That would be the most charitable assumption.
I am a city girl born and raised in northeast Detroit. When singing along to that song, I make it thus:
“Just a city boy…born and raised in Canada…”
As that is where South Detroit would be if it existed.
And mine.
Pretty much any song by America. Where is Ventura Highway, and just what is an alligator lizard and does it have any flight abilities whatsoever? Where is the Tropic of Sir Galahad, for that matter?
All I can say is Mr. Hammond is very confused…
In California, of course
Ventura Freeway - Wikipedia.
When I was a wee outlier, growing up in the vicinity or the Ventura freeway listening to that song on the radio, everybody ‘knew’ that Alligator lizards would jump out of the tress and land on your head. Just sayin’.
Just sayin’ that the reality of the* 101 Freeway does no justice at all to the dreamy vision of Ventura Highway evoked by the song, alligator lizards or no.
*yes, I’m a native Californian. Why do you ask?
The reality of Ventura Highway, as noted by The Big Bang Theory:
Professor Crawley: Of course I can. I can identify every insect and arachnid on the planet. Not that that’s going to keep me from having to move in with my daughter in Oxnard. And we’re not talking Oxnard at the beach. No! We’re talking Oxnard in the onion fields
British Overseas Airways Corporation never had a flight from Miami Beach to the USSR.
In fairness to America, they did accurately state that heat is hot.
In the Year 2525. Oh wait…
The Perfect Country Music Song by David Allen Coe.
Wrong sport. Celtic F.C. and Manchester United.
And, of course, Carly Simon has a lot of nerve complaining about who might be the inspiration for a song, right? Maybe she’s just a very vain person.
Happiness is Lubbock Texas in the rearview mirror.
I don’t think Bob Marley really shot the sheriff.
But did Weird Al really have dreams about being stuck in a closet with Vanna White night after night after night?
YOU ARE WRONG THERE, PAL!!!