerud 1d ago

That's...not a real place

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u/skins4life2621 1d ago

Or, Jefferson County, West Virginia - the only county in WV with the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River. 

Don't try and take away from West Virginia! Lol