"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver. Denver released it as a single on April 12, 1971, [...]
worth noting as well, that Country Roads did get a re-recording in Japanese, used for Studio Ghibli's 1995 movie, Whisper of the Heart (Mimi o Sumaseba) sung by Youko Honma, who voiced the film's Main Character, the song is sung from her perspective, and this version was apparently really popular in Japan