“Annie’s Song” has received positive reviews from music critics. 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.” He left to go skiing, and he got on the Ajax chair on Aspen mountain, and the song just came to him. “It was written after John and I had gone through a pretty intense time together, and things were pretty good for us,” Annie said.
That song was the embodiment of the love I felt at that time.”Īnnie has also recalled the day Denver wrote the song. All of the pictures merged, and I was left with Annie. “All of these things filled up my senses, and when I said this to myself, unbidden images came one after the other. “Suddenly, I’m hypersensitive to how beautiful everything is,” Denver wrote. During the ride, he reflected on all the joy he found in his marriage and his relief that they were back together. Come fill me again,” the song goes.ĭenver once revealed that “Annie’s Song” was one of the fastest songs he has ever written, composing it in about ten minutes while riding on a ski lift in Aspen, Colorado. Written by John Denver himself, “Annie’s Song” was an ode to Denver’s then-wife Annie Martell Denver after their first separation and the impending break up of their marriage in 1974. 1 on the Easy Listening chart as well as in the United Kingdom, while Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song in the United States, dominating that spot for two weeks in July 1974. “Annie’s Song” was released as a single from John Denver’s album Back Home Again.