Describe a city using only one-syllable words, try to guess other posters' cities

Green Bay.

This town is in the Lone Star State. Its on the Gulf of … let’s not go there. The name is the same words as what the priest would say to you when he gives you the Host, IF he spoke in the old old tongue of old old Rome.

Corpus Christi I suppose.

beans
cod
tea
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Boston

Right!

Witch

Salem?

Right!

Bruce wrote a song where the town went down when the mills closed, and now no one can find work,

Abilene?

Well, I screwed this up mightily. Bruce did write a similar song, but it didn’t mention a particular city. So don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.

OK, whatever the Bruce song may be, it reminds me of another:

Bill Joel has an old song on life in this steel town when the plants closed and then no one had work, they wait in line and fill out forms.
Now the town gets folks moving from New York and is in lists of good towns to live.

Allentown. And “moving”’is two syllables.

OK, correcting then:

to “Now the town gets folks who move from New York”

Back to post 155,

Luzerne!

There’s a zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo in my town :women_with_bunny_ears::microphone::musical_notes:

Is the town named for St. James, in the tongue of Spain? That’s the zoo that’s known best.

Ipanema?

Kalamazoo?

Yes!:raising_hands:

Clues I was about to give fcs. Glen Miller made a song about it, also called celery city back in the mucky days, River of the same name runs through it.

A couple of easy ones:

My home town, two big bombs were built there.

I left my blood pump there.