Inventory Steve's Blog About Steve Bed and Breakfast Vacation Rental West Virginia E-Mail Steve Home "The first album that had great success for me was an album called Poems, Prayers & Promises, and the song that really made that album a success is one that I wrote with two friends, Bill and Taffy (Nivert) Danoff, from Starland Vocal Band. I met them in a place called The Cellar Door in Washington, DC when I was working with the Mitchell Trio and later when I started performing on my own. When I first had the opportunity to be a headliner at The Cellar Door, they asked me who I wanted for an opening act. I asked about having Bill and Taffy, who called themselves Fat City. They came and opened the shows for me. The first night we were together we went back to their place after closing, just to visit, see what was going on and enjoy being together. We had a bunch of songs we wanted to show each other. One of the songs was one they had started and were unable to complete. It was a song called "Take Me Home, Country Roads". In the wee hours of the morning, sometime between Christmas and New Year's Eve, in their basement apartment in Washington, DC, we wrote "Take Me Home, Country Roads". It became my first Number One record." From "Take Me Home" by John Denver. Copyright © 1994 by John Denver Buy the Book TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS Written By John Denver, Bill Danoff, and Taffy Nivert 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 mama Take me home, Country Roads All my memories gather 'round her Miner's 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 mama Take me home, Country Roads I hear her voice, in the mornin' hour as 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 Country Roads, take me home, to the place I belong West Virginia mountain mama Take me home, Country Roads Country Roads, take me home, to the place I belong West Virginia mountain mama Take me home, Country Roads Take me home, Country Roads Take me home, Country Roads Copyright © 1997 - 2020 Steve Weaver Aircraft Sales. Specifications are based upon owner's representations, and subject to buyer's verification. Aircraft are subject to prior sale or removal from market.