This song appears on nine albums, and was first released on the Aerie Album, then The Country Roads Collection and The Rocky Mountain Collection Albums, and has also been rerecorded on the Greatest Hits Vol 1, John Denver (Italian), Take Me Home, Country Roads and other Hits, Country Classics and Voice of America Albums. A live version also appears on the Live In London Album.

It's a long way from LA to Denver
It's a long time to hang in the sky

It's a long way home to Starwood in Aspen
A sweet Rocky Mountain paradise
Oh, my sweet Rocky Mountain paradise

Springtime is rollin' â'‚¬?round slowly
Grey skies are bringin' me down
I can't remember when I've ever been so lonely
I forgot what it's like to be home
Can't remember what it's like to be home

But I think on my lady's sweet memories
I think on my children's sweet smiles
I think on my home in Starwood in Aspen
All my friends and the snow covered hills
Oh, my friends are the snow covered hills

And I tell you I'm happy to be here
To share and consider this time
For I see here the shadows of changes
And a feeling of new friends to find
And I see here some new friends to find

But it's a long way from this place to Denver
It's a long time to hang in the sky
It's a long way home to Starwood in Aspen
A sweet Rocky Mountain paradise
Oh, my sweet Rocky Mountain paradise

Words and music by John Denver