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#863944 - 11/30/07 05:41 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Nanwa
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Billy Joel's "The Way the Lights Went Out" -

"Oh yes those lights were bright on Broadway, but that was so many years ago. Before we all moved here to Florida, before the Mafia took over Mexico..."
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#863950 - 11/30/07 05:44 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Nanwa
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The O.C., California
Oregon?
Utah?

Are there any songs for these?
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#863952 - 11/30/07 05:47 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned califgirl
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In the Snow :)
From South Pacific - I'm In Love With a Wonderful Guy:

....I'm as corny as Kansas in August
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#863969 - 11/30/07 05:59 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Snow Bunny
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How about Rhode Island, Maine, Nevada and Nebraska?

Paul Revere and the Raiders did "Arizona".
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#863979 - 11/30/07 06:04 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Hrothgar Geiger
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Originally Posted By: AML-Barbarian
Mississippi Queen

Wait a minute! I thought she was named after the river not the state.

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#863984 - 11/30/07 06:06 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned buggs
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Now you go through Saint Louie
Joplin, Missouri,
And Oklahoma City is mighty pretty.
You see Amarillo,
Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Dont forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino.

Get Your Kicks on Route 66

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#864047 - 11/30/07 06:35 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned buggs
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Iowa is mentioned in Sweet Home Chicago and in several songs from The Music Man.

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#864052 - 11/30/07 06:36 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Yossarian
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FINALLY ABOVE the gnat line
"Oklahoma" from the musical of the same name.
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#864057 - 11/30/07 06:38 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Yossarian
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F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-T-A-T-E FLORIDA STATE FLORIDA STATE WOOO!!!!


GO FSU!!
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#864142 - 11/30/07 07:28 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Nanwa
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Originally Posted By: Nanwa
How about Rhode Island, Maine, Nevada and Nebraska?



"State of Maine Song" - Roger Vinton Snow
(it's the state song)


OR... more popularly known
"King of the Road" - Roger Miller
Third boxcar, midnight train;
destination Bangor, Maine.


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#864184 - 11/30/07 07:47 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Bailey.
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Ridin' on the "City of New Orleans."
Illinois Central, monday morning rail."

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#864256 - 11/30/07 08:43 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned buggs
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Midwest
Back Home Again (In Indiana)
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#864270 - 11/30/07 08:53 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Pepper's Sister
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Back to Ohio - Crissie Hynde
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#864278 - 11/30/07 08:59 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned ~Special K~
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Running and riding everywhere ...
Missing Missouri by Sara Evans
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#864289 - 11/30/07 09:06 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned RR Jen
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Mississippi by Charlie Daniels
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#864300 - 11/30/07 09:16 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Nanwa
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Here's an older one for you: Pennsylvania 6-5000
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#864485 - 11/30/07 11:17 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Erl of Baltimore
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If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band
That lead guitar is hot but not for "Lousiana Man"
So rosin up that bow for "Faded Love" and let's all dance
If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band

I remember down in Houston we were puttin' on a show
When a cowboy in the back stood up and yelled, "Cotton-Eyed Joe"!
He said, "We love what you're doin', boys don't get us wrong
There's just somethin' missin' in your song"

So we dusted off our boots and put our cowboy hats on straight
Them Texans raised the roof when Jeff opened up his case
You say y'all all wanna two-step
You say ya wanna doe-si-doe
Well, here's your fiddlin' song before we go
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#864498 - 11/30/07 11:27 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Texas Boy
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under the Lone Star
Home Means Nevada
Written & Music by Bertha Raffetto


Way out in the land of the setting sun,
Where the wind blows wild and free,
There's a lovely spot, just the only one
That means home sweet home to me.
If you follow the old Kit Carson trail,
Until desert meets the hills,
Oh you certainly will agree with me,
It's the place of a thousand thrills.

Home means Nevada
Home means the hills,
Home means the sage and the pine.
Out by the Truckee, silvery rills,
Out where the sun always shines,
Here is the land which I love the best,
Fairer than all I can see.
Deep in the heart of the golden west
Home means Nevada to me.
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#864500 - 11/30/07 11:29 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Pale Rider
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under the Lone Star
Rhode Island's It for Me
Written by Charlie Hall
Music by Maria Day
Arranged by Kathryn Chester

Chorus
I’ve been to every state we have,
and I think I’m inclined to say
that Rhody stole my heart:
You can keep the forty-nine.

Herring gulls that dot the sky,
blue waves that paint the rocks,
water rich with Neptune’s life,
the boats that line the docks.
I see the lighthouse flickering
to help the sailors see.
There’s a place for everyone:
Rhode Island’s It for Me.

Rhode Island, oh Rhode Island
surrounded by the sea.
Some people roam the earth for home;
Rhode Island’s It for Me.
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#864572 - 12/01/07 03:17 AM Re: Songs with states mentioned Pale Rider
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Down in the west Texas town of El Paso...
I fell in love with a mexican girl
Night time would find me at Rosa's Cantina....



(Rosa's Cantina, well the one in went to in EP was a hole in the wall little shack next to the refineries, but great food and cheap too! ah memories )
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#864589 - 12/01/07 06:59 AM Re: Songs with states mentioned Ravenskye
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ooh, i got a good one.... five US states

Around the World byt he chili peppers (by the way, Flea lost his home in the recent Malibu fire )

Around the world
Around the world
All around the world
We could make time
Rompin and a stompin
cause Im in my prime
Born in the north
And sworn to entertain ya
cause Im down for
The state of pennsylvania

I try not to whine
But I must warn ya
bout the girls
From california

Alabama baby
Said hallelujah
Good God girl
I wish I knew ya

I know I know for sure
That life is beautiful around the world
I know I know its you
You say hello and then I say I do

Come back baby
cause Id like to say
Ive been around the world
Back from bombay

Fox hole love
Pie in your face
Living in and out
Of a big fat suitcase

Bonafide ride
Step aside my johnson
Yes I could
In the woods of wisconsin

Wake up the cake
Its a lake shes kissin me
As they do when
When they do in sicily

I know I know for sure
That life is beautiful around the world
I know I know its you
You say hello and then I say I do

Where you want to go
Who you want to be
What you want to do
Just come with me

I saw god
And I saw the fountains
You and me girl
Sittin in the swiss mountains

Me oh my o
Me and guy o
Freer than a bird
cause were rockin ohio

Around the world
I feel dutiful
Take a wife
cause life is beautiful

I know I know for sure
$%%&*^&^$#$@##%&^*(*(&%%^$%$
I know I know its you
&*%^$#@#$%^&*&()**%%$#@#$%*%

Mother russia do not suffer
I know youre bold enough
Ive been around the world
And I have seen your love
I know I know its you

You say hello then I say I do
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#864620 - 12/01/07 07:29 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Dip
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"Minnesota Girl" by Green Day


Sittin' on the hood of a camaro
Walkin' shooting stars across the earth
Counting all the bites from the mosquitoes
There goes my Minnesota girl


The mosquitoes line is oh, so true
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#864643 - 12/01/07 11:32 PM Re: Songs with states mentioned Princess Leia
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Here's one for Nanois:

"The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some small mill in Wisconsin"

Name That Tune (hint, I should have posted this yesterday when it was still November ...)
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#864648 - 12/02/07 03:09 AM Re: Songs with states mentioned Princess Leia
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Texas flood by-Stevie Ray Vaughn
"Well there's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
Well there's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
And I've been tryin' to call my baby
Lord and I can't get a single sound"

or one i can't help to sing along to

"Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us fueding
like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain"

or the one i've been singing all day since putting up blue and silver star shaped christmas lights outside (COWBOYS BABY) --

"The stars at night
are big and bright
::clap clap clap clap::
Deep in the heart of Texas"

(oh how i can't wait to go back to Texas ::sigh:: )
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#864649 - 12/02/07 04:08 AM Re: Songs with states mentioned Ravenskye
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there was this song we used to sing at the sing-a-longs in elementary school to leanr all fifty states....

"north carolina, arkansas, ne wjersey, minnasota...
louisiana, georgia vermont, michigan virginia....
--more states--
maine and califirnia!"
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