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September 03, 2025

34. Take Me Home

Today I’m missing my village, my home where I was born, where I was raised.

 

And as usual listening 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, blowing like a breeze

Country roads, take me home

To the place I belong

 

West Virginia

Mountain mamma, take me home

Country roads

 

All my memories, gather round her

Modest 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 mamma, take me home

Country roads

 

I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me

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 mamma, take me home

Country roads


(Top Photo courtesy Amolikka Mishra, with thanks.)