Hey, it wasn’t obscure the day I wrote that. He had an obituary on the front page of the NYTimes’ website.
Morning Morgantown
Buy your dreams a dollar down
Joni Mitchell (Who is talking today)
WV is in
“See I’m the long leaner Victor the Cleaner
I’m the illest motherfucker from here to Gardena [California]”
- Beastie Boys, So What’cha Want
I am flabbergasted! Truly astonished! Thanks to everyone who has replied to this thread.
I love it when Dopers come through!!!
You’re from Secausus - I’m from Manhattan
You’re jealous of me because your girlfriend is cattin’
Beastie Boys, The New Style
Washington has been covered, but I love this song.
“Seattle” by The Hot Toddies
I miss my boy when I’m in Seattle
I’d like to ride him like a horse without a saddle
I’d like to spank him with a big wooden paddle
I get so horny when I’m in Seattle
Seattle, Seattle
Seattle, Seattle
On the road, it’s such a battle
When I go out I like to shake my rattle
It gets so hard without someone to straddle
I get so horny when I’m in Seattle
Seattle, Seattle
Seattle, Seattle
It’s time to skedaddle, to Canada.
Are we including ones that rhyme the city and state?
Because this is the best I can do for South Dakota.
*
He said, “I hope to god she finds
The goodbye letter that I wrote her
'Cause the mail don’t move too fast
In Rapid City, South Dakota”*
(Dwight Yoakam)
Another one-I think it has to be West Virginia but it doesn’t mention the state:
When morning comes to Morgantown
The merchants roll their awnings down
The milktrucks make their morning rounds
In morning Morgantown
(Joni Mitchell)
“L-A, New York Yankee n* to Hotlanta
‘ouisiana, all my n* wit “Country Grammar”
Smokin blunts in Savannah [Georgia]
Blow thirty mill’ like I’m Hammer”
- Nelly, Country Grammar
North Dakota is tough. I may have to cheat a little. Does it count if the lyrics mention Fargo, but they’re talking about the movie?
Hey, Leonardo (She Likes Me for Me) - Blessed Union of Souls:
*She likes me for me
Not because I hang with Leonardo
Or that guy who played in “Fargo” *
One more:
South Carolina
Down in Myrtle Beach
Dance to the music
Twistin’ to the beat
(Sammy Hagar)
I also found one that rhymes Narragansett with “your shoes are wet” but I’m not sure it counts since I’ve never heard of the band. link.
I lied-one more that I’m not sure counts because it’s sort of a rhyme but the corresponding lines don’t rhyme in any other verses.
it’s raining down in Eastern Pawtucket
it’s raining down in Philly, too
stood outside praying to get wet
and I ended up with mud all over my shoes
(Gutterball)
Still looking for South Dakota?
I don’t know if this counts:
We were all wounded at wounded knee, you and me
We were all wounded at wounded knee, you and me
In the name of manifest destiny, you and me
You and me, you and me
Read more at REDBONE - WE WERE ALL WOUNDED AT WOUNDED KNEE LYRICS
Maybe this’ll do? I’m from New England.
BRIGHT-EYED LITTLE NELL OF NARRAGANSETT BAY
Sung by: Mrs. W.B. Apple
Recorded on 7/20/62
Click here to listen to the original recording
Full well do I remember
My boyhood’s happy hours,
The cottage and the garden
Where blooms the fairest flowers,
The bright and sparkling water
O’er which we used to play
With the bright-eyed laughing little Nell
Of Narragansett Bay.
Chorus: Toll, toll the bell
At early dawn of day
For lovely Nell,
So quickly passed away.
Toll, toll the bell,
A soft and mournful lay,
For the bright-eyed laughing little Nell
From Narragansett Bay.
One day from us she wandered,
And soon was in a boat.
The cord was quickly loosened,
And with the tide afloat.
The arrow bound it over
. . . through the spray,
With the bright-eyed laughing little Nell
Of Narragansett Bay.
(Chorus)
Next day her form, all lifeless,
Was washed up on the beach.
I stood and gazed upon her,
Bereft of sense and speech.
'Tis years since last we parted,
But here I weep today,
For the bright-eyed laughing little Nell
Of Narragansett Bay.
(Chorus)
(Mrs. Apple: “I want to hear that. I think I’ve got it too high.”
Dr. Wolf: “Now, where’d you learn that? That sounded good.”
Mrs. Apple: “Uh, well now, I learned that also at this same age, and I learned it from school friends. A lady by the name of Bess Linebarger used to know a lot of songs, and I think I learned this one from her.”)
All Songs Recorded by John Quincy Wolf, Jr., unless otherwise noted
The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection
Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas
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©Copyright 2002 Lyon College
For North Dakota, I found “The Deadwood Stage” by Doris Day:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dorisday/thedeadwoodstage.htm
The lyrics include these winning lines:
l"We’re headin’ straight for town,
Loaded down,
With a fancy cargo,
Care of Wells and Fargo,
Illinois - Boy!"
The “Fargo” in “Wells Fargo” is an individual named Fargo, not the city in North Dakota.
Does “What Did Della Wear?” not count for this purpose?
I know, I know, but gimme a break! We can actually eliminate North Dakota!!!
Okay, here’s “Traveling Clean” by Jimmy Buffet:
"
JIMMY BUFFETT LYRICS
“Travelin’ Clean”
You go to Fargo,
We’ll meet in Chicago,
Travelin’ light and travelin’ clean
In my nine wheel blue and white travelin’ machine.
And I’m gone I’m movin’ on, yes I’m gone."
My favorite is “Paducah” from The Gang’s All Here.