Songs employing state names in their chorus
Frank Hamilton
on buddy..roll on." "I'll change the Green Lilacs to the Oregon Blue".
Though it's not mentioned in the song, "Acres of Clams" is a state
song of Washington.. "Kentucky Moonshiners". "State of Arkansas" is a
good old Vance Randolph one sung by Lee Hays. Then there's the
"Rolling Hills of New Jersey". (a recent song written in the folk
style). "The State of Illinois" has an illustrious history. "Hunters
of Kentucky". "Arkansas Traveler".
What did Ida hoe, boys what did Ida hoe?
What did Mary land?
Frank Hamilton who is now "Marching through Georgia".
KEEPTABZ
Tracy
"if you're on thin ice you may as well dance..."
KEEPTABZ
jody crotts
on the hills of Iowa and not thinking of her."What is love, where did it get
me? Whoever thought of love is no friend of mine. Iowa, Iowa..."
Linda J
The Tennessee Waltz
When It's Iris Time in Tennessee
Rocky Top
Sweet Home Alabama
My Home's in Alabama
Stars Fell on Alabama
Georgia on my Mind
Sweet Georgia Brown
Miss the Mississippi and You [well, it doesn't SAY river ]
Louisiana Woman/Mississippi Man
Blue Kentucky Girl
Take Me Home Country Roads
Waltz across Texas
If Heaven Ain't a Lot Like Texas
Shenandoah
Gary, Indiana [from the Music Man]
Oklahoma
California is a Mental State [Mac MacAnnally]
fun!
Linda
Tom Nelligan
> Do you want to count Lou and Peter Berryman's "Your State's Name
> Here"? :-)
Here's one more vote for that one. For the benefit of anyone who hasn't
heard it -- and if you haven't heard Lou and Peter's very funny music,
you should -- it's a generic, one-size-fits-all, state tourist bureau
type song full of the usual booster clichés, that invites each listener
to insert "your state's name" in each chorus. Wonderfully clever stuff.
--Tom Nelligan
Jon-Jon
My Idaho Home - from the movie Nashville
My Own Little Idaho- the Bodeans
Sunny California- Mary McCaslin
The California Zephyr-Jim Ringer
CphylThumb
"Matthew"....actually, its Amy Gallatin's (a Montanan transplanted here in
Connecticut) recording that I enjoy most. The chorus goes,
"Life was just the thing that he was raised on,
Love was just a way to live and die,
Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field,
Blue was just a Kansas summer sky."
Kinda purrrtty I thought. So how's this for a topic. Songs that employ a state
( I don't mean to be excluding our non-American contributors, so I guess we can
be somewhat flexible here ) name IN THEIR CHORUS (at least for now).
Pamela Beasley
Well, since you mentioned John Denver, let's start with a few more of
his:
Rocky Mountain High (Colorado)
Take Me Home, Country Roads ( W. Va.)
Wild Montana Skies
Simon van Dongen
This Land is Your Land, (Guthrie)
California, New York
Get Along Little Doggies, (Trad)
Wyoming
Mushwell Hillbillies, (The Kinks)
West Virginia, Oklahoma, Tennessee
Oregon Trail (Trad? Guthrie?)
Oregon
East Virginia (Trad?)
Virginia, North Carolina
Oh Suzannah (Foster?)
Alabama
My Old Kentucky Home (Randy Newman?)
Kentucky
Do-Re-Mi (Guthrie)
Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Kansas, Tennessee, California
OK, that's fifteen by my count. My head is now spinning with stuff
where states aren't mentioned as states (The Alabama's keel was laid /
Roll Alabama Roll), where they aren't in the chorus (Way down in Reno,
Nevada / Where romance blooms and then fades /// Counting the cars on
the New Jersey turnpike...) or wondering if anybody *ever* used Rhode
Island in a song. I've got a feeling the whole north-east will have to
be subsumed under Yankee Lady (even if tht was only Vermont, and not
in the chorus, drat!
Maybe more later
--
Simon van Dongen <sg...@xs4all.nl> Rotterdam, The Netherlands
'Bear couteous greetings to the accomplished musician outside our
gate, [...] and convince him - by means of a heavily-weighted club
if necessary - that the situation he has taken up is quite unworthy
of his incomparable efforts.' -Bramah, 'Kai Lung's Golden Hours'
Peter A. Cady
My Sweet Wyoming Home....Bill Staines, as I recall.
I Hate to Wake Up Sober in Nebraska....Free Hot Lunch, from the '70s,
obviously.
Iowa Stubborn and Gary, Indiana..._both_ from The Music Man, by Merideth
Willson
The Eyes of Texas are upon You.
T for Texas (Jimmy Rogers)
All the Gold in California (Gatlin Bros., quite a few years back); Here in
California (Kate Wolf)
Oklahoma (of course) - the R. & H. musical title song.
I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado; Rocky Mountain High - both John Denver.
They Chew Tobacco Thin In Kansas
I suppose you could just go to Digital Tradition and run a word search under
each State name, and get hundreds.
Peter.
CphylThumb wrote in message <19990518061531...@ng41.aol.com>...
Nigel Gatherer
> ...Songs that employ a state name IN THEIR CHORUS...
James Taylor: Carolina On My Mind (does that count? - There isn't a state
called Carolina)
Donovan: The Alamo (...So the rest of Texas will know...)
--
Nigel Gatherer, Edinburgh
gath...@argonet.co.uk
John Lupton
(CphylThumb) wrote:
>Found myself thinking of one of my favorite tunes yesterday, John Denver's
>"Matthew"....actually, its Amy Gallatin's (a Montanan transplanted here in
>Connecticut) recording that I enjoy most. The chorus goes,
>
> "Life was just the thing that he was raised on,
> Love was just a way to live and die,
> Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field,
> Blue was just a Kansas summer sky."
>
>Kinda purrrtty I thought. So how's this for a topic. Songs that employ a state
>( I don't mean to be excluding our non-American contributors, so I guess we can
>be somewhat flexible here ) name IN THEIR CHORUS (at least for now).
Well, let's see...
"Delaware", by Front Range (written by the band's lead singer, Bob Amos, a
Del. native)
"Connie's Got Connections In Connecticut", by the Hoosier Hot Shots (popular
act on WLS Barn Dance show from Chicago in the 30s and 40s)
"Blue Moon Of Kentucky" (Bill Monroe)
The chorus of the title song from Emmylou Harris' "Ballad Of Sally Rose" has
the line "Adios South Dakota, adios Sally Rose"
"Slow Train Through Georgia" (Norman Blake)
"Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee" (lots of people) or "Tennessee Stud" (ditto)
"Alabama Jubilee" (lots of people)
"My Sweet Wyoming Home" (Bill Staines)
"Blue Virginia Blues" (Bill Emerson & Pete Goble)
"My Old Love In New Mexico" (Holly Dunn)
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aerie
he "states" the name Colorado. Also, some others are about Alaska and say
that name as well.
Ann
Nigel Gatherer wrote in message <490417c6f...@argonet.co.uk>...
Nigel Gatherer
> ...I suppose you could just go to Digital Tradition and run a word
> search under each State name, and get hundreds.
Well, of course you could, but that would rather defeat the purpose of the
game, don't you think?
Al Christians
Groucho Marx.
"Pennsylvania Turnpike, I'm Stuck on You" (Recorded by Homer & Jethro)
"When It's Apple Blossom Time in Orange, New Jersey, We'll Make a Peach
of a Pair" (from a Danny Kaye movie)
What song about a state had a different state's name in the title?
(Title song from a movie, sung by Willie Nelson)
What Chrismas Carol has a state name in the chorus?
Al
Joel Polowin
> Kinda purrrtty I thought. So how's this for a topic. Songs that
> employ a state ( I don't mean to be excluding our non-American
> contributors, so I guess we can be somewhat flexible here ) name
> IN THEIR CHORUS (at least for now).
Do you want to count Lou and Peter Berryman's "Your State's Name
Here"? :-)
--
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jpolow...@cyberus.ca | If you can't be discrete, be continuous.
but delete "XYZZY" from address: a little magic to beat the spambots...
Stephen Suffet
>
> Found myself thinking of one of my favorite tunes yesterday, John
> Denver's "Matthew"....actually, its Amy Gallatin's (a Montanan
> transplanted here in Connecticut) recording that I enjoy most. The
> chorus goes,
>
> "Life was just the thing that he was raised on,
> Love was just a way to live and die,
> Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field,
> Blue was just a Kansas summer sky."
>
> a state ( I don't mean to be excluding our non-American contributors,
> so I guess we can be somewhat flexible here ) name IN THEIR CHORUS (at
> least for now).
Greetings:
There are _lots_ to choose from. Including...
"I'm Alabama Bound" (Anonymous)
"Do Re Mi" (Woody Guthrie. Chorus mentions Texas, Oklahoma,
Georgia, Kansas, Tennessee, and California!)
"Oklahoma Hils" (Woody & Jack Guthrie)
"Tennessee Stud" (Jimmie Driftwood)
"I've Got a Home Out in Utah" (Utah Phillips)
"Here's to the State of Mississippi" (Phil Ochs)
"Bracero" (Phil Ochs. Chorus mentions California.)
"Cotton Fields Away" (Leadbelly. Chorus mentions Louisiana.)
"I Heard that Lonesome Whistle Blow" (Hank Williams. Chorus
mentions Georgia.)
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (Bill Danoff & Taffy Nivert. Chorus
mentions West Virginia.)
"My Old Kentucky Home" (Stephen Foster)
"Plains of Old Nebrasky-o" (Eric Anderson)
"The Lily of Arkansas" (Anonymous)
"The Rolling Mills of New Jersey" (John Roberts & Tony Barrand)
Need I go on?
Regards,
Steve
amers
Ian and Sylvia's "Four Strong Winds" starts out "Guess I'll go out to
Alberta, weather's good there in the fall..."
The tradtitional song "Donkey Riding" starts out "Was you ever in Quebec"
Stateside, I'm surprised no one's brought up "Oh Susannah"
"Sidewalks of New York" is technically about the city, but New York's also
the name of the state....
-Amy
El McMeen
El McMeen
http://''www.elmcmeen.com
CphylThumb wrote in message <19990518061531...@ng41.aol.com>...
Gerry Myerson
wrote:
> Then there's the "Rolling Hills of New Jersey". (a recent song written in
> the folk style).
You're conflating Rolling Hills of the Border with the parody, Rolling Mills
of New Jersey.
The Austin Lounge Lizards have a song with a repeated line that goes
something like, "I'm going back to Dallas, Texas, to see if anything
could be worse than losing you."
In the interests of internationalism, I'll mention Lime Juice Tub, with
the chorus, Here we are in New South Wales/Shearing sheep as big as whales/
[nonsense syllables] rub-a-dub-dub/Send you home in a lime juice tub.
Also, Bound for South Australia, Moreton Bay (which has the chorus,
I've been a prisoner at Port Macquarie
At Norfolk Island and Emu Plains
At Castle Hill and at cursed Toongabbie
At all these settlements I've been in chains
But of all places of condemnation
And penal stations in New South Wales
To Moreton Bay I have found no equal
Excessive tyranny each day prevails),
Brisbane Ladies (chorus:
We'll rant and we'll roar like true Queensland drovers
We'll rant and we'll roar as onward we push
Until we get back to the Augathella station
It's flaming dry going through the old Queensland bush),
Sergeant Small (chorus:
I wish I was about twenty stone only seven feet tall
I'd go back to western Queensland and beat up Sergeant Small),
[there's a good source of Australian folk songs at
http://www.chepd.mq.edu.au/boomerang/songnet/songnet.html].
Gerry (living in my own private Idaho) Myerson
ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au
Karen Rodgers
Karen Rodgers
please remove -wx- from my email address to contact
me, thank you
Jeri Corlew
wrote:
> Need I go on?
Ayuh - find one with "New Hampshire" in it! :-)
__
Jeri Corlew
(Remove "XXX" to reply)
Matt Griffin, American
Tennessee" as parts of the Chorus. The Louvin Brothers did songs called
"Alabama" which they wrote themselves, and "Kentucky" credited to Carl
Davis on their "Tragic Songs of Life" album.
> Found myself thinking of one of my favorite tunes yesterday, John Denver's
> "Matthew"....actually, its Amy Gallatin's (a Montanan transplanted here in
> Connecticut) recording that I enjoy most. The chorus goes,
>
> "Life was just the thing that he was raised on,
> Love was just a way to live and die,
> Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field,
> Blue was just a Kansas summer sky."
>
> Kinda purrrtty I thought. So how's this for a topic. Songs that employ a state
> ( I don't mean to be excluding our non-American contributors, so I guess
we can
> be somewhat flexible here ) name IN THEIR CHORUS (at least for now).
--
Matt "equal love for all" Griffin
the real address is
did...@shore.net (don't ask)
"After my law boards, I became pretty much a lounge potato." --John Purchase
Valerie L. Magee
(Lightfoot).
amers wrote:
--
Visit my Gordon Lightfoot web site at:
Tony Hoffman
"Midnight Train to Georgia."
"All of My Exes Live in Texas"
"The Yellow Rose of Texas"
"California Dreamin' "
Richard L. Hess
Kate Wolf:
The Redtail Hawk
(In the Golden Rolling Hills of California)
Here In California
(Here in California the fruit hangs heavy on the vine)
In China Or A Woman's Heart
(Like the red dirt Oklahoma hills)
Mickey Newbury
San Francisco Mabel Joy
(Waycross Georgia Farm Boy)
(Sung by Joan Baez on "Blessed Are")
OK for those who said that Canadian Provinces are OK
Bob Bossin
Newfoundlanders
(We're Newfoundlanders not Canadians not by a damned sight yet)
(From the Stringband Album "Maple Leaf Dog"
with a cameo appearance by Stan Rogers)
Cheers,
Richard
On 18 May 1999 10:15:31 GMT, cphyl...@aol.com (CphylThumb) wrote:
>Found myself thinking of one of my favorite tunes yesterday, John Denver's
>"Matthew"....actually, its Amy Gallatin's (a Montanan transplanted here in
>Connecticut) recording that I enjoy most. The chorus goes,
>
>Kinda purrrtty I thought. So how's this for a topic. Songs that employ a state
>( I don't mean to be excluding our non-American contributors, so I guess we can
>be somewhat flexible here ) name IN THEIR CHORUS (at least for now).
Richard L. Hess rlh...@mindspring.com
Glendale, CA USA http://rlhess.home.mindspring.com/
Web page: folk and church music, photography, broadcast engineering, and more
Stephen Suffet
Greetings:
"The Old Granite State" by the Hutchinson Family Singers (19th
century abolitionist & temperance advocates) is about New Hampshire.
However, it mentions NH only as "The Old Granite State" and not by its
actual name. For many years it was the Hutchinson Family Singers'
signature song.
I heard Tony & Irene Saletan sing "The Old Granite State" many years
ago. I don't even know if they are still alive let alone performing.
There are other songs that actually mention New Hampshire, but none
that I can think of that do so in a chorus or refrain. I've even written
a New Hampshire song, copied below. I'll have to sing it for you in per-
son some time.
Regards,
Steve
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MAC FROM THE MOUNTAINS
by Stephen L. Suffet © 1999
His father's grandfather had come long ago,
To settle New Hampshire in the White Mountain snow,
And the place his was born was his family's own shack,
Though his name was MacKenzie, folks called him Mac.
As a young lad a trip he once took,
With his grandpa to Manchester just for a look,
It was crowded and noisy and filthy as Hell,
"That's the last time I'll go to the city," he'd tell.
When Mac finished school, grade school that is,
He settled and married that sweet-heart of his;
The children she bore him soon numbered five,
And I hear that four of them still are alive.
For twenty-eight years he worked on the farm,
Making his bread by his back and his arm,
'Til times they turned hard and his luck it went bad,
He lost that old farm and all the money he had.
I can't say for certain what became of his wife,
Some say she left him, some say she took her life,
But less than a year after Mac lost the farm,
He had moved down to Manchester to spin the old yarn.
Now for a man like MacKenzie, a Yank from the hills,
There can be no Hell worse than the Manchester mills;
Up in the mountains he touched not a drop,
When he got down to Manchester he drank without stop.
Oh, whiskey's the Devil and whiskey's a curse,
And Mac with his whiskey, he got worse and worse;
I sure hope that whiskey gave Mac some cheer,
'Cause with a bad liver he died the next year.
The welfare department took the little he saved,
To pay for his funeral in an unmarked grave;
Oh, Mac from the mountains, Mac from the snow,
Shall never go back to the mountains no more!
Katherine Rossner
> There are other songs that actually mention New Hampshire, but none
>that I can think of that do so in a chorus or refrain.
We sang a song about New Hampshire at summer camp. This is all that
remains in my memory years later, but now I'm not sure whether it was
the refrain or the whole (very short) song:
I want to wake up in the morning where the purple lilacs grow,
Where the sun comes peeping into where I'm sleeping
and the song-birds say "hello!"
I want to wander through the wildwoods where the gentle breezes blow,
And drift back to New Hampshire where the purple lilacs grow.
Katherine Rossner
--
You've got to sing like you don't need the money,
Love like you'll never get hurt.
You've got to dance like no one is watching,
It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
-- Susannah Clark
John Lupton
>Well there's "Hell In Texas". "I got a home in Sunny Tennesee so roll
>on buddy..roll on." "I'll change the Green Lilacs to the Oregon Blue".
>Though it's not mentioned in the song, "Acres of Clams" is a state
>song of Washington.. "Kentucky Moonshiners". "State of Arkansas" is a
>good old Vance Randolph one sung by Lee Hays. Then there's the
>"Rolling Hills of New Jersey". (a recent song written in the folk
>style). "The State of Illinois" has an illustrious history. "Hunters
>of Kentucky". "Arkansas Traveler".
>
>What did Ida hoe, boys what did Ida hoe?
>What did Mary land?
>
>Frank Hamilton who is now "Marching through Georgia".
Well now, that brings to mind Perry Como's old hit, "What Did Della Wear?":
What did Della wear, boys, what did Della wear?
..She wore a brand new jersey, she wore a brand new jersey
I don't remember the whole song, but one of the other lines was:
What did missus sip, boys, what did missus sip?
..she sipped a Minnie Soda, she sipped a Minnie Soda
I think there was also a "what did Tenna see?" chorus, and seems like I also
remember a line that went, "she called to say Hawaii" (ha-WYE-yuh)
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Mary Toporek
In South Carolina, with many tall pines;
I remember the old days when we used to climb
......
its calling me homeward, Hickory Wind
cry, sob, etc
On Tue, 18 May 1999 21:23:41 -0700, Jon-Jon <unic...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
Neeej
and my favorite:
Washington, Washington,
Come to the land of the rhododendron
We got the geoduck and the mountain range
The aplet and the cotlet and the hydroplane.
Al Christians
in that it does _not_ mention Colorado explicitly in the chorus.
Al
Frank Hamilton
When It's Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia
"Linda J" <linj...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>Chattanooga Choo Choo [Pennsylvania, Carolina, Tennessee]
>The Tennessee Waltz
>When It's Iris Time in Tennessee
>Rocky Top
>Sweet Home Alabama
>My Home's in Alabama
>Stars Fell on Alabama
>Georgia on my Mind
>Sweet Georgia Brown
>Miss the Mississippi and You [well, it doesn't SAY river ]
>Louisiana Woman/Mississippi Man
>Blue Kentucky Girl
>Take Me Home Country Roads
>Waltz across Texas
>If Heaven Ain't a Lot Like Texas
>Shenandoah
>Gary, Indiana [from the Music Man]
>Oklahoma
>California is a Mental State [Mac MacAnnally]
>fun!
>Linda
Frank Hamilton
"In The Oklahoma Hills where I was born".........................
jay cat
"alabama getaway"
"i know you rider"
"tennessee jed"
"estimated prophet"
"me and my uncle"
"moonlight in vermont"
Brad Morgan
who killed his straying wife and is now working in prison stamping out license
plates with this motto. In the end, he vows that next time he'll hold his temper
until he can get to a state with a motto more in tune with being imprisoned.
Stephen Suffet wrote:
> Jeri Corlew wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 18 May 1999 13:11:59 -0400, Stephen Suffet <Suf...@worldnet.att.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Need I go on?
> >
> > Ayuh - find one with "New Hampshire" in it! :-)
> > __
> > Jeri Corlew
> > (Remove "XXX" to reply)
>
> Greetings:
>
> "The Old Granite State" by the Hutchinson Family Singers (19th
> century abolitionist & temperance advocates) is about New Hampshire.
> However, it mentions NH only as "The Old Granite State" and not by its
> actual name. For many years it was the Hutchinson Family Singers'
> signature song.
>
> I heard Tony & Irene Saletan sing "The Old Granite State" many years
> ago. I don't even know if they are still alive let alone performing.
>
> There are other songs that actually mention New Hampshire, but none
Stephen Suffet
> >> MAC FROM THE MOUNTAINS
> >> by Stephen L. Suffet © 1999
>
>
Greetings:
Naw, I doubt it. I made it up myself about 30 years ago. My wife and
I climbed Mount Washington on our honeymoon, staying at the Dolly Copp
Campground and ascending from the east via the Tuckerman Ravine and
Lion's Head Trails. I made the song up that day, tune as well as words.
It's a simple lilting tune in a quick waltz time, major key, but I guess
it can be slowed down to long meter.
I have always sung it a capella, but if there were a guitar part it
would go like this. The range is only one octave, in the key of D it
would range from a low a (5th string open) toa high a (3rd string, 2nd
fret). Low or high a's continue until changed to the other in transcrip-
tion below. Feel free to fool around with it ad lib.
3/4
D G D
d | f# f# f# |e d d | b d b |low a
His fa-ther's grand-fa-ther had come long a--go,
A A7
a | d d d | f# hi a a a | a a a | a
To set-tle New Hamp-shire in the White Moun-tain snow,
D G D
g g | a a a | f# d d | b d b | low a
And the place where he's born was his fam'-ly's own shack,
A7 d
a a | d d d |f# hi a (f#) | e low a c# | d
Though his name was Mac-Ken--zie, (the} folks called him Mac.
Of course this is a _very_ rough idea ofthe tune. For example, I
have not indicated the time value of the notes, nor have I put in any
rests. But please do not assume they are are equal quarter notes. They
are not. The two low a's in "Though his," to cite just one example, are
quick eighth notes that act as the pick up for the next measure.
Anyway see what you can do with it. It should sound good on your
fiddle, but you might want to push it up to A.
Regards,
Steve
jenni wallace-grate
Blue Mountain
Are You from Dixie
Old Buddy Goodnight
West Virginia, Oh My Home
Jeri Corlew
On Wed, 19 May 1999 17:53:41 -0700, Brad Morgan <old...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>There's also a very funny song called "Live Free or Die" about a New Hampshire man
>who killed his straying wife and is now working in prison stamping out license
>plates with this motto. In the end, he vows that next time he'll hold his temper
>until he can get to a state with a motto more in tune with being imprisoned.
>
I've heard that - can't remember who does it, though.
>Stephen Suffet wrote:
>
>> > On Tue, 18 May 1999 13:11:59 -0400, Stephen Suffet <Suf...@worldnet.att.net>
>> > wrote:
>> I heard Tony & Irene Saletan sing "The Old Granite State" many years
>> ago. I don't even know if they are still alive let alone performing.
They split a long time ago, but a couple of weeks ago, I heard Irene sing with
her twin sister. I don't know if they perform as a duo (The Kassoye (sp?)
Sisters) or whether they just did it at the festival for fun. She sounded and
looked great.
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> MAC FROM THE MOUNTAINS
>> by Stephen L. Suffet © 1999
Is this to the tune of something I might know?
One local songwriter has written a great ballad about the murders at Smuttynose
here in NH. (no state name in the chorus though)
http://seacoastnh.com/smuttynose/ballad.html
NH's own Shaw Brothers - http://theshawbrothers.com/reshaws.htm sing a bunch of
songs with NH in the title, or about NH.
Daniel R. Reitman
wrote:
>. . . .
>On Wed, 19 May 1999 17:53:41 -0700, Brad Morgan <old...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>There's also a very funny song called "Live Free or Die" about a New Hampshire man
>>who killed his straying wife and is now working in prison stamping out license
>>plates with this motto. In the end, he vows that next time he'll hold his temper
>>until he can get to a state with a motto more in tune with being imprisoned.
>I've heard that - can't remember who does it, though.
>>. . . .
>. . . .
Almost certainly Bill Morrissey, IIRC.
Dan, ad nauseam
Donald R. Soll
they're no fun. I tried for the obscure.
How about:
The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia:Emmylou Harris
Wild Montana Skies:Emmylou Harris/John Denver
Arkansas: Glen Campbell
Oklahoma Borderline: Vince Gill
Why Wyoming: Holly Dunn
Illinois: Dan Fogelberg
Down in Mary's Land?: Mary-Chapin Carpenter
Mississippi Squirrel Revival: Ray Stevens
You're Not in Kansas Anymore: Jo Dee Messina
He Rode All the Way to Texas:Originally by John Starling; Great
arrangement on TRIO II by Emmylou/Linda/Dolly
DO PROVINCES COUNT? : Alberta Bound: Gordon Lightfoot
Tennessee Flattop Box: Johnny, then Rosanne Cash
Leavin' Louisiana in the Broad Daylight: Many
Check the transmission time: I gotta go to bed.
Some of those are not quite as obscure as I was looking for but I tried.
Jon-Jon
Did anyone mention the one that goes
When I drean about the moonlight on the Wabash
Then I long for my Indiana home.
Jon-Jon
Jon-Jon
How did Florida (Flori die) She died of Missouri
Frank Hamilton
boxcar by a black man called "Tennesee Blues".
Frank
Donald R. Soll
state names in the chorus but NOT IN THE TITLE. A bit tougher.
don
kenbro...@my-dejanews.com
"State Fair"
"My State" (not specified) from Meredith
Willson's "Here's Love"
"Sweet Virginia" The Rolling Stones
"Pennsylvania 6-500" Glenn Miller
"The Black Hills of Dakota" from "Calamity Jane"
by Fain and Webster
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> Ayuh - find one with "New Hampshire" in it! :-)
New Hampshire Naturally, by the Shaw Brothers (ex
Brandywine Singers). They also have one called
"Louisiana Young". I don't think anyone has
mentioned "New York Gals"(or New york Girls)
yet. This has had many recordings, including the
Ian Campbell Folk Group and Steeleye Span with
(I'm not kidding) Peter (Inspector Clouseau)
Sellers.
kenbro...@my-dejanews.com
"All I Owe Ioway" by Rodgers and Hammerstein, from "State Fair"
"Sweet Virginia" by the Rolling Stones (Exile on Main Street)
"My State" (State not specified) by Meredith Willson, from "Here's Love"
"Tennessee Bird Walk"
"Tennessee Flat-Top Box"
"Rocky Top" (Tennessee)
"Bowling Green" (a boy from Kentucky sure is lucky... Everly Bros)
"New York, New York" (Bernstein, Comden and Green, from "On the Town"
"New York, New York" (Kander and Ebb, from the film)
"Massachusetts" (Arlo Guthrie)
and my previous post should be Pennsylvania 6-5000 instead of 6-500 for
Glenn Miller
Nigel & Nancy Sellars
State's Name here."
amers
Farewell to Nova Scotia, and "We'll Rant and We'll Roar Like True
Newfoundlanders". Also, the song about Ontari-ari-ari-o is cute :)
Does anyone know any songs with the names of PEI, New Brunswick, BC,
Manitoba, or Saskatchewan?
-Amy
jay cat
"I'm from New York"
"I Live in Vermont"
"When I Visit Maine"
"Here's to Granny in Connecticut"
"Here's to Auntie in New Hampshire"
"You're From Rhode Island?"
"I Can't Get to Massachusetts (from here)"
"South of the Border There Lays Pennsylvania"
"I get 10 Cents-a-Minute to New Jersey"
"She Ended Up in Delaware"
Katherine Rossner
>Does anyone know any songs with the names of PEI, New Brunswick, BC,
>Manitoba, or Saskatchewan?
(From memory, so words may be slightly off)
"The prairie towns go sailing by/Saskatchewan, here's mud in your eye"
- Gordon Lightfoot, "Mountains and Maryann"
"Another Indian Summer is over/Here comes the rain/It's British
Columbia's trademark/Come back to haunt us again."
- Spirit of the West, "When Rivers Rise"
Katherine Rossner
Ken Hutchins
RJGra
"With my big hat, my small head
And cow-flop on my boots
I'm proud to be (yee-haw)
From Dumb-Ass, Texas"
Bob G.:
Kimberly
It's called "On the Banks of the Wabash"
Kim
John McGaraghan
I do adore that Northern California in the Rain,
but I can't ignore that Northern California's caused me pain.
Maybe by the morning's light I'll
think of her and end my fight
By morning time I think that I'm gonna be...
...be with her again.
John
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bucky
>
>Kinda purrrtty I thought. So how's this for a topic. Songs that employ a state
>( I don't mean to be excluding our non-American contributors, so I guess we can
>be somewhat flexible here ) name IN THEIR CHORUS (at least for now).
A bit obscure, but add this one by the Madison, WI group "Free Hot
Lunch" titled: I HATE TO WAKE UP SOBER IN NEBRASKA!
JudiLem
"Iowa-a-a-, etc"
And, all-inclusive, is Lou and Peter Berryman's "Your State's Name Here"....
Judi
"My life goes on in endless song....How can I keep from singing?"
Snelfrocky the First
You can hear it at http://www.mp3.com/DanBynum
SLHinton17
(at least for now).
********************I imagine every State has some songs that are hardly worth
singing. When I was in 3rd grade at Jefferson School, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, back
in 1924) we were taught a song that went like this:
OKLAHOMA
I give you a land of sun and show'rs
And summer the whole year long.
I give you a land where the golden hours
Roll by to the mockingbird's song.
Where the cotton blooms ''neath the southern sun
And the vintage hangs thick on the vine:
A land whose story has just begun--
This wonderful land of mine.
CHORUS:
Oklahoma, Oklahoma!
Fairest daughter of the West.
Oklahoma, Oklahoma!
'Tis the land I love the best.
We have often sung her praises
But we have not told the half;
Oklahoma, Oklahoma!
'Tis a toast we all can quaff!
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(My little sister Ann thought "vintage" was "spinach," and I always like
"Where the spinach hangs thick on the vine" better than the original.)
Then we moved to east Texas, and had to sing:
MY TEXAS
There's a land I know
Where the bluebonnets grow
And it's Paradise to me.
From Amarillo's snow
Down to Mexico --
From the Pecos to the sea.
There are prairies wide
On ev'ry side,
There are mountains heaven high.
Oh, I count the days
Until I raise
My eyes to that dear sky.
CHORUS:
I'm coming back to you, my Texas;
Back to the land that gave me birth,
Because at last I know your worth -
The finest place on God's green earth!
And when I get there
I want to tell you
Of a love that's true and strong.
I'm coming back to you, my dear old Texas --
That's where I belong!
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I've never heard either of these except in school, and I'm sorry I still
remember them!
Sam Hinton
La Jolla, CA
Bill H.
Of course in July we do have Be Kind to NJ Week. A necessity.
John Forster also has a bit of a satiric classic about his drive through
Mass. Entering Marion. Dave Van Ronk's version deliciously salatious.
Bill Hahn
WFDU 89.1 FM
CoProducer/Host
Traditions
JudiLem
We (I lived in NJ from 0-18) also had:
Take me back to the state of old New Jersey
Take me back to the Garden State I love....(and I don't remember the rest)
AND
My Garden State, I love to sing sweet songs to thee
Field and fountain, moor and mountain
Join in harmony
My Garden State, I'll sing your praises evermore
I want to live and die in dear old Jersey
By the blue Atlantic shore!
Never did "get" that song, as I lived between Hoboken and Newark, on the edge
of the Jersey Meadows, by the banks of the polluted Passaic River
Wally Macnow
state
>>( I don't mean to be excluding our non-American contributors, so I guess
we can
How about Lead Belly's<A
HREF="www.camsco.com/artists/leadbelly.html">Alabama Bound</A>
Wally Macnow
Joseph Kesselman, yclept Keshlam
regard...
Does the state name have to _appear_ in the chorus, or be _significant_
in the chorus? The former's a far large collection.
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Jack Cullen
it doesn't), but didn't Perry Como have a song about 30-40 years ago
called something like "What did Della wear?" that had a bunch of silly
lines that had almost nothing *but* the names of states in it? Not sos
you'd recognize them right away, though -- things like, "I do' ho, I'll
ask 'er," etc.
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West Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
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JesiAna
teacher at the school where I work chose it as a selection for the fifth/sixth
grade program. The kids had a lot of fun with it!
Jesiana
<<This may not belong here (50 self-inflicted lashes with a wet noodle if
it doesn't), but didn't Perry Como have a song about 30-40 years ago
called something like "What did Della wear?" that had a bunch of silly
lines that had almost nothing *but* the names of states in it? Not sos
you'd recognize them right away, though -- things like, "I do' ho, I'll
ask 'er," etc.
--
Jack Cullen>>
Jesiana
"If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing."
Dan Homan
I was thinking of this one too. Does anyone have all of the lyrics? I
always found it amusing.
thanks,
. . . Dan
In article <19990625152902...@ng-cs1.aol.com>, jes...@aol.com
(JesiAna) writes: > Why wouldn't it belong here? That song is a lot of fun, by
the way. Our music > teacher at the school where I work chose it as a
selection for the fifth/sixth > grade program. The kids had a lot of fun with
it! >
> Jesiana
>
> ...didn't Perry Como have a song about 30-40 years ago
> called something like "What did Della wear?" that had
> a bunch of silly lines that had almost nothing *but*
> the names of states in it?...
> Jack Cullen
Stewa1
Guess it's time for me to confess...I have the record! "Sing to Me, Mr. C" ;-)
jim
Larry Dornhoff
>
> I was thinking of this one too. Does anyone have all of the lyrics? I
> always found it amusing.
>
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