Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite its deep connection to West Virginia, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was actually inspired by a backroad in Maryland. The ...

John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is played following every home victory at West Virginia University. The country ...

Last summer, I sat on a Delta Air Lines plane for eight hours, listened to “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and said goodbye to a newfound home. After trading rural Ohio for the University of Michigan, I ...

"Country roads, take me home / To the place I belong"—few choruses are more iconic...or more misleading. John Denver's beloved ballad may be West Virginia's unofficial anthem, but here's the truth: ...