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Roots of Mother Appalachia (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.cntraveler.com/story/appalachian-mountains-may-have-once-been-as-tall-as-the-himalayas

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never thought about the song that way...

Wow.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 West Virginia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I always wanted to hear the original version where he sings about how they strip mined all of that away for the coal and it now looks like something out of Mad Max.