# Another 'Where' lyrics quiz

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 3, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965 "2011-12-03T18:04:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/1 "2011-12-03T18:04:31Z")

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Not wanting to clutter up [Smapti’s quiz](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=633546), I started a new thread.

Don’t need artist or song title, just location:

1. Where was it raining hard when I needed one more fare to make my night?
2. Where are four dead?
3. Where is the place that wants me, but I can’t go back there?
4. Where did I stick around when I saw it was time for a change?
5. Where am I moving to soon to become a dental floss tycoon?
6. Where is calling to the faraway towns, now that war is declared, the battle come down?
7. Where do all my exes live?
8. Where was the turnpike covered in snow from Stockbridge to?
9. Where did it take me four days to hitchhike from?
10. Where is just like I pictured it, skyscrapers, and everything?
11. Where are we living and they’re closing all the factories down?
12. Where is a delta shining like a national guitar?
13. Where do I bless the rains?
14. Where were McGuinn and McGuire getting higher?
15. Where have you heard about after you heard about Houston and Detroit?
16. Where did I just get back from, then I locked the front door, oh boy?
17. Where were we pulled apart because her mom did not agree and tore apart our happy home?
18. Where do I want to go when I get off of this mountain, straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico?
19. Where do they got some pretty little women and I’m going to get me one?
20. Where have I never been, but I kinda like the music?

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/2 "2011-12-03T18:53:16Z")

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1. “Frisco”
2. Ohio
3. Montana
4. New York City
5. Either Graceland or wherever the guy is while en route to Graceland
6. Africa

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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/3 "2011-12-03T19:34:41Z")

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1. OHIO

2. Indiana

3. St. Petersburg

4. Texas

5. Allentown

6. On the way to Graceland, near the Mississippi river. Don’t think the state is specified.

7. Africa

8. Pittsburgh, PA

9. Illinois

10. Tennessee (Memphis?)

Less than half. ETA: OK exactly half, if I get credit for 17.

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**Author:** ![President\_Johnny\_Gentle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@President\_Johnny\_Gentle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/President_Johnny_Gentle)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/4 "2011-12-03T23:54:22Z")

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Some of the ones I know duplicate the above answers, but I can add

1. London
2. Lake Charles, Louisiana

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**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/5 "2011-12-04T00:33:01Z")

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1. Kansas City
2. Spain

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/6 "2011-12-04T02:56:34Z")

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Unanswered:

1. Where was the turnpike covered in snow from Stockbridge to?
2. Where did it take me four days to hitchhike from?
3. Where were McGuinn and McGuire getting higher?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/7 "2011-12-04T03:26:29Z")

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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> Unanswered:
> 
> 1. Where was the turnpike covered in snow from Stockbridge to?
> 2. Where did it take me four days to hitchhike from?
> 3. Where were McGuinn and McGuire getting higher?

#8- Boston (From James Taylor’s “Sweet Baby James.”)  
#9- Saginaw (From Simon & Garfunkel’s “America”)  
#15- L.A. (from “Creeque Alley” by the Mamas & the Papas)

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/8 "2011-12-04T03:32:06Z")

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1. Where are there 4,000 holes?

2. In what state capital could you have seen Sweet Connie’s act?

3. In what state capital was I feeling as faded as my jeans?

4. In what state capital can you sell your paintings on the sidewalk?

5. In what state capital can you find 1.352 guitar pickers?

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/9 "2011-12-04T03:44:54Z")

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1. Blackford Lancashire

2. I know it’s somewhere in America, judging from the song title. Probably has a railroad in it 40 days from where they started, but I don’t recall the place.

3. Baton Rouge

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**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/10 "2011-12-04T04:42:53Z")

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1. Denver
2. Nashville

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/11 "2011-12-04T05:52:48Z")

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> [@j666](#):
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> 1. Denver
> 2. Nashville

Nashville is correct (it’s from “Nashville Cats” by the Lovin’ Spoonful), but Denver is wrong.

So, #22 and #24 are still unsolved.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/12 "2011-12-04T05:56:32Z")

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> [@j666](#):
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> 1. Denver

Boston.

The Denver verse (from memory, so if I err, please excuse it):

_Please come to Denver when the snow flies.  
We’ll move up into the mountains so far that we can’t be found,  
And throw “I love you” echoes down the canyons,  
And lie awake at night 'till they come back around.  
Please come to Denver; she just said no…_

No paintings in Denver. Those were in Boston.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/13 "2011-12-04T06:19:49Z")

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> [@Spoons](#):
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> Boston.
> 
> The Denver verse (from memory, so if I err, please excuse it):
> 
> _Please come to Denver when the snow flies.  
> We’ll move up into the mountains so far that we can’t be found,  
> And throw “I love you” echoes down the canyons,  
> And lie awake at night 'till they come back around.  
> Please come to Denver; she just said no…_
> 
> No paintings in Denver. Those were in Boston.

Bingo- I figured you had the wrong verse of the right song!

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**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/14 "2011-12-04T13:16:24Z")

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> [@Spoons](#):
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> Boston.

[Never second guess yourself.]

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/15 "2011-12-04T14:22:00Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> 21)22) In what state capital could you have seen Sweet Connie’s act?

I know what song it’s from…trying to find that piece of my brain that contains the full lyric…gimme a minute here…  
mmm  
ETA: Omaha is mentioned in the song, but that’s not a state capital

ETA # 2: Little Rock???

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/16 "2011-12-04T17:46:43Z")

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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> I know what song it’s from…trying to find that piece of my brain that contains the full lyric…gimme a minute here…  
> mmm
> 
> ETA # 2: Little Rock???

Yes- from Grand Funk’s “We’re on American Band.”  
“On the road for 40 days,  
Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze.  
Sweet, sweet Connie was doing her act.”

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/17 "2011-12-07T15:16:47Z")

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1. What city is like a friendly old ghost you seem to pass right through?

2. Where does the Seminole Wind blow all the way up to?

3. Where is the singer looking for a limo driver to take him to the show?

4. She mailed her letter off to Dallas, but the reply came from where?

5. Where is Black Betty from?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/18 "2011-12-07T16:17:55Z")

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> [@Wheelz](#):
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> 1. Where is Black Betty from?

From Birmingham (bam-a-lam-a-lam, down in Alabam’ …)

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/19 "2011-12-07T16:19:04Z")

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> [@Wheelz](#):
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> 1. Where is the singer looking for a limo driver to take him to the show?

Boise, Idaho (from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “What’s Your Name?”)

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**Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-where-lyrics-quiz/604965/20 "2011-12-07T16:52:50Z")

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1. 
2. Ohio
3. Indiana
4. St. Petersburg
5. Montana
6. 
7. 
8. Boston
9. Saginaw
10. 
11. Allentown
12. Mississippi (?)
13. Africa
14. San Francisco (?)
15. 
16. Illinois
17. 
18. Cripple Creek
19. 
20.

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