# America-themed songs: need your help! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953 "2017-04-21T23:00:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/41 "2017-04-23T13:40:38Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > This Land is Your Land is not an “America” song. It’s an anti-private property song. Woody’s \*original \*version was. His second version, the one people know, is generic love of country. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/42 "2017-04-23T13:45:08Z")
For you francophones, there’s Joe Dassin’s [“L’Amerique”.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPn52kRQx3k) [Lyrics](http://lyricstranslate.com/en/l039amerique-america.html). _L’Amérique, l’Amérique, je veux l’avoir et je l’aurai L’Amérique, l’Amérique, si c’est un rêve, je le saurai Tous les sifflets des trains, toutes les sirènes des bateaux M’ont chanté cent fois la chanson de l’Eldorado De l’Amérique_ America, America, I want to have it and I will America, America, if it’s a dream I’ll know it All the train’s whistles, all the boat’s sirens Sang to me a hundred times the song of the Eldorado Of America There’s a retort about how Europe may not be America but it’s not bad: Jean-Claude Pascal’s [“C’est peut-être pas l’Amérique”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27est_peut-%C3%AAtre_pas_l%27Am%C3%A9rique) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/43 "2017-04-23T13:48:30Z")
[Welcome Emigrante](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XXcn1L9x_s), Buffy Sainte Marie ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/44 "2017-04-24T14:00:08Z")
Denver: Take Me Home, Country Roads Nelson: The City of New Orleans Charles: A Rainy Night in Georgia Elvis: Cold Kentucky Rain Page: Old Cape Cod Sinatra: New York, New York Sinatra: Chicago (My Kind of Town) Sinatra: Let’s Get Away from It All! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/45 "2017-04-24T14:09:54Z")
City of New Orleans and This Land is Your Land But Paul Simons American Tune is my favorite. Especially this lyric "I don’t know a soul that’s not been battered I don’t have a friend that feels at ease I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered Or driven to its knees But it’s alright, it’s alright it’s alright For we live so well so long Still when I think about the road we’re traveling on I can help but wonder what’s gone wrong." This pretty much sums up the American Experience for me. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/46 "2017-04-24T14:12:46Z")
CCR: Proud Mary Hank Williams III: Mississippi Mud Highwaymen: Cotton Fields Johnny Horton: North, to Alaska! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/47 "2017-04-24T14:29:16Z")
You want the “American Experience”? :dubious: Johnny Cash: Sunday Morning Comin’ Down Johnny Cash: Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues Roger Miller: King of the Road Jimmy Dean: Big John Bobbie Gentry: Ode to Billy Joe Jeannie C Riley: Harper Valley PTA Merle Haggard: An Okie from Muskogee Dueling Banjos ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/48 "2017-04-24T14:56:45Z")
Theres probably at lest one song about every state: Stars Fell on Alabama North to Alaska By the Time I get to Phoenix Arkansas Traveler California Dreamin’ Rocky Mountain High Into the Mystic (Is that about Connecticut?) and so on. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/49 "2017-04-24T15:07:51Z")
The Ballad of Daniel Boone The Ballad of Davey Crockett The Ballad of Jed Clampett In Seattle (Here Come the Brides) The Yellow Rose of Texas [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uS5cPfbIjw) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/50 "2017-04-24T15:46:19Z")
nm, mixed up two songs. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/51 "2017-04-24T15:56:27Z")
Didn’t see Kansas’ [Song For America](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC-JhQ1p7nw) posted yet. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/52 "2017-04-24T16:08:04Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Theres probably at lest one song about every state: > > Stars Fell on Alabama > North to Alaska > By the Time I get to Phoenix > Arkansas Traveler > California Dreamin’ > Rocky Mountain High > Into the Mystic (Is that about Connecticut?) > > and so on. All My Exes Live in Texas 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/53 "2017-04-24T16:49:59Z")
Glen Campbell: Wichita Lineman ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/54 "2017-04-24T17:17:22Z")
Thanks, everybody, for these terrific recommendations. Should make for a fun mix. Some classics, some patriotic, some not quite as much, but all appreciated! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/55 "2017-04-24T18:23:24Z")
Jan and Dean: Surf City 🆒 Beach Boys: Surfin’ USA Beach Boys: California Girl California, Here I Come! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXiyg8B7TOA) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/56 "2017-04-24T19:26:16Z")
I can’t find a song that mentions Delaware, besides Josh Ritter’s “Hotel Song”, with a reference to seeing a Delaware license plate. Although Perry Como did a corny song with all the state puns in it, such as “What did Delaware” (Ans:. Her New Jersey" Actuall, the fuller version of that was: Q - “If Mississippi wore her New Jersey, what did Delaware” A - “Idaho – Alaska”. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/57 "2017-04-24T19:40:27Z")
[_Monster_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk3sURDS4IA) by Steppenwolf ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/58 "2017-04-24T19:44:49Z")
We’ve had Alaska; here’s Hawaii! 🆒 [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc_ItEm5W54) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/59 "2017-04-24T19:54:39Z")
… And, in honor of the first Americans: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5PtsRNcw26k/maxresdefault.jpg "The Shadows - Apache (2004) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PtsRNcw26k) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953/60 "2017-04-24T19:56:47Z")
More Hawaii: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GnJswrBEVww/hqdefault.jpg "The Ventures - Diamond Head (1965)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnJswrBEVww) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-themed-songs-need-your-help/784953.md?page=4)