Friday, November 8, 2013

Song Analysis; John Denver - Country Roads


Todays task was to choose a song related to the topic we’ve being working on; third cultured kids. TCK are kids that constantly move from one country to another because of their parents work. As this kids change constantly the country they live, they generate a mixed cultural identity integrating the cultures of the countries where they have lived. I’ve picked a song I like very much and talks about a person how wants to go back to his real home. This is the song I’ve picked.






John Denver - Country Roads



Almost heaven West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains Shenandoah river
Life is old there older than the trees
Younger than the mountains blowin' like a breeze

Country roads take me home
To the place I belove
West Virginia mountain momma
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 teardrops in my eyes

Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads

I hear a voice in the morning hour as she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Drivin' down the road I get a feelin'
That I should have home yesterday yesterday

Country roads take me home

To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads


Country roads take me home
To the place I belove
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads


West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads

West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads

Take me home country roads
Take me home country roads



The song Country Roads talks about a person from United States how lives far away from his real home, and wants to go back to it.

The importance of this song is that it has a similar topic than the one expressed by TCK. The idea of temporary home, and the feeling of not belonging to the place where you live are common aspects for the song and the TCKs document we have being reading.
  
We can highlight some important phrases of the song, for example:

‪”Country roads take me home

To the place I be love”

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