Last Monday (the Memorial holiday in US), our entire family really enjoyed豆公 songs, which all of us unanimously voted to be better than the originals. I know that John Denver et. al. are big names, and they are not bad, but 豆公 is simply better!
My eldest son Nigel had taken piano lessons, flute lessons, but his latest hobby was singing, and he took voice lessons (pop type) for about a year before he went to college. He will continue his voice lessons once he graduates from college. Anyway, as soon as he heard the song “Country Roads, Take Me Home”, he explained to me that the original song was called “Clopper Road, Take Me Home”, and the lyric made numerous references to the Clopper road. And the Clopper road (in Germantown, Maryland) is practically right in front of our home. What a coincidence!
Also, I have taken a few bike trips to the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains, as mentioned in the song’s lyrics. What a small world.
For those interested, here is one of the many references about this song:
http://www.last.fm/music/John+Denver/_/Take+Me+Home,+Country+Roads/+wiki
“According to a radio interview with Nivert, the road that inspired the song is nowhere near the state (West Virginia). It is a road close to her native Washington, D.C., in nearby Montgomery County, Maryland, where Denver often visited. Clopper Road still exists today, but the landscape has changed drastically from the bucolic landscape that once surrounded it.”