Brenda Lee - Country Roads

Live performance from 1972. This song is a rare track in her recorded catalog. I believe it appeared only on a Japanese album.

Songwriters: Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, John Denver

Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the sea
Younger than the mountains
Waiting there for me

Country roads, take me home
To the place where 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 where I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

I hear her voice
In the morning hour, she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Driving down the road, I get a feeling
That I should've been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home
To the place where I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

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Music

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• Live Performance
• live music

[19janellen79]

Much older than 28, at least to me.

[MrCallipygous]

@19janellen79 She was actually only 26 here. The show aired Feb 19, 1972 (Buck, Roy & the gang), but all those shows were taped before the season in 1971. Brenda was born in Dec 1944, so it's better to use 1945 as her birth year. This was a very difficult period in her life.

[19janellen79]

Is this really a 1972 performance? She would have been 28 years old.

[MrCallipygous]

@19janellen79 How old does she look?

[onnetotaki]

おばあちゃんになってからの方が魅力が増している。

(^o^)

[chrstnclmn28]

she looks 45 and not 28

[bonus73]

@MrCallipygous 50

[jg6249]

Thanks 4 uploading..Now I can view and hear one of my favorite singers in the 60's...pure music. From the Philippines

[Rankerbill1]

Would have knocked Kylie bandy in her heyday. Thanks for posting

[19janellen79]

Well, she looks tired and heavy in the video - she looks much better in later years, for example her late 30s.