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Take Me Home, Country Roads Lyrics by John Denver With Fat City
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- Recording: “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is credited to John Denver With Fat City.
- Released: Jan 3, 2012 on “The Very Best of John Denver Live”.
- Length: The recording runs 3:17.
- Genre: Filed under Pop.
- Lyrics: This page has 30 lyric lines and 31 timed cues.
- Chart: No dated chart rank is attached yet.
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Take Me Home, Country Roads lyrics by John Denver With Fat City
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0:06Almost heaven, West Virginia
0:12Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
0:19Life is old there, older than the trees
0:25Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze
0:30Country roads, take me home
0:35To the place I belong
0:41West Virginia, Mountain Mama
0:47Take me home, country roads
0:54All my memories gather 'round her
1:00Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
1:07Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
1:12Misty taste of moonshine, teardrops in my eyes
1:18Country roads, take me home
1:23To the place I belong
1:29West Virginia, Mountain Mama
1:35Take me home, country roads
1:42I hear her voice, in the mornin' hour she calls me
1:47Radio reminds me of my home far away
1:53Drivin' down the road, I get a feelin'
1:57That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday
2:04Country roads, take me home
2:10To the place I belong
2:16West Virginia, Mountain Mama
2:22Take me home, country roads, everybody sing
2:28Country roads, take me home
2:33To the place I belong
2:39West Virginia, Mountain Mama
2:45Take me home, country roads
2:51Take me home down country roads
2:57Take me home down country roads
3:01♪
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Take Me Home, Country Roads song profile
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- Jan 3, 2012Released
- 3:17Length
- 30Lyric lines
- 31Timed cues
- 175sTimed span
- Lyric record matched as “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver With Fat City
- 31 ordered lyric timestamps verified
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Release record
The matched recording is associated with “The Very Best of John Denver Live.” Available release data dates this recording to 2012-01-03. The duration attached to the recording is 3:17.
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- Album / release
- The Very Best of John Denver Live
- Released
- 2012-01-03
- Length
- 3:17
- Recording source
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