• shalafi@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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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        1 year 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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          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.