Take Me Home, Country Roads Trivia Questions

WVU fans adopted it immediately after its 1971 release. It's played at every home football game and has become a beloved tradition, despite the geographical errors.

The correct title has always included the 's'—'Country Roads.' The singular version is a common misremembering, not an original draft.

RCA executives initially rejected the single, considering it too country for pop radio. Denver insisted, and it became one of his biggest hits.

In 2014, the West Virginia Legislature adopted it as a state song, despite Denver never living there and the song's geographical inaccuracies.

Denver didn't write it alone; co-writers Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert based it on a road trip in Maryland. The song almost wasn't about West Virginia at all.

The Shenandoah River flows through Virginia but crosses into West Virginia at its mouth, joining the Potomac at Harpers Ferry. Thus, it does flow through West Virginia.

John Denver performed 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' on The Muppet Show in a 1979 episode, but it was a group number with multiple Muppets, not a duet with Miss Piggy.

Danoff was inspired by driving on a winding road in Maryland, near Gaithersburg. He saw a sign for 'Western Maryland' and thought it sounded like a place to go home to.