The entire Allianz Arena singing “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is incredible 🙌

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— ESPN (@espn) November 13, 2022

Pretty cool. Sold out stadium. Wonder how many were Americans?

many with the us having a base there

That's pretty cool. Sounded great! Surprising song choice. I wonder if there were any Mountaineers influencing the selection.

Maybe Henry John Deutschendorf is just a kind of a name those Germans would cotton to.

Loved John Denver. The little ******* ran out of gas and crashed his ultra elite aircraft. Great talent. Left us way too soon.

The song has a life of its own outside the USA. I've lived in Europe in spurts for about 3 total years, and they all know this one - in English. It was even popular in Eastern/Central Europe. One time I was at a dinner buffet in Hungary in 1997. There was a band playing mostly pop and euro-pop stuff. Then they started with Country Roads. It was awesome at the time, and I sorta thought "Well, the song works anywhere."

The popularity hasn't died down since then. When the song was used in recent years for the Fallout '76 preview, I had a friend tell me he couldn't stop singing it. Then he sends me a link to what he thinks is the original version of the song and it is by a Japanese pop band . . . <scratches head>

This song is now like "No Woman No Cry." Doesn't matter what it means or what the history or the lyrics are, it just makes it into the rotation. At least the fans in Germany recognized it as an American song to sing at an American sporting event.

Watchin' and listnin' to that "Take Me home you Mountain Mammas" song,

and I wuz ahmost VERKLEMPT !!!

Verklempt!!!

Southern culture as a lot of international reach surprisingly.

Its one part of the American Empire that our ruling class does not really want to export but yet still gets quickly picked up around the world.