Annie's Song
John Denver - Back Home Again
About the Song
“Annie’s Song” is an ode to his then-wife Annie Martell Denver (who is featured on the album cover of Back Home Again), written while on a ski lift to the top of the Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado. Annie recalled the day Denver wrote the song: “It was written after John and I had gone through a pretty intense time together and things were pretty good for us. He left to go skiing and he got on the Ajax chair on Aspen mountain and the song just came to him. He skied down and came home and wrote it down… Initially it was a love song and it was given to me through him, and yet for him it became a bit like a prayer.”