My grandma would sing this song to me to get me to sleep, even now, at 16, when I stay at her house she’ll still sit with me and sing to me while I fall asleep. She’s the most kind and sweet woman I know.. love her more than anything ❤️❤️ Edit Aug 2022- my grandma passed away September 9th 2021. What I wouldn’t give to hear her sweet voice sing this to me again. I miss her so much everyday. She was my rock🤍
Keep cherishing those moments with your Grandma and thank you for sharing your feelings and love. In todays world of anger violence hatred etc, its so refreshing to hear of love.
My grandson is 12 years old I got him to listen to some of Johns music recently and now a year later he was wearing some headphones and guess what. Listening to John Denver so proud
When my sister's and I were 2,3, and 5 we sang this in the back seat of my dad's car. No seatbelts so it's a crazy memory. Dad would whistle and mom would sing to us. The best of times. Loved the sixties!
It# 1965 again and I think of Tony when I listen to this song, who called me to ask if I wanted to go to the NY Port Authority to see him off to Duluth and say goodby. He said he'd pick me up at 5 but he never came. I had him paged at the PA but he never answered. We had a short but wonderful romance and I think of him a lot. I suppose he got sent to Nam...he never came back...never saw him again...but I will always remember him.
My beloved John...thanks to him I learnt my English, poetry, love for the Sacred Nature....I wish I could meet a man like him in my life...he left on a jet plane for Heaven....god bless you John..your splendid soul is working for a better world...❤
I remember when my grandma heard this, It made me cry about thinking this song My grandma died last night and This song will make me think about her 😭 Rip Grandma 1944-2020
OMG bro I feel for you bro it just makes me cry reading the comments and you man I feal bad for and I feel you rip your Nana and I hope you had a good time with her wen she was thare cas I say I would love to have my grandpa back
I'm wondering the feeling at 70's when communication was not as vast and easy like right now. Leaving a girl... Always picturing each other without not knowing what they soulmate are doing, only have 1 or 2 photos on the pocket. Cant wait to see the smile. What a nice era.
@@garyjones2561 it still sucks though because some girls today are so glued to a phone they only want to text and never want to meet in person. In all honesty i would rather be in an era without all the phones.
@@garyjones2561 It's less special now, less real, it's not an experiencie that can lead you to make a song like this one for example, while we get used to the new world where everything is easy our minds become lazier and everything is less unique and turns out to be the same over and over again not only the over-produced material objects that control our lives, people too, they become shadows of what they were doing the same everyday maybe even feeling disgusted about but conforming to it anyways, like life was just an excuse or like their body exist but their minds are gone Sorry, i get too reflective talking about these kind of stuff and you probably don't give a shit
My dad sang this for my mom with guitar on her birthday. I'm in tears everytime I hear this song. Whenever you are in anger with your parents... remember this song. Cherish the time you have with your Mom and Dad as long as you can.
When I was an infant my mother used to play John Denver songs to stop me from crying because I had Colic and his music would make me stop crying for some reason. That was like 14 years ago... Now I sit on UA-cam and listen to old Johnny still. God Bless you all. Have a great evening or day !
This song makes me think of my grandfather who loved this song so dearly. He passed away last week on this day and listening to it makes me cry and feel close to him at the same time. A truly kind man. Rest in peace pap 1943-2021
Anyone who served in the military after this song came out can relate to this song in many ways and get a little choked up remembering their own experience. A classic for anyone leaving family and friends for an unknown time period. For all my fellow veterans and family, Thanking you for serving and God bless.
I think many think that because the US was so humiliated and decisively beaten in Vietnam the valour of the veterans is forgotten. They were brave and thrown into a war they didnt want. This song sums that up
Yes, I remember this song was playing on the radio and my dad singing along while parking his bags up for another tour in Vietnam. Damn how I missed him all my life.
It's crazy how I literally havent heard this song in many many years, but the lyrics flood back to me and its like I had just sang it just the other day. I love John Denver
My Grandma was 26, married with 3 kids, when John Denver released this song. Three years later my mom was born. My grandma would feel overwhelmed that the fact that she had 4 kids before the age of 30, and things could get stressful. She would use this song to relieve her stress. Forward 56 years (now 2020) when I play Leaving on a jet plan or country roads on my phone, she goes into this place of happiness, and knows all the lyrics, and so she sings her heart out. I feel when the time comes that my grandma leaves this earth, she will be singing this on her way up to the gates to meet the heavenly father. #JohnDenverLegend.
I love people who know how to sing when things get stressful. They are some of the best people. The parents and grandparents are really among those whose job it is to help relieve the kids' stresses the most too, and one of the very best ways to do that is by singing Congrats to your grandma 👵 because she obviously knows all the right things to do when times get tough and/or stressful. She sings. ^____^
How ironic that he left this world in a tragic plane crash that this is one of his most famous songs. He was a great man with an incredible voice. Right up there with the greatest singers of all time. RIP John Denver
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My dad played this for me when I was little before I went to sleep. John Denver and this song has a special place in my heart. He’s the reason I’m learning to play guitar and this the first song I learnt. I hope to one day play it to my kids and show them the wonders of John Denver as my dad has done for me.
I met John Denver in the 1970,s at Sydney airport at the TAA terminal while he was on tour, spoke to him for about 15 mins (took some photos), with my girlfriend and sister, he was really gracious and pleasant. We found that we had a couple of things in common - same birthday and we had both studied Architecture (I was a 2nd year student) He was very popular in Australia at that time and all his shows were sold out. I took my Father to his Sydney Sports-ground show and it was excellent. A 3 hour concert, including The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, He found common ground with a lot of people through his music. His work for the environment will always be commended. RIP
+Retired Warrior ..November 11th is tomorrow. Honor to you and unit, and the others who made the sacrifice for nation. Theres no "Glory" though. Only the tragic respect for everyone from Bunker Hill, to Antietam, right through to Guadalcanal and Tarawa, Khe San, Faluja, and on goes the sad list of loss and courage................ps: My grand pa was in a Belgian trench in 1917. He saw what the big rats do. He saw humans sucked into the mud. He made it though. Mortar wound in the ankle, bullet wound under the left ear. But it was a different world. A shred of decency existed. They really did sing with Germans at Christmas in some places. But then officers would chase everyone back to theyre positions. But at least there was that brief light of humanity.
I was randomly listening to music, then my dad suddenly heard this and told me that when the first time he rode an airplane, this is the song that is being played. He sang this for me after that. Now, this song is my favorite♥️
planarian19: Denver's father was an official in the Aeronautic and his son had his same passion for flying private planes - John crashed his Cessna maybe cos it ran out of fuel due to his own negligence... some claim he was drunk at the time - others claim it was suicide - he didn't leave on a jet plane
My parents gifted me this particular album on my twelfth birthday. I distinctly remember that this song was the first one on the first CD (there were two discs).As a pilot now, I still get the goosebumps when this track comes on. Way back in '97 as a four year old child, I recall receiving the news of his death on the news ticker. But I didn't know who he was and what the world lost on that fateful day. Mr. Denver, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. This song has seen me through toughest of times, in both grief and joy. I wish you were here. With Love from India.
His music makes me cry. It's so pure, so beautiful, so simple, yet intricate. It reminds me of when I was a teenager, and of my mom. It was something good we could share.
His music has the same effect on me becausewhen I would go to my grandparents house my grandfather would always play country and western on the radio. He passed away in 2015 I was 11 at the time and John Denver songs and the song “in the shadow of the valley” remind me of him I miss him so much
This comment is dedicated to all of those who are leaving on a jet plane, pursuing their goals and leaving their loved ones. We love the adventure but we also hate to go.
He has the sweetest voice, I grew up with mum and dad listening to his beautiful songs, thanks for the most fantastic memories, you really are a total legend. God bless you, you will always be in my heart..xxx...
My dad sang this song whenever we would go on holiday, it held a special place in my heart then. Now to have him pass it holds a whole new meaning. I miss him more than even John Denver’s words could show.
One of my mother favourite songs. I said to myself, when my mother passed away, no more tears for me, but everytime I heard this song, the tears keep coming back.
My dad used to sing this all the time. He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly a few days ago. I love you dad, so much. I miss you already so much that it hurts. ❤ rest in heaven daddy, I'll see you again someday.
Im' so sorry. It's been over forty years since my dear daddy died, and I still feel him with me, strongly, at times, especially when my daughter, whom he never met is visiting me.
I was lucky enough to have a dad who showed me all the good songs of the 50s 60s and 70s and 80s he was born in 1967 I’m 17 now and he’s still showing me all this good music a lot of kids are not lucky enough to have a appreciation for old music and it saddens me
I found my love for John Denver when I was 12 1/2 back in 2006. I'm so happy he's become more recognized now because of that movie. That movie came out a few weeks before the 20th anniversary of his death, which I think made it a little more special. I find it amusing how my friends used to hate on my taste in music simply because it was old, but now they enjoy it because it's become popular in movies nowadays.
I am 14 years old. It's 2020. During the pandemic. I was having a horribly depressing time, what with online school and lack of communication with people other than my family. Lying on my bed, I was thinking of a thousand things when I unconsciously started humming this song so I searched it up. I don't know why but I knew every single lyrics of this song. I know about John Denver and I've heard his songs before but to be honest I don't remember why exactly I know about him, considering this dude was popular about 50 years ago and I am a Gen Z kid. However, when I started listening to this song tonight, I felt myself tearing up because it was so beautiful and I felt like I was trying to remember some lost memory from the past, from my childhood but I just couldn't remember what memory exactly led me to thinking of this song... I know no one is probably going to read this, considering no one's ever liked my comment before but just felt like mentioning anyways. Edit: Thank you everyone for all the beautiful replies.... and the likes! OH MY GOODNESS! Never have I ever thought i'd get 99 likes in a comment... LIKE EVER... Edit 2: ASDFFGHJJDKSDK!!!! you guys are the sweetest ppl ever!
*I greatly enjoy John Denver's songs and he only got better as he got older. His song, "Calypso" is one of my favorites. All that said, Denver's song, "Leaving On A Jet Plane" brings back the 1960's as few songs of that era can. Even so, and I must confess, Mary Travers rendition of this song (lead singer for "Peter, Paul, & Mary") is the quintessential version. She imbues it with the pathos that Denver clearly intended, but that only her voice could evoke. That said, thank you, John, for writing this. You wrote it from the heart, and it shows.*
My son sang this song as part of his end of year school performance in 2019, at the International school of Brunei, Borneo, before flying 'home' to New Zealand after 2 amazing years with his buddies from all over the world. My wife and I were doing our best to 'keep it together'...
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE lyrics All my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm standin' here outside your door I hate to wake you up to say goodbye But the dawn is breakin' It's early morn The taxi's waitin' He's blowin' his horn Already I'm so lonesome I could die So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you'll wait for me Hold me like you'll never let me go 'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go There's so many times I've let you down So many times I've played around I tell you now, they don't mean a thing Ev'ry place I go, I'll think of you Ev'ry song I sing, I'll sing for you When I come back, I'll bring your wedding ring So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you'll wait for me Hold me like you'll never let me go 'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go Now the time has come to leave you One more time Let me kiss you Then close your eyes I'll be on my way Dream about the days to come When I won't have to leave alone About the times, I won't have to say Oh, kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you'll wait for me Hold me like you'll never let me go 'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go But, I'm leavin' on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go
Seeing all the Takamori shippers raiding the comment section right now is so weirdly heartwarming for me. I grew up with John Denver music my whole life, and seeing all the Hololive people come in here giving old John some much deserved appreciation is like seeing an intersection between my childhood and my adulthood. Here's hoping that the phoenix's heartfelt cover of this song will lead at least a few people to discovering even more music from Denver.
No, I'm just a Mori addict. This became apparent when she did a Japanese stream this morning. Me, not knowing a substantial amount of the language, decided to watch it anyways. ... I understood three words. Rain, tanoshi and flower.
Appreciate the kind response. A lot of the time when such a raid happens, people who knew of the song prior will tell the newcomers to shove off and stop spamming instead
Your grandmother has great taste...as my grandmother did...I'm a grandma now but will never forget this song when I first heard it so many years ago....bless you..I was 16 then..and I did go and left everything behind ...now all I want is to go back home... much love and respect to the great John Denver who inspired me with his music
Hello 👋 Pauline. How are you doing ? Hope you are fine. I'm Mark Clifford and from Denver Colorado, where are you from? You seem like a real country girl
It was 1981, I was 9 & my sister had just died giving birth to her third child. Her little girls sang me this song before they moved out of my room to never see them again until 15 yrs. Later. I will never forget that day under the big oak tree. We hugged & cried.
The angel's took him home after his time with us had expired. Such a gifted song writer and man. Still do deeply missed. However, until his songs fade with time he remains immortal.
My mom sang this to me before I moved out for the first time and she just passed this March. I love this song but I cannot get through it without crying anymore.
Crazy. I just got caught in my head...kind of like when my grandma would hug me. There’s nothing like this mans music. When kindness is deep like a river.
I've heard this a million times or so, growing up in the 60's... and today it popped into my head out of the past. Suddenly my brain made the connection to soldiers going off to all the wars of mankind... they don't know when, or whether, they will be back... heartbreaking.
I was in my early 20s when this song first came out . My fiancee was leaving for Vietnam. We decided to wait for marriage until he returned. He did come home and this has been our song for 52 years now.
borgwir I guess that may be one way to put it, but I don't really consider it just hippie music. I wasn't around (not even close) when the hippie age was in its prime, so I couldn't say, but I really do like his music!
My grandma would sing this song to me to get me to sleep, even now, at 16, when I stay at her house she’ll still sit with me and sing to me while I fall asleep. She’s the most kind and sweet woman I know.. love her more than anything ❤️❤️
Edit Aug 2022- my grandma passed away September 9th 2021. What I wouldn’t give to hear her sweet voice sing this to me again. I miss her so much everyday. She was my rock🤍
Kayla IsWeird same with me but I live with my grandma and I’m 13 and she has been singing it to me all my life
I love these comments honestly it melts my heart
Adorable, love hearing stories like that👍
Such a sweet story!!
Keep cherishing those moments with your Grandma and thank you for sharing your feelings and love. In todays world of anger violence hatred etc, its so refreshing to hear of love.
he may have left on a jet plane, but listening to his music on country roads take you home every time.
John denver
I wonder how many people really understood the humour in this comment 🤣🔥
I understood what you meant. In the same token you got to give them credit for all there Love and sharing with us.
@@dawnajarmstrong37 ..
truee
Rip John Denver. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
van gogh wants to know your location
and more beautiful than the spoken word can tell.
His music was poetry, and his music leaves imprints upon the hearts of country boys like him. Rest in peace John
he is alive yes
Leaves an impression even on non country folks.
@@billydick9962 Amen to that 😂
And a few city girls . . ❤️
My grandson is 12 years old I got him to listen to some of Johns music recently and now a year later he was wearing some headphones and guess what. Listening to John Denver so proud
This feels so good to hear. I love it when kids of our generation listen to the songs of the golden ages. :)
Kids these days, they don’t know the real music us q’thoomers listened to. The Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago was an absolute *banger*.
@@eloisanzara237 I was there when it happened, quite beautiful. Zoomers will never know the best days of the big bang
There's lot of good music from the videogame Fallout 4
@@AIexxo lol no the game is trash, music is mediocre at best, and the graphics are horrible.
John Denver never crashed. He is just still continuing to fly forever in the blue sky.
When my sister's and I were 2,3, and 5 we sang this in the back seat of my dad's car. No seatbelts so it's a crazy memory. Dad would whistle and mom would sing to us. The best of times. Loved the sixties!
It# 1965 again and I think of Tony when I listen to this song, who called me to ask if I wanted to go to the NY Port Authority to see him off to Duluth and say goodby. He said he'd pick me up at 5 but he never came. I had him paged at the PA but he never answered. We had a short but wonderful romance and I think of him a lot. I suppose he got sent to Nam...he never came back...never saw him again...but I will always remember him.
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That's a good memory. I like it. Thanks for sharing it with us. ^____^
Lovely memory
Me, too! Luv the Sixties!! ✌ ☮ 🕊
A man who had music inside the way a caterpillar has a butterfly. The beauty of his soul radiates brightening our troubled times
It's totally true. Great words, Green Wave
"It's ok to be sad, we will always be here"
Here... HERE?! Abe XD yarr hmmmm here....
*10 year later*
BRO NOT EVEN IN COLLAGE WHERE IS HERE
anyway here a like
@@larrapappu3064 i mean its what Calli said to Kiara when she was crying
that's right peko
Glory to takamori
@@dmzvrs Glory to takamori
september 06, 1965 left on a jet plane left my wife and son, going to nam, this songs says it all for me thankfully I got back home
Thank you.
Welcome home.
@@pakojeimebredaupisem if your trying to get attention this is not the way to do it buddy
@@bigshotr6980 Ne,samo iznosim svoje misljenje...
John Garrison you’re very much appreciated
My beloved John...thanks to him I learnt my English, poetry, love for the Sacred Nature....I wish I could meet a man like him in my life...he left on a jet plane for Heaven....god bless you John..your splendid soul is working for a better world...❤
Well said... lovely 🌹
You sound like an amazing person!
Everyone who reads this, we don't know each other and probably never will but I wish you all the best in life and all the luck in the world 💖
Wish you all the best also, take care
You too
You too, that's so kind! And necessary in today's world.
Thank you too buddy
I remember when my grandma heard this, It made me cry about thinking this song
My grandma died last night and This song will make me think about her 😭
Rip Grandma 1944-2020
I’m so sorry to hear that
Im sorry to hear that
Rip
Sorry for your loss.
OMG bro I feel for you bro it just makes me cry reading the comments and you man I feal bad for and I feel you rip your Nana and I hope you had a good time with her wen she was thare cas I say I would love to have my grandpa back
My momma used to sing me this almost every night as a kid, would put me right to sleep. God Bless you, John! RIP
I miss John. May he be filled with infinite love and bliss.
kathleen sutherland me too !!!
He was so full he just floated up to heaven.
I've heard this song for the 1st time by Peter, Paul & Mary, I was 16-17. I'm 70, still get goosebumps when I play it.
The coincidence of this song's lyrics and his death are too much too handle.
Yepp bro
Exactly. Not a coincidence.
Everything happens for a reason- Klaus Baudelaire 2018
Well technically he didn’t die from a jet plane
yes tooo much to handle-
@@charin951 Doesn't matter. Only the fact that he died in plane crash is enough to break all our hearts.
RIP Sir, we are still listening to you. In this modern era this is my most favourite song TOO
I'm wondering the feeling at 70's when communication was not as vast and easy like right now.
Leaving a girl... Always picturing each other without not knowing what they soulmate are doing, only have 1 or 2 photos on the pocket. Cant wait to see the smile.
What a nice era.
Priceless
I am sorry I know what you mean
Alfred Rocco What about this era where we *can* keep in contact? Isn't that nice?
@@garyjones2561 it still sucks though because some girls today are so glued to a phone they only want to text and never want to meet in person. In all honesty i would rather be in an era without all the phones.
@@garyjones2561
It's less special now, less real, it's not an experiencie that can lead you to make a song like this one for example, while we get used to the new world where everything is easy our minds become lazier and everything is less unique and turns out to be the same over and over again not only the over-produced material objects that control our lives, people too, they become shadows of what they were doing the same everyday maybe even feeling disgusted about but conforming to it anyways, like life was just an excuse or like their body exist but their minds are gone
Sorry, i get too reflective talking about these kind of stuff and you probably don't give a shit
My dad sang this for my mom with guitar on her birthday. I'm in tears everytime I hear this song.
Whenever you are in anger with your parents... remember this song. Cherish the time you have with your Mom and Dad as long as you can.
I felt this. My dad sang this with guitar when i was growing up. Every time I hear this it breaks me down as well.
When I was an infant my mother used to play John Denver songs to stop me from crying because I had Colic and his music would make me stop crying for some reason.
That was like 14 years ago...
Now I sit on UA-cam and listen to old Johnny still.
God Bless you all. Have a great evening or day !
+curtis gilford me it was joe nichols what's a gotta do lol
Thank you!
TheCrew Vlogs This almost made me cry. Know you’ll probably never see it since this comment is two years old lol
what a lovely story! I'd hope to sing John Denver songs when I have children.
I know this might be two years late... But I wish you the same friend!
This song makes me think of my grandfather who loved this song so dearly. He passed away last week on this day and listening to it makes me cry and feel close to him at the same time. A truly kind man.
Rest in peace pap
1943-2021
A grandmother leaves a lifelong impression
So sorry for your lost 😔
Wish you all the best
❤️✌🏽
It means a lot to me also. For you, during this hard time, I am PRAYing! ... 🙏🙏🙏
A lot 😅d I am not at the house yet but I'm going to
Anyone who served in the military after this song came out can relate to this song in many ways and get a little choked up remembering their own experience. A classic for anyone leaving family and friends for an unknown time period. For all my fellow veterans and family, Thanking you for serving and God bless.
Leonardo Perez Absolutely.
Leonardo Perez...I salute you...thank you!
No thank you sir! From Canada we appreciate every single one of you, whether you're from the US or Canada, doesn't matter.
I think many think that because the US was so humiliated and decisively beaten in Vietnam the valour of the veterans is forgotten. They were brave and thrown into a war they didnt want. This song sums that up
Yes, I remember this song was playing on the radio and my dad singing along while parking his bags up for another tour in Vietnam. Damn how I missed him all my life.
God Bless his Soul, John’s voice still touches our hearts.
It's crazy how I literally havent heard this song in many many years, but the lyrics flood back to me and its like I had just sang it just the other day.
I love John Denver
I just love this guy's voice! He is missed!
My Grandma was 26, married with 3 kids, when John Denver released this song. Three years later my mom was born. My grandma would feel overwhelmed that the fact that she had 4 kids before the age of 30, and things could get stressful. She would use this song to relieve her stress. Forward 56 years (now 2020) when I play Leaving on a jet plan or country roads on my phone, she goes into this place of happiness, and knows all the lyrics, and so she sings her heart out. I feel when the time comes that my grandma leaves this earth, she will be singing this on her way up to the gates to meet the heavenly father. #JohnDenverLegend.
That is beautiful and beautifully told too. ❤ Thank you for sharing your story with us. ^____^
I love people who know how to sing when things get stressful. They are some of the best people.
The parents and grandparents are really among those whose job it is to help relieve the kids' stresses the most too, and one of the very best ways to do that is by singing
Congrats to your grandma 👵 because she obviously knows all the right things to do when times get tough and/or stressful. She sings. ^____^
Hi :p
I'll try to make this short. I was worth my grandparents care God bless you
John Denver was an angel on the planet. No words touched hearts like the way he sang. Love.
Such a clear, pure voice. He made folk music cool again! We need another John Denver these days.
left on a jet plane... destination : heaven.
+Robert brown i would prob be on the downward one. :-(
If Heaven is up then heaven is every direction because the Earth is a spheroid.
+David Friggy unless you crash
not a jet plane, a propeller plane
yeah that's funny sure yep
How ironic that he left this world in a tragic plane crash that this is one of his most famous songs. He was a great man with an incredible voice. Right up there with the greatest singers of all time. RIP John Denver
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gary lyons Death is only a tragedy if you make it so
Really, then it is surely a loss
The John Denver Lives inside of us Heart because your sons is still inspirabled all folks since baby Boomers to Silvers and much more...
Learned to appreciate this amazing singer more as I've got older... wonderful music
My dad played this for me when I was little before I went to sleep. John Denver and this song has a special place in my heart. He’s the reason I’m learning to play guitar and this the first song I learnt. I hope to one day play it to my kids and show them the wonders of John Denver as my dad has done for me.
I LOVE THIS
Every single song of John Denver is so clear, so beautiful. Miss this man. Hopefully one day I'll be driving and find my self on country roads
Thank the heavens for sharing John Denver with us 🕊 The world is a better place with his eternal music 🌈
Viel zu früh gegangen. Bin total emotional bei seiner Musik und könnte immer wieder in Tränen ausbrechen.
I met John Denver in the 1970,s at Sydney airport at the TAA terminal while he was on tour, spoke to him for about 15 mins (took some photos), with my girlfriend and sister, he was really gracious and pleasant. We found that we had a couple of things in common - same birthday and we had both studied Architecture (I was a 2nd year student) He was very popular in Australia at that time and all his shows were sold out. I took my Father to his Sydney Sports-ground show and it was excellent. A 3 hour concert, including The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, He found common ground with a lot of people through his music. His work for the environment will always be commended. RIP
Amazing!
Man, the rest of us youngins won't get the chance to meet him in person now...
This is 2024... And I'm still loving this
Me too. Grew up when this song aired.
@@jacquelinecaulfield8346 me too. Always loved his music!!!
❤😂😂🎉I was that girl
First kiss in Arkansas best summer for any young girls life here
@@ElizabethMarshall-fl1xx ewwwwwwww 😂
@@ekeemmanuel8378 Then why are you listening ewwwww 😂
This man used to write poetry over guitar strings. Like no one else could.
This was a song my mum used to sing to me every night to help me fall asleep as a child, it almost brought me to tears hearing it.
I swear my mom did the same exact thing when I was really young. Brings back the feels
A song the narrates his departure from this world, decades before it happened
Our unit sung this song as we were on the tarmac in Ft. Hood back in 2005, I was still a kid at 32 and wore my feelings on my sleeve then.
+Retired Warrior ..November 11th is tomorrow. Honor to you and unit, and the others who made the sacrifice for nation. Theres no "Glory" though. Only the tragic respect for everyone from Bunker Hill, to Antietam, right through to Guadalcanal and Tarawa, Khe San, Faluja, and on goes the sad list of loss and courage................ps: My grand pa was in a Belgian trench in 1917. He saw what the big rats do. He saw humans sucked into the mud. He made it though. Mortar wound in the ankle, bullet wound under the left ear. But it was a different world. A shred of decency existed. They really did sing with Germans at Christmas in some places. But then officers would chase everyone back to theyre positions. But at least there was that brief light of humanity.
+Retired You guys are heroes!
Thanks for your service in joining in 2018
I was randomly listening to music, then my dad suddenly heard this and told me that when the first time he rode an airplane, this is the song that is being played. He sang this for me after that. Now, this song is my favorite♥️
the music belongs to us
John belongs to the stars
One of my favorite John Denver songs.
Pain.
My mom passed away 11 years ago. She would sing this all the time. Brings me to tears all the time, but now I smile up at her and sing and cry🥺❤️💙
Hello 👋 Jay. How are you doing ? Hope you are fine. I'm Mark Clifford and from Denver Colorado, where are you from? You seem like a real country girl
He left too early such a talent
If only he had taken a country road instead of leaving on a jet plane he might still be with us ;,,,,(
So true!
Yeah.. I know hah
He made a very hard choice
Yeah ...
Maren Denison think he had done it all...died in a plane he built.
I'm just here because I'm kinda old and I still love his songs. To me they're timeless🙂❤
He’s a good artist.. how are you doing?
Сегодня я впервые услышал эту прекрасную песню😢
John was a brilliant singer! Much missed.
This song is harder when you just lost someone, and knowing John Denver died in a plane crash.
really leaving on a jet plane...
planarian19: Denver's father was an official in the Aeronautic and his son had his same passion for flying private planes - John crashed his Cessna maybe cos it ran out of fuel due to his own negligence... some claim he was drunk at the time - others claim it was suicide - he didn't leave on a jet plane
@@susanmargaretwills6432 well YES, and theres a BIG difference between those, but he still died on a plane
Another great mind of 20th century went down in a plane too, Antoine de Saint-Exupery... May they rest in peace.
It's very spooky.
@@susanmargaretwills6432 wasn't a Cessna
My parents gifted me this particular album on my twelfth birthday. I distinctly remember that this song was the first one on the first CD (there were two discs).As a pilot now, I still get the goosebumps when this track comes on.
Way back in '97 as a four year old child, I recall receiving the news of his death on the news ticker. But I didn't know who he was and what the world lost on that fateful day.
Mr. Denver, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. This song has seen me through toughest of times, in both grief and joy. I wish you were here.
With Love from India.
Wow that's really nice 😊👍
His music makes me cry. It's so pure, so beautiful, so simple, yet intricate. It reminds me of when I was a teenager, and of my mom. It was something good we could share.
Oh wow! That must have been an amazing feeling for you. How awesome.
LOL, how funny. Sounds like he trusted you, and needed someone to talk to.
I think you are a happy child in your chilhood
Roberta Henry 😞
His music has the same effect on me becausewhen I would go to my grandparents house my grandfather would always play country and western on the radio. He passed away in 2015 I was 11 at the time and John Denver songs and the song “in the shadow of the valley” remind me of him
I miss him so much
Thanks again for bringing me this beautiful song.
2019 folks i know you're there. RIP the legend John Denver
Erik Hall yes!
Abso-fuckinglutely
yup
First concert I ever went to , my dad brought me whom just passed away August 12th, awesome concert! Back in 1973
A Legend he is indeed.
my mom used to sing this song before she left my dad still cant listen to this without crying my eyes out its been 20 years
Always cry when I'm trying to sing along with this song.
I am thankful that I got to listen to this beautiful song at this point in my life. Thank you, the powers that be.
Amazing how his music just reaches in and touches your heart soul mind. Priceless👍
My grandfather loved this song so I listen to this to remember him by
This comment is dedicated to all of those who are leaving on a jet plane, pursuing their goals and leaving their loved ones. We love the adventure but we also hate to go.
“ I don’t when I’ll be back again…” It was so meaningful! He’s always in our hearts. Forever loved.🙏❤️🙏
Such a sweet and pure soul. Too good for this world. I hope he is in a better place.
He has the sweetest voice, I grew up with mum and dad listening to his beautiful songs, thanks for the most fantastic memories, you really are a total legend. God bless you, you will always be in my heart..xxx...
My dad sang this song whenever we would go on holiday, it held a special place in my heart then. Now to have him pass it holds a whole new meaning. I miss him more than even John Denver’s words could show.
When I hear his voice I feel like he has been my friend since long time ago. I feel him very close although I never saw him in concert.
is this jesss?
One of my mother favourite songs. I said to myself, when my mother passed away, no more tears for me, but everytime I heard this song, the tears keep coming back.
My dad used to sing this all the time.
He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly a few days ago.
I love you dad, so much. I miss you already so much that it hurts.
❤ rest in heaven daddy, I'll see you again someday.
I'm so sorry.
Live your future days like Dad was with you, cause he is watching over you, cause love never dies. God speed.
sorry. cherish the good memories
So sorry for your Loss .
Im' so sorry. It's been over forty years since my dear daddy died, and I still feel him with me, strongly, at times, especially when my daughter, whom he never met is visiting me.
"tell me that you will wait for me"
forever legend
he is flying he’s plane to heaven
He has already landed
Maybe the journey is heaven
His*
*Reserved spot in heaven
Sorry. Planes can’t escape gravity, much less get to heaven.
I was lucky enough to have a dad who showed me all the good songs of the 50s 60s and 70s and 80s he was born in 1967 I’m 17 now and he’s still showing me all this good music a lot of kids are not lucky enough to have a appreciation for old music and it saddens me
RIP John.... and thank you.
This song is so beautiful. I am rendered to a sobbing mess by then end. Each and every time. Just beautiful.
It is about hope and our capacity to usher changes
I love change, to be honest. Growing and learning. I've never known what it is to be stagnant, thankfully. But this song.......Tears. Me...Up...
I'm doing the same right now.
stecklein7 I thought I was the only one who cry when I hear John Denver songs
stecklein7 this song really brings me to tears too 😢
Merlin from the Kingsman is what brought me to John Denver.
I realized how many songs I like are by him.
Now I’m staying here.
As a soldier leaving for a far flung land this song is so poignant God bless John denver
Rosehip Of St. Gloriana hey!!me either!!haha
I found my love for John Denver when I was 12 1/2 back in 2006. I'm so happy he's become more recognized now because of that movie. That movie came out a few weeks before the 20th anniversary of his death, which I think made it a little more special.
I find it amusing how my friends used to hate on my taste in music simply because it was old, but now they enjoy it because it's become popular in movies nowadays.
Rosehip Of St. Gloriana same country roads
Ich liebe das Lied du bist ein prima Sänger👍♥️
RIP ! John ..I grow with these beautiful songs..
He is maybe gone but he is still In our hearts forever and ever.
I am 14 years old. It's 2020. During the pandemic. I was having a horribly depressing time, what with online school and lack of communication with people other than my family. Lying on my bed, I was thinking of a thousand things when I unconsciously started humming this song so I searched it up. I don't know why but I knew every single lyrics of this song. I know about John Denver and I've heard his songs before but to be honest I don't remember why exactly I know about him, considering this dude was popular about 50 years ago and I am a Gen Z kid. However, when I started listening to this song tonight, I felt myself tearing up because it was so beautiful and I felt like I was trying to remember some lost memory from the past, from my childhood but I just couldn't remember what memory exactly led me to thinking of this song...
I know no one is probably going to read this, considering no one's ever liked my comment before but just felt like mentioning anyways.
Edit: Thank you everyone for all the beautiful replies.... and the likes! OH MY GOODNESS! Never have I ever thought i'd get 99 likes in a comment... LIKE EVER...
Edit 2: ASDFFGHJJDKSDK!!!! you guys are the sweetest ppl ever!
I'm 17 and I completely get you ... it's like memories of some past I've forgotten
I had to screenshot this i go through this every morning
Especially songs i never really realized i had in my mental memory
Don't i just click like. You got a like from me.
we're the same bro
Jon, your songs brings me a lot of sweet memories. God bless you
*I greatly enjoy John Denver's songs and he only got better as he got older. His song, "Calypso" is one of my favorites. All that said, Denver's song, "Leaving On A Jet Plane" brings back the 1960's as few songs of that era can. Even so, and I must confess, Mary Travers rendition of this song (lead singer for "Peter, Paul, & Mary") is the quintessential version. She imbues it with the pathos that Denver clearly intended, but that only her voice could evoke. That said, thank you, John, for writing this. You wrote it from the heart, and it shows.*
this song will last a life time and as long as it lives john will--miss you
I love john Denver's music... great talent
He’s music gives me a lot of memories.. how are you doing Marge?
Every time i leave my home while joining the vessel for my job in merchant Navy.. this song always rings in my brains..
beauty ❤️❤️
My son sang this song as part of his end of year school performance in 2019, at the International school of Brunei, Borneo, before flying 'home' to New Zealand after 2 amazing years with his buddies from all over the world.
My wife and I were doing our best to 'keep it together'...
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE lyrics
All my bags are packed
I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin'
It's early morn
The taxi's waitin'
He's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome
I could die
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
There's so many times I've let you down
So many times I've played around
I tell you now, they don't mean a thing
Ev'ry place I go, I'll think of you
Ev'ry song I sing, I'll sing for you
When I come back, I'll bring your wedding ring
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Now the time has come to leave you
One more time
Let me kiss you
Then close your eyes
I'll be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I won't have to leave alone
About the times, I won't have to say
Oh, kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
But, I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
This copy and paste didnt deserve the like
That song make me cry the occasion
this comment is literally in the description
Brilliantly worded and decently penned
Kjybbb
Seeing all the Takamori shippers raiding the comment section right now is so weirdly heartwarming for me. I grew up with John Denver music my whole life, and seeing all the Hololive people come in here giving old John some much deserved appreciation is like seeing an intersection between my childhood and my adulthood. Here's hoping that the phoenix's heartfelt cover of this song will lead at least a few people to discovering even more music from Denver.
Pretty sure the vtuber crowd did already pay John plenty of respect given the Senzawa/Gura/Country Roads situation.
No, I'm just a Mori addict. This became apparent when she did a Japanese stream this morning. Me, not knowing a substantial amount of the language, decided to watch it anyways.
...
I understood three words. Rain, tanoshi and flower.
Appreciate the kind response. A lot of the time when such a raid happens, people who knew of the song prior will tell the newcomers to shove off and stop spamming instead
im the same way growing up in wv listening to john denver and then to see the takamori concert and the impact of this song was just too great
What are you guys talking about?
I played this at my mom's funeral. If it was about a son leaving his mother this would say a lot of stuff I wish I was able to.
Matt's Place I’m so sorry for your loss.....
Love his songs
Matt what a great guy and son you must be x
I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm also here because my father already passed away yesterday morning. ☹️
@@iramariahcruzferrer9901 sorry to hear that. I wish you the best 🙏 Thia song is a very good song. Love listening to it.
Your grandmother has great taste...as my grandmother did...I'm a grandma now but will never forget this song when I first heard it so many years ago....bless you..I was 16 then..and I did go and left everything behind ...now all I want is to go back home... much love and respect to the great John Denver who inspired me with his music
Hello 👋 Pauline. How are you doing ? Hope you are fine. I'm Mark Clifford and from Denver Colorado, where are you from? You seem like a real country girl
It was 1981, I was 9 & my sister had just died giving birth to her third child. Her little girls sang me this song before they moved out of my room to never see them again until 15 yrs. Later. I will never forget that day under the big oak tree. We hugged & cried.
i am sorry to hear, of this family hurt - its amazing, how music, can bring us to the past - sometimes happy , sometimes sad
God Bless
Why 15 years? I need some closer here!
John Denver's songs are timeless marvels
Every song will be loved 100 years from now
RiP John Denver
We miss you
The angel's took him home after his time with us had expired. Such a gifted song writer and man. Still do deeply missed. However, until his songs fade with time he remains immortal.
John you are a true legend RIP.
+Jasper Van Der Blint i like song
The art of the simple. An anthem to separation and love that has lasted for 54 years. Total respects.
KFBeats on life support right now
This is one ☝🏾 of the songs that’s pops up in my head 😎💭 when it’s time to travel ✈️ 🌍
yes
My mom sang this to me before I moved out for the first time and she just passed this March. I love this song but I cannot get through it without crying anymore.
Sorry for your loss
One of the greatest songs ever made. John Denver is a national treasure.
international
Mama Cass wrote it 😢
Love the kerchief around his neck
Crazy. I just got caught in my head...kind of like when my grandma would hug me.
There’s nothing like this mans music.
When kindness is deep like a river.
I've heard this a million times or so, growing up in the 60's... and today it popped into my head out of the past. Suddenly my brain made the connection to soldiers going off to all the wars of mankind... they don't know when, or whether, they will be back... heartbreaking.
You got if !! I tear up when I hear it !! Subsequently my wife lost her mind! I often think these war years played a part!!
I was in my early 20s when this song first came out . My fiancee was leaving for Vietnam. We decided to wait for marriage until he returned. He did come home and this has been our song for 52 years now.
My children remember their dad singing this all the time. we are having this for the last song at his funeral tomorrow xx 💔
HONESTLY have no idea how people dislike John Denver's music. I never personally knew John but I genuinely miss him.
+Joe N. me too
+Joe N. because every song sounds the same, and it is made for hippies with dreadlocks and joints...but i like this sound, i am no hippie tho :D
borgwir I guess that may be one way to put it, but I don't really consider it just hippie music. I wasn't around (not even close) when the hippie age was in its prime, so I couldn't say, but I really do like his music!
+borgwir so like the racist rappers? go away
+borgwir you know. why is your opinion more relevant than mine? we all like different things. go away unless you can respect EVERYONE.
Such a beautiful voice, love his songs❤.
His innocence is timeless.