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As he felt inadequate to the task, he asked local fiddler Dan Kelley to help him set the poem to music. His neighbors took a liking to the song, and soon its fame spread. As people passed through, the song traveled with them, and by the turn of the century, it was variously known as Home On The Range, My Colorado Home, and My Arizona Home..
Take Me Home, Country Roads almost never happened. The song's co-writer, Bill Danoff, said in an interview with NPR in 2011 that Denver had been in a car accident in Washington, D.C. the night he first heard the song and almost did not stop by Danoff's apartment, as planned.