Mountain Mama

This song will always, always remind me of the mountains of Virginia.

"Check your facts," I hear some of you say. "It's about West Virginia, not regular Virginia. West Virginia even came up with a whole license plate slogan about it."

Ah, but I submit for your consideration a tidbit from the infallible Wikipedia:

The land features mentioned prominently in the song lyrics – the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains – have only marginal associations with the state of West Virginia, and would seem to be more appropriate to describe western Virginia.

So there. I can attribute it to Harrisonburg and Roanoke and Catawba and all the pretty mountainness. I stick my tongue out at you, naysayers, and will continue to feel homesick for Virginia mountains upon every play of this song.