 Genius Lyrics
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John Denver – Paradise
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[Verse 1] / When I was a child, the family would travel / Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born / There's a backwards old town that's often remembered / So many times
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John Denver – Windsong
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The wind is the whisper of our mother the Earth / The wind is the hand of our father the sky / The wind watches over our struggles and pleasures / The wind is the goddess who first
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John Denver – Leaving on a Jet Plane
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[Verse 1] / All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go / I'm standing here outside your door / I hate to wake you up to say goodbye / But the dawn is breaking, it's early morn / The
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John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads
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[Verse 1] / Almost Heaven, West Virginia / Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River / Life is old there, older than the trees / Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze / [
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John Denver – Annie's Song
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“Annie’s Song” is an ode to his then-wife Annie Martell Denver (who is featured on the album cover of Back Home Again), written while on a ski lift to the top of the Ajax Mountain
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John Denver – Rocky Mountain High
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Denver got the inspiration for the song when he and a group of friends watched the Perseid Meteor Shower near Williams Lake in the Colorado high country.
While many claim it’s a
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John Denver – Isabel
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Isabel is waiting / In a room of many shadows / Her eyes like flashing diamonds / Shining brightly from the sea / Her hair in silken tresses / Like a robe around her shoulders
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John Denver & The Muppets (Ft. Beaker, Beauregard, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo (Muppet), Kermit the Frog, Lew Zealand, Miss Piggy, Robin the Frog, Rowlf the Dog & Statler and Waldorf) – Twelve Days Of Christmas
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[John Denver] / On the first day of Christmas / My true love gave to me / A partridge in a pear tree / [Fozzie Bear] / On the second day of Christmas / My true love gave to me
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John Denver – Calypso
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“Calypso” by John Denver appears on his 1975 album, Windsong.
This is a tribute to everything Jacques Cousteau and his ship, Calypso stood for: marine exploration, discovery and
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John Denver – Sunshine on My Shoulders
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“Sunshine On My Shoulders” topped the Billboard Hot 100 & Easy Listening chart and it also topped Canada’s RPM Top Singles chart.
According to John Denver about the song:
I wrote
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John Denver – Perhaps Love
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[Verse 1] / Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm / It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm / And in those times of trouble when you
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John Denver – Heart To Heart
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I haven't seen all there is to see / But I've seen quite a bit / Some things I'll always remember / Some things I wish that I could forget / I haven't quite been around the world
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John Denver – Season Suite: Summer
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[Verse 1] / Silently the morning mist is lying on the water / Captive moonlight waiting for the dawn / Softly like a baby's breath, a breeze begins to whisper / The sun is coming
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John Denver – Prisoners
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[Verse 1] / Josie works the counter at the downtown five and dime / Anything at all to help her pass the time / Her mama keeps the baby and grandpa rambles on / About the good
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John Denver – Eclipse
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The sun is slowly fadin' in the western sky / Sometimes it takes forever for the day to end / Sometimes it takes a lifetime / Sometimes I think I'll never see the sun again / There
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John Denver (Ft. John Martin Sommers) – Thank God I'm a Country Boy
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Fifth song off John Denver’s Back Home Again released in 1974. Though recorded by Denver the song was actually written by John Martin Sommers who was a member of Denver’s back up
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John Denver – Fly Away
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All of her days have gone soft and cloudy / All of her dreams have gone dry / All of her nights have gone sad and shady / She's gettin' ready to fly / Fly away (mmmm) / Fly away (
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John Denver – I'm Sorry
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I’m Sorry topped the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Country Singles and Adult Contemporary chart in the fall of 1975.
It also peaked at #1 on the RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in
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John Denver – Today
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Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine / I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine / A million tomorrows shall all pass away / 'Ere I forget all the joy
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John Denver – This Old Guitar
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[Verse 1] / This old guitar taught me to sing a love song / Showed me how to laugh and how to cry / It introduced me to some friends of mine / And brightened up some days / It
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John Denver – Ann
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I know I'll never find another hunk of woman like my Ann / She makes me feel like a great big man / I'm gonna go tell her momma what I think about her, say thank you ma'am / For
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John Denver – Amsterdam
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In the port Of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sings / Of the dreams that he brings from the wide open sea / In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who sleeps / While the river
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John Denver – Sweet Surrender
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Lost and alone on some forgotten highway / Travelled by many remembered by few / Lookin' for something that I can believe in / Lookin' for something that I'd like to do with my
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John Denver – On the Road
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[Verse 1] / Back in 1958 / We drove an old V8 / And when it'd gone a hundred thou' / We got out and pushed it a mile / [Chorus] / We didn't know who we were / We didn't know what
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John Denver – Season Suite: Winter
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[Verse] / It's cold and it's getting colder / It's gray and white and winter all around / And, oh, I must be getting older / And all this snow is tryin' to get me down / [Chorus
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John Denver – Foxfire Suite
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“Foxfire Suite” by John Denver appears on his 1991 album, Different Directions.
Unlike so many of his songs that became worldwide hits, and several becoming legendary; this one
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John Denver – Wooden Indian
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Well I was a red man / I was proud, I was strong / You were the white man / And you stole away my home / Now I am a wooden Indian / Painted dreams inside my head / Times THE WAY
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John Denver – River
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River, there are no stars in the city / Here there is no telephone in the trees / Beautiful days all on the water / And all I can do is write you a letter / River, it's cold here
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John Denver – Goodbye Again
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[Verse 1] / It's five o'clock this morning and the sun is on the rise / There's frosting on the window pane and sorrow in your eyes / The stars are fading quietly, night is nearly
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John Denver – What Child Is This
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[Verse 1] / What child is this, who, laid to rest / On Mary's lap is sleeping? / Whom angels greet with anthems sweet / While shepherds watch are keeping? / [Chorus] / This, this
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John Denver – It's About Time
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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
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John Denver & The Muppets – Noel: Christmas Eve 1913
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A frosty Christmas Eve, when the stars where shining / I traveled forth alone, where westward falls the hill / And for many, many a village, in the darkness of the valley / Distant
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John Denver – Back Home Again
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[Verse 1] / There's a storm across the valley, clouds are rolling in / The afternoon is heavy on your shoulders / There's a truck out on the four lane a mile or more away / And the
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John Denver – Yesterday
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Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away / Now it looks as though they're here to stay / Oh, I believe in yesterday / Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be / There's a
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John Denver – Follow Me
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It's by far the hardest thing I've ever done / To be so in love with you and so alone / Follow me where I go, what I do, who I know / Make it part of you to be a part of me
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John Denver – Opposite Tables
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Father oh father please hear me / My song is a cry of desperation / All of the words I hear / Have lost their meaning / My life is a well of confusion / Drowned out by the sound of
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