It’s not just the use of “Oh” vs. “On”, though. The song/poem gives the sense of being a unified whole, and describes things that are geographically impossible. It doesn’t “read” as if he’s giving as stream of consciousness about random bits he recalls – he’s strung them all together in an impossible mess.
Which is pretty much what I suggest in my last post.
[quoite]No, I do not agree. Not if the song were about a journey from, say Rio de Janeiro, sung by to Minneapolis and consisted largely of an ocean voyage followed by voyage up the Mississippi, and were being sung in Rio to someone resident in Rio.
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Well, we’re gonna have to disagree, then, because that sounds crazy to me.