It’s strange how certain songs can be refreshed or thrown back into the news for an odd reason. And that’s just what has happened with Thank God I’m A Country Boy by John Denver.

There are currently a lot of people searching for this song on the Web, and that’s purely because the pair from France used it to accompany their Ice Dancing routine at the Winter Olympics over the weekend. Those crazy French.

Thank God I’m A Country Boy is about as country as you can get, with fiddles and an up-tempo beat to accompany the singing. Here, John Denver sings the song written by John Martin Sommers way back in 1975.

Ice Dancing may be a ludicrous sport – it is, I checked – but this song is a classic that I’m glad has gained another airing because of it.