Country Roads: Song and lyrics. and version

[Lone Cat]

OK This thread is related to the upcoming Fallout 76 but the main idea is NOT! the game itself, it's the song featured in Bethesda presentations on E3 2016. it's John Denver's signature song that gives the genre its name.

Country Road.

This is the song i've been grown up to. this version..


But this is what featured in E3 announcement (actually there were two)

Is this also original version or Beth's F76 OST? (ignoring in-universe speeches ) and it has 'alernate lyrics' quoting what writers (whom?) did saw along the way. this lyrics is not what i've known before.

Did John Denver and The Fat City (the duo who Denver came across in a nightclub) also write this alternate lyrics and the 'in concert descriptions' introducing this part quoting that he saw the commune of hippies ? or is this a parody given by Todd Howard of Bethesda?
If this alternate lyrics did exists. when or which concert did he reveal this part?

 

[Beardy Unixer]

Mudcat knows everything about music.

Dorothy Horstman's "Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy" (copyright 1975) got the idea of asking the composers or artists of country songs for the backstory. Bill and Taffy Danoff say there that the original second verse was:

In the foothills, hiding from the clouds
Pink and purple West Virginia farmhouse
Naked ladies, men who looked like Christ
And a dog named Pancho nibbling on the rice.

"We knew before it was finished that it would never get on the air, but we wrote the chorus anyway. During the last week of December 1970, John Denver came over to the apartment. . . heard the song, got excited and dropped the second verse and finished writing it at six o-clock in the morning."

When asked for the song, I ask people if they are ready for the original lyrics and sing those. . . just as I add the suppressed verses from "This Land is Your Land" and the politically VERY incorrect verses of Oh Susanna

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=94075

 

[Lone Cat]

And the trailer vid i've shown above is the mix of Betty made and one of John Denver's gig where alternate lyrics are added. correct??