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Staph

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9. It's a decades old tradition that Country Roads is played at the end of successful WVU sports competitions.

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:56 PM

Mar 22

At the West Virginia women's NCAA tournament basketball game on Saturday, the NCAA insisted that Country Roads could not be played after the game, in the name of maintaining a "neutral site".

So, the 14,000 in the Coliseum simply sang it a cappella. It was glorious!

Years ago, when the WVU Alumni Band made several concert tours of Europe, the crowds would always sing along with Country Roads.

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Ha ha.....it's 2:00am at the Temple Bar in Ireland, and the last song the musical players [View all] a kennedy Mar 22 OP

How utterly cool! It's such a beautiful song. fierywoman Mar 22 #1

Are you there? Srkdqltr Mar 22 #2

No, I wish I were, but I just check it as I'm totally Irish, and that bar is ALWAYS FULL ANY TIME a kennedy Mar 22 #3

Still cool, i have never been anywhere like that. Srkdqltr Mar 22 #4

Country Roads, Take Me Home ... to the Place I Belong ... West Virginia ... FakeNoose Mar 22 #5

But of course. What better song to play as you wind things down for the night? ;-) FemDemERA Mar 22 #6

Take Me Home, Country Roads is played in pubs all over Ireland, I've been lucky to have heard it in person chia Mar 22 #7

The song is well-known in Germany also, they play it during Oktoberfest FakeNoose Mar 23 #10

Love it! Another favorite in pubs is Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline, and everyone knows the lyrics to it too. chia Mar 23 #11

Ya, love that song when sung by the Irish......although, I'm sure there might be more tourists then natives a kennedy Mar 23 #13

Damn ...wish I was at the Temple Bar in Ireland vapor2 Mar 22 #8

It's a decades old tradition that Country Roads is played at the end of successful WVU sports competitions. Staph Mar 22 #9

Dublin Earthcam, Temple Bar: chia Mar 23 #12