John Denver is singing about West Virginia, which is an amazing state in and of its own right. I'd argue that Virginia and West Virginia are two of the greatest states in our country (I'm actually willing to make that statement about every state except Illinois). True story, it separated from Virginia during the American Civil War when a bunch of its counties looked at the secessionists and were all like "Uh. No thank you. That doesn't look like fun." As for Virginia itself, I don't know too much about it other than it was one of the original American Colonies and was named after the Virgin Queen (Why they didn't name it after her actual name, I don't know). It's an Appalachian state with beautiful forested countryside and a few parks preserving it. Anybody I've ever talked to that has anything to say about it though have all said very nice things, so I'm thinking of visiting it someday.