They are running this John Denver thing on PBS

[johnnie]

Sometimes I forget what a good singer/songwriter he really was. And he was very much into the environment. Pretty neat stuff.

[roguevalley]

1. I loved him. He was environmentally and socially ahead of his time

nice, nice singer.

[Tom_Foolery]

2. His music helped me get through some rough times...

RIP, John.

[Bzzzz]

14. Me too!! n/t

[Delphinus]

20. Yep,

past rough times and present rough times. I love what he has to say in his songs.

Gone too soon. :(

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. He will always be MrG and my favorite singer...

My son was gestated and born to his music. He sang of gentleness. How can a person not like that? :hi:

[lizziegrace]

4. I missed it!

AND forgot to record it. I hope it's shown again. :(

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. To me, he was the voice of the Sixties

that part of the Sixties that was a reawakening of our love for the earth.

His music makes me happy. But the rest of my family throws stuff at me when I play it.

[LostinVA]

8. I feel your pain -- I love Karen Carpenter's singing

[TallahasseeGrannie]

10. She had the most wonderful voice

and I have never heard anything like it since.

[LostinVA]

16. Me either -- there was a nasty Lounge thread about her the

other day... I just hide it.

I knew I liked you, Grannie!

[pdx_prog]

6. To me, this was his best......there is a great message in it for all of us

IT'S ABOUT TIME

There's a full moon over India and Gandhi lives again
Who's to say you have to lose for someone else to win
In the eyes of all the people the look is much the same
For the first is just the last one when you play a dedly game

It's about time we realize it, we're all in this together
It's about time we find out it's all of us or none
It's about time we recognize it these changes in the weather
It's about time. It's about changes and it's about time

There's a light in the Vatican window for all the world to see
And a voice cries in the wilderness
and sometimes he speaks for me
I suppose I love him most of all
when he kneels to kiss the land
With his lips upon our mother's breast
he makes his strongest stand

It's about time we start to see it, the earth is our only home
It's about time we start to face it
we can't make it here all alone
It's about time we start to listen to the voices in the wind
It's about time and it's about changes and it's about time

There's a man who is my brother, I just don't know his name
But I know his home and family because I know we feel the same
And it hurts me when he's hungry and when he children cry
I too am a father and that little one is mine

It's about time we begin it, to turn the world around
It's about time we start to make it,
the dream we've always known
It's about time we start to live it the family of man
It's about time, it's about changes and it's about time
It's about peace and it's about plenty and it's about time
It's about you and me together and it's about time

[Taverner]

7. As a childin the 70's, I had three male role models

Our pastor (the very left leaning Rev Glenn Fuller)
President Jimmy Carter
and John Denver.

[Redstone]

9. If you like John Denver, you'll HATE this:

Hardly heaven, northern Jersey
Newark Airport, Pulaski Skyway
Polution's old there, killed off all the trees
Trash piled up in mountains, blowing in the breeze

Concrete road, take me home
Out of this place I don't belong
Jersey City, truckstop momma
Take me home, concrete road

All the horseflies gather 'round her
Refinery lady, stranger to clean water
Dark and dirty, floating in the sky
Disgusting smell of sewage, cinder in your eye

(chorus)

I hear her voice, from the cheap hotel she calls me
Siren reminds me that the cops aren't far away
Driving down the road, I get the feeling
I forgot the toll again today
like yesterday

(chorus)

(c) 1976 C. Goff. All rights reserved.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. Oh, I don't know...

I grew up in NJ and I think this is a lovely song.

[Redstone]

13. When I used to play music in bars, that one never failed to get a fish...

Went like clockwork; I'd ask if there were any John Denver fans there, and there was ALWAYS one, and when I said "oh, then you're really going to HATE this," it was a guarantee of one laugh a night from the audience, no matter how dead an audience it was otherwise.

Redstone

[kwassa]

12. Sunshine on My Shoulder Makes Me Sweaty ..

didn't like him then or now, may he rest in peace. Sappy.

My favorite re-make of his songs was "Country Road" done as reggae by Toots and the Maytalls, talking about West Jamaica.

[northzax]

21. I prefer the Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version

Take Me Home Country Road lyrics

Artist - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Album - Facing Future

Lyrics - Take Me Home Country Road


Almost Heaven, West Makaha,
high-ridge mountain, crystal-clear blue water.
All my friends there hanging on da beach,
young and old among them,
feel the ocean breeze.

Country road, take me home,
to the place I belong,
West Makaha, Mount Ka'ala.
Oh, take me home, oh, country road.

I heard a voice,
in the morning calm, she calls me,
as though to remind me of my Home far away.

Driving down the road,
I feel the Spirit coming to me,
from yesterday, yesterday.

All my memories hold Heaven on high,
brown-skinned woman, clear blue island sky.
Daytime sunshine, oo-ooh so bright,
midnight moon a-glowing, stars up in the sky.

Country road, take me home,
to the place I belong,
West Makaha, Mount Ka'ala.
Take me home, take me home, country road.

I hear a voice, in the morning calm, she's calling,
as though to remind me of my Home far away.
We driving down the road, I feel the Spirits coming to me,
of yesterday, yesterday.

Almost Heaven, West Makaha,
high ridge mountain, crystal clear blue waters.
All my friends there sitting on the beach,
young and old among them,
eating fish straight from the sea.

Country road, take me home,
to the place I belong,
West Makaha, oh, Mount Ka'ala.
Take me home, oh country road.

Country road, take me home,
oh to the place I belong.
West Makaha, Mount Ka'ala,
take me home, oh country road.

Country road, oh take me home,
yes to the place, to the place, I belong,
West Makaha, Mount Ka'ala,
take me home country road.

Country road, take me home,
to the place I was born,
West Makaha, Mount Ka'ala.
Take me home, country road.......

Huuhuu. Huuu-tah.
Good fo' be back.
White san', clean watah.
Hô boy, the mountain...feel the makani...
whew, what a place.

[Arugula Latte]

18. I think I like that version better!

:thumbsup:

[Redstone]

22. Thanks! Feel free to sing it as much as you want to (if you sing),

and if you ever record it on a CD, there'll be a special "DUer discount" on the royalties.

Redstone

[warrens]

15. During the great gas shortage in the 70s

He had a huge gas tank buried on his property and hoarded thousands of gallons of gasoline. Hardly an environmentalist.

[graywarrior]

17. He spent a lot of time with Michio Kushi

leader of the macrobiotic movement in Boston.

[CatholicEdHead]

19. Did they show Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk on Christmas?

I heard this song on As it Happens and ouch it was nasty.

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/denver-john/please-daddy-dont-get-drunk-on-christmas-11312.html