Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  LOVE this song, got it in a couple of lists. Never understood that lyric. Mr. Denver was ahead of us all.

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  • CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He was also singing about Western Virginia, and not West Virginia because the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge mountains are both in Virginia.

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    • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean… as someone who (many moons ago) won a golden horseshoe for my knowledge of WV: both of those geographic features are also partially located in southeastern West Virginia.

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