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PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de
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Never thought about the song that way…

Wow.

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shalafi@lemmy.world
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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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CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works
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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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AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
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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.

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