Rockin' across America

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So here's how to play.

Think of a song that names at least 3 cities or states across the USA.

Post the Youtube clip.

Select they lyric fragment(s) that identify the geography in the song!

Let's Rock across America (or blues, swing, jazz, hiphop, bebop across America!)

Here are 3 to get us started.

Heart of Rock and Roll - Huey Lewis and the News

Dc, san antone and the liberty town, boston and baton rouge

Tulsa, austin, oklahoma city, seattle, san francisco, too

Route 66- Composed by Bobby Troup, Youtube by Nat King Cole (other covers by Chuck Berry, Rolling Stones, etc.)

Well it winds from Chicago to LA

More than two-thousand miles all the way.

Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.

Well it goes through St. Louie down to Missouri

Oklahoma City looks oh so pretty.

You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico

Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona,

Kingsman, Barstow, San Bernardino.

YOU'RE MY HOME (Billy Joel)

Home could be the Pennsylvania turnpike

Indiana's early morning dew

high up in the hills of California

home is just another word for you.

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A couple more....

Simon and Garfunkel - America

"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh

"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"

It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw

I've gone to look for America

...

Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike

Steve Miller Band - Rock'n Me

I went from Phoenix, Arizona

All the way to Tacoma

Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A.

Northern California where the girls are warm

So I could be with my sweet baby, yeah

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OoOOHHhh a favorite... an old time favorite.... any other Woodie Guthrie fans?

This Land Is Your Land - Woodie Guthrie

This land is your land This land is my land

From California to the New York island;

From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters

This land was made for you and Me.

[Cherry&Ed 4]

I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash

I was totin' my pack along the long dusty Winnemucca road,

When along came a semi with a high an' canvas-covered load.

"If you're goin' to Winnemucca, Mack, with me you can ride."

And so I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside.

He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand.

And I said, "Listen, I've traveled every road in this here land!"

[Chorus:]

I've been everywhere, man.

I've been everywhere, man.

Crossed the desert's bare, man.

I've breathed the mountain air, man.

Of travel I've had my share, man.

I've been everywhere.

I've been to:

Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota,

Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota,

Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma,

Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma,

Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo,

Tocapillo, Baranquilla, and Perdilla, I'm a killer.

I've been to:

Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana,

Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana,

Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa,

Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa,

Tennessee, Hennessey, Chicopee, Spirit Lake,

Grand Lake, Devils Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake.

I've been to:

Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Ombabika,

Schefferville, Jacksonville, Waterville, Costa Rica,

Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield, Shreveport,

Hackensack, Cadillac, Fond du Lac, Davenport,

Idaho, Jellico, Argentina, Diamantina,

Pasadena, Catalina, see what I mean-a.

I've been to:

Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelbourg, Colorado,

Ellisburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, Eldorado,

Larimore, Admore, Haverstraw, Chatanika,

Chaska, Nebraska, Alaska, Opelika,

Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City,

Sioux City, Cedar City, Dodge City, what a pity.

Follow You Home - Nickelback

‘Cause you’re my Mississippi Princess

You’re my California Queen

Like the Duchess of Detroit

And every city in between

[almaty 19]

Please come to Boston

For the springtime

I'm stayin' here with some friends

And they've got lots of room

You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk

By a cafe where I hope to be workin' soon

Please come to Boston

She said no, boy you come home to me

[Chorus:]

(And) She said, hey ramblin' boy

Why don't you settle down

(Boston, Denver, L.A.) ain't your kind of town

There ain't no gold

And there ain't nobody like me

I'm the number one fan

Of the man from Tennessee

Please come to Denver

To see the snowfall

We'll move up into the mountains

So far we can't be found

And throw I love you echos

Down the canyons

And then lie awake at night

Until they come back around

Please come to Denver

She said no boy you come home to me

[Repeat Chorus:]

Now that drifter's world

Goes round and round

And I doubt if it's ever gonna stop

But of all the dreams

I've lost or found

And all that I ain't got

I need somebody I can cling to

Somebody I can sing to

He said please come to L.A.

To live forever

A California life alone

Is just too hard to live

I live in a house that

Looks out over the ocean

And there's some stars

That fell from the sky

Livin' up on the hill

Please come to L.A.

I just said no

Boy, you come home to me

[Repeat Chorus]

I'm the number one fan

Of the band from Tennessee

Tennessee

[Cherry&Ed 4]

One more...

Only in America - Brooks and Dunn

Sun coming up over New York City

School bus driver in a traffic jam

Starin' at the faces in her rearview mirror

Looking at the promise of the Promised Land

One kid dreams of fame and fortune

One kid helps pay the rent

One could end up going to prison

One just might be president

Sun going down on an L.A. freeway

Newlyweds in the back of a limousine

A welder's son and a banker's daughter

All they want is everything

She came out here to be an actress

He was the singer in a band

They just might go back to Oklahoma

And talk about the stars they could have been

Edited June 22, 2009 by Cherry♥Edward

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I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash

Cherry+Edward ..... Johnny Cash FTW!!!! :dance:

GREAT TUNE! I think you've rung the bell.. no one is gonna beat that for number of place references!

Amaty Youtube please. And songwriter/title would be nice please.

What do you guys think .. does California Girls count? It only names California explicitly.

But there are other regional references, so I vote it counts

Beach Boys - California Girls

Well east coast girls are hip

I really dig those styles they wear

And the southern girls with the way they talk

They knock me out when Im down there

The mid-west farmers daughters really make you feel alright

And the northern girls with the way they kiss

They keep their boyfriends warm at night

I wish they all could be california

I wish they all could be california

I wish they all could be california girls

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Fixed it up for you Dr. Dean!

Dave Loggins - Please Come to Boston

Please come to Boston

For the springtime

I'm stayin' here with some friends

And they've got lots of room

You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk

By a cafe where I hope to be workin' soon

Please come to Boston

She said no, boy you come home to me

[Chorus:]

(And) She said, hey ramblin' boy

Why don't you settle down

(Boston, Denver, L.A.) ain't your kind of town

There ain't no gold

And there ain't nobody like me

I'm the number one fan

Of the man from Tennessee

Please come to Denver

To see the snowfall

We'll move up into the mountains

So far we can't be found

And throw I love you echos

Down the canyons

And then lie awake at night

Until they come back around

Please come to Denver

She said no boy you come home to me

[Repeat Chorus:]

Now that drifter's world

Goes round and round

And I doubt if it's ever gonna stop

But of all the dreams

I've lost or found

And all that I ain't got

I need somebody I can cling to

Somebody I can sing to

He said please come to L.A.

To live forever

A California life alone

Is just too hard to live

I live in a house that

Looks out over the ocean

And there's some stars

That fell from the sky

Livin' up on the hill

Please come to L.A.

I just said no

Boy, you come home to me

[Repeat Chorus]

I'm the number one fan

Of the band from Tennessee

Tennessee

[Cherry&Ed 4]

I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash

Cherry+Edward ..... Johnny Cash FTW!!!! :dance:

GREAT TUNE! I think you've rung the bell.. no one is gonna beat that for number of place references!

Amaty Youtube please. And songwriter/title would be nice please.

What do you guys think .. does California Girls count? It only names California explicitly.

But there are other regional references, so I vote it counts

Beach Boys - California Girls

Well east coast girls are hip

I really dig those styles they wear

And the southern girls with the way they talk

They knock me out when Im down there

The mid-west farmers daughters really make you feel alright

And the northern girls with the way they kiss

They keep their boyfriends warm at night

I wish they all could be california

I wish they all could be california

I wish they all could be california girls

Hahahahha... Right on!

[Cherry&Ed 4]

One more...

Back in the USA - Chuck Berry

Oh well, oh well, I feel so good today,

We touched ground on an international runway

Jet propelled back home, from over the seas to the U. S. A.

New York, Los Angeles, oh, how I yearned for you

Detroit, Chicago, Chattanooga, Baton Rouge

Let alone just to be at my home back in ol' St. Lou.

Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway?

From the coast of California to the shores of Delaware Bay

You can bet your life I did, till I got back to the U. S. A.

[100% Al Ahly Fan 53]

Dj Khalid and Various Artists

I started in Atlanta then I spread out wit' it

South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi

On to North Carolina, Philadelphia and Virginia

From down in Miami where it warm in the winter

On up to Minnesota where it storm in the winter

Jackson then Tallahassee, Memphis, Tenn. holla at me

Been in H-Town, Southside, Cloverland daddy

I'm the man out in Dallas, better ask Khaled

Edited June 22, 2009 by 100% Al Ahly Fan

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Ok, I'm cheating and breaking my own (arbitrary) rules

These songs only reference two locations each.

Gladys Knight And The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia

LA proved too much for the man

(Too much for a man, he couldn't take it)

He couldnt make it, so he's leaving a life he's come to know

(He said he's going)

He said he's going back to find

(Going back to find)

What's left of his world

The world he left behind not so long ago

He's leaving (Leaving)

On that midnight train to Georgia

From L.A. to New York - from New York to L.A. - Patsy Gallant 1970s Disco Fever!!

From New York to L.A.

I'm a star in New York, I'm a star in L.A.

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One more...

God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood

From the lakes of Minnesota,

to the hills of Tennessee.

Across the plains of Texas,

From sea to shining sea.

From Detroit down to Houston,

and New York to L.A.

Well there's pride in every American heart,

and its time we stand and say.

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Willie Nelson City Of New Orleans

Riding on the City of New Orleans,

Illinois Central Monday morning rail

Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,

Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.

All along the southbound odyssey

The train pulls out at Kankakee

Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.

Passin' trains that have no names,

Freight yards full of old black men

And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

CHORUS:

Good morning America how are you?

Don't you know me I'm your native son,

I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,

I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.

Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.

Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle

Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.

And the sons of pullman porters

And the sons of engineers

Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.

Mothers with their babes asleep,

Are rockin' to the gentle beat

And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

CHORUS

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,

Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.

Half way home, we'll be there by morning

Through the Mississippi darkness

Rolling down to the sea.

And all the towns and people seem

To fade into a bad dream

And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.

The conductor sings his song again,

The passengers will please refrain

This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Good night, America, how are you?

Don't you know me I'm your native son,

I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,

I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

[100% Al Ahly Fan 53]

Will Smith - Miami

Dont get me wrong Charlotte Town got it going on

and New York is the city that we know dont sleep.

And we all know the LA and Philly stay jiggy, but on the snake,

Miami bringing heat for real, ya'll dont understand.

I never seen so many dominican women w/cinnamon tans.

"Mira, this is plan, take a walk on the beach, draw a heart in the sand, give

me your hand. Damn! you look sexy, lets go to yacth in the west keys, ride my

jet skis, lounge under the plam trees."

Cause you gottta have cheese for the summer time piece on south beach.

water so clear you can see to the bottom.

$100,000 cars, everybody got em.

Aint no place in a club to see sly stallon, miami, my second home.