IIRC, Wakko’s America has every state in it.
How about Whoever’s in New England by Reba. It talks about Massachusetts.
Head’s Carolina, Tails California JoDee Messina mentions obviously Carolina and California. She doesn’t specify which Carolina. Also mentioned are Boston and Des Moines but you didn’t say anything about cities.
There’s also Forty Hour Week (for a living) by Alabama. Kansas, West Virginia and some cities are mentioned. By the same band there’s also I’f You’re Gonna Play In Texas (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band). This song mentions Texas and Louisiana.
Keep 'em coming, guys! Here’s what I need:
- Nebraska (I used the Springsteen song for Wyoming)
- New Hampshire
- Delaware (I’d like to avoid the “What Did Delaware” song if I can help it)
- Missouri
- Virginia
- Hawaii
There’s a song called “Cadillac Ranch” by little known indie artist Bruce Springsteen that has the line
“Little girl in the blue jeans so tight
Ridin off into the Wisconsin night.”
Someone (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band?) remade this and changed it to “Colorado Night”.
Rat-bastards.
Unless I missed something in the rules, I think the Tori song I mentioned should count for Virginia. It’s mentioned a couple of times in the lyrics, and it avoids the ‘only in the chorus’ rule because there doesn’t seem to be a chorus. The first line is “in the lush virginia hills,” and I’m sure if there’s a chorus, the first line wouldn’t be it. 
“Honolulu Lulu” by Godley & Creme (“Aloha, it’s Honolulu Lulu from Hawaii”)
“The Great Nebraska Sea” by Blake Hodgetts (“On October 4, North Platte, Nebraska plummeted eight feet”)
“You Came a Long Way From St. Louis” by Marvin Gaye (“Well, baby, I got news for you, I’m from Missouri too.”)
Can I just ask: do you care that the song you have for New Jersey is about (and named for) a Pennsylvania city?
Not that there’s any shortage of songs mentioning Jersey, of course.
“Square from Delaware” by Fats Waller
Lyle Lovett, That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas)
“They’re OK in Oklahoma
Up in Arkansas they’re fair
But those old folks in Missouri
They don’t even know you’re there”
That song also mentions Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and Carolina (but not specificially North or South)
I think the song Skyway by The Replacements would be a good Minnesota song.
I think A Long December would work better for California than Daylight Fading:
"And it’s one more day up in the canyons
And it’s one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California…I think you should "
“Old New Hampshire Home” by Smokey Greene
(I’ll Always) Miss New Hampshire" by Jim Britton
“Hazard” by Richard Marx (“I need to make it to the river, and leave this old Nebraska town.”)
Hawaii is mentioned indirectly in “The Last Resort” by the Eagles. (“You can leave it all behind, and sail to Lahaina, just like the missionaries did so many years ago.”)
For Wyoming, save that other song for Nebraska and use this:
“4.47 AM (The Remains of Our Love)” - Roger Waters
<towards the end of the song>
[Young Child:] “Are we going to go now?”
[Jade:] “Where would you like to go darling?”
[Wife:] “Mmm…Vermont…Wyoming.”
[Jade:] “Wyoming…huh…Children!”
[Children:] “What?”
[Jade:] “We’re going to Wyoming
Darling…Which way is Wyoming?”
[Wife:] “Hook a right here
You’re going the wrong way.”
[Jade:] "I know that
I know children…
Let’s see how many…Volvos we pass
On the way to our new life in the country
…One
[Wife:] “Jade, don’t do that, that’s really negative.”
…
To fine tune other states, consider these:
“New York Minute” - Don Henley
“California Girls” and “Hawaii” by the Beach Boys is pretty much a no-brainer.
“Please Come To Boston” - Kenny Chesney with the chorus:
“I’m the number one fan of the man from Tennessee”
Well, Rodgers and Hammerstein once wrote an entire musical about Oklahoma.
I can’t remember the title, though.
Kenny Chesney??? That song came out when he was 6. Dave Loggins, cousin of Kenny, wrote and sung it in 1974. It went to #5. It’s been covered by, among others, David Allen Coe, Joan Baez, Reba McEntire and Kenny Rogers.
I think it was called “The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.”
Billy Joel, “Somewhere Along the Line”:
*Sweet Virginia cigarette, burnin’ in my hand . . . *
“All I Owe Ioway” from “State Fair” by Rodgers and Hammerstein:
“All I know, all I owe, I owe Ioway
I owe Ioway all I know and I know why
I am Ioway born and bred
and on Ioway corn I’m fed
(Not to mention her barely, wheat and rye.)”
etc
Fenris
My bad… :smack:
I was guessing on who might have been the original artist…didn’t remember who it was since it’s been 15+ years since I heard it last.