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By Alabama, John Denver, and Toby Keith. By Bill Danoff, John Denver, and Toby Keith. Arranged by David Maddux. This edition: pdf. Country. 16 pages. David Maddux #1415240. Published by David Maddux (A0.1855696).
The Y’All Means All revue opens with a theatrical one-two punch that sets both the emotional tone and the spectacle standard for everything that follows. As the house lights dim, a lone tenor steps in front of a closed scrim — and from the darkness, the unmistakable opening of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” drifts in as prerecorded orchestration. The song’s origin is pure mythology: Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert conceived it while driving to a Maryland family reunion in late 1970. Hoping to sell it to Johnny Cash, they instead played it for Denver at a late-night Georgetown jam session — after a car accident had broken Denver’s thumb on the way. He fell in love with it on the spot. The three stayed up until morning finishing it, and Denver premiered the completed song at the Cellar Door that same night to a five-minute standing ovation. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971 and is now an official state song of West Virginia — a state none of its three writers had ever visited when they wrote it. The tenor finishes, the scrim flies out, and the live band ignites. The full chorus surges into Alabama’s “Mountain Music” (1982) — a song Randy Owen took three years to write, distilling his Appalachian upbringing into a blur of riverbanks, sawmill-plate baseball, and Cajun hideaways. It became the first of what would be Alabama’s five consecutive ACM Entertainer of the Year titles and remains their best-selling studio album title track, now certified five-times platinum. The medley closes with Toby Keith’s “Should’ve Been A Cowboy” — his 1993 debut single, written in a bathroom at a Kansas hunting lodge while his roommate slept (Keith didn’t want to wake him; he was, as Keith put it, “hateful when you’d wake him up”). Born from a stranger’s dance-floor rejection — “John, I guess you should’ve been a cowboy” — the song became the most-played country song of the entire 1990s with over three million radio spins. Keith died in 2024, and this number serves as a tribute. Three songs. Three origin stories. One knockout opening.
part-predominant rehearsal tracks and accompaniment track available at davidmaddux.com
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By Alabama, John Denver, and Toby Keith. By Bill Danoff, John Denver, and Toby Keith. Arranged by David Maddux. This edition: pdf. Country. 16 pages. David Maddux #1415240. Published by David Maddux (A0.1855696).
The Y’All Means All revue opens with a theatrical one-two punch that sets both the emotional tone and the spectacle standard for everything that follows. As the house lights dim, a lone tenor steps in front of a closed scrim — and from the darkness, the unmistakable opening of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” drifts in as prerecorded orchestration. The song’s origin is pure mythology: Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert conceived it while driving to a Maryland family reunion in late 1970. Hoping to sell it to Johnny Cash, they instead played it for Denver at a late-night Georgetown jam session — after a car accident had broken Denver’s thumb on the way. He fell in love with it on the spot. The three stayed up until morning finishing it, and Denver premiered the completed song at the Cellar Door that same night to a five-minute standing ovation. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971 and is now an official state song of West Virginia — a state none of its three writers had ever visited when they wrote it. The tenor finishes, the scrim flies out, and the live band ignites. The full chorus surges into Alabama’s “Mountain Music” (1982) — a song Randy Owen took three years to write, distilling his Appalachian upbringing into a blur of riverbanks, sawmill-plate baseball, and Cajun hideaways. It became the first of what would be Alabama’s five consecutive ACM Entertainer of the Year titles and remains their best-selling studio album title track, now certified five-times platinum. The medley closes with Toby Keith’s “Should’ve Been A Cowboy” — his 1993 debut single, written in a bathroom at a Kansas hunting lodge while his roommate slept (Keith didn’t want to wake him; he was, as Keith put it, “hateful when you’d wake him up”). Born from a stranger’s dance-floor rejection — “John, I guess you should’ve been a cowboy” — the song became the most-played country song of the entire 1990s with over three million radio spins. Keith died in 2024, and this number serves as a tribute. Three songs. Three origin stories. One knockout opening.
part-predominant rehearsal tracks and accompaniment track available at davidmaddux.com
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
Preview: Medley: Take Me Home, Country Roads with Mountain Music and Should've Been A Cowboy
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