Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months agoLOVE this song, got it in a couple of lists. Never understood that lyric. Mr. Denver was ahead of us all.
Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months agoLOVE this song, got it in a couple of lists. Never understood that lyric. Mr. Denver was ahead of us all.
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.
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 7 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.