Take Me Home, Country Roads

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Words & Music by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver

Lyrics

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 momma.
Take me home, country roads.

All my memories gathered 'round her.
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water.
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky.
Misty taste of moonshine,
Teardrops in my eye.

*Repeat

I hear her voice, in the mornin' hour 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.

*Repeat

Take me home, country roads.
Take me home, country roads.

Notes

John Denver, the singer-song-writer of this song, was famous around the 1970s. His "Country Roads" was one of the best songs about the beauty of nature.
The song was sung by many people and used in the 1995 movie Whisper of the Heart, which made the song famous in Japan.

Translation

天国に近いウェストバージニア
ブルーリッジ山脈　シェナンドー川
そこでの生活は昔と変わらず　木々よりも古く
山々よりは若く
そよ風のように　育まれている

*カントリーロード　僕を連れていっておくれ
僕が育ったあの場所へ
ウェストバージニアの　母なる　山々へ
ボクを連れていっておくれ　カントリーロード

思い出すのは　彼女のことばかり　（herは「故郷」の意味か）
青い海から　遠く離れた　鉱山の町
大空を暗く塗りこめ
月明かりをかすませる　（moonshineには「密造酒」の意味もある）
目ににじんだ涙

*

ある朝　僕を呼ぶ彼女の声が聞こえた
ラジオの音が　故郷から遠く離れたことを気づかせてくれた
車を飛ばしながら　僕は思った
僕は故郷に帰るべきだったんだ　もっと早くに

*

僕を連れていっておくれ　カントリーロード

Notes

この歌を歌うジョン・デンバーは、1970年代を中心に活躍したシンガーソングライターです。大自然の美しさを歌い、カントリロックを代表する１人となりました。
この歌は、多くのアーティストに歌われ、1995年に映画「耳をすませば」で使用されてから、日本でも広く知られるようになりました。

Akita Version

In 2014, ALT Russell Kabir wrote an "Akita Version" of the classic song to be used in Akita prefecture's English camp. The song replaced geographical references to West Virginia with references to Japan and particularly Akita, such as replacing "Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River" with "Dewa Mountains, Omono River." Lyrics such as, "There's komachi painted on the sky" were added to give more local flavor to the song, and give children familiar words to identify within the song. The song was a hit at English camp.

Recording of Russell Kabir performaing Country Roads (Akita Version). Due to the limitations of file uploads on Akita JET Wiki, the mp3 recording is inside of a zip archive.

Chord Chart for Country Roads (Akita Version). The lyrics in this chord chart are slightly different from those in Russell's recording.

See also

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