Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America” was another song written by Brits, and includes the lines “New York to East California/ There’s a new wave coming, I warn ya” which shows some confusion about which part of California was where the cool kids equal to those in New York were located in the left coast.
Or maybe they were just really hyped up about freshwater surfing in Lake Tahoe
Neil Young also breaks the news that these Big Birds fly “across the sky,” unlike the Tiny Birds elsewhere that must burrow through the earth to get where they’re going.
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In the musical & movie 1776 there’s a song, originally cut from the movie as a favor to Nixon (but that’s another story) - “Cool, Cool, Considerate Men” - where the lyrics
To the right, ever to the right. Never to the left, forever to the right. Let our creed. Be never to exceed. To the right, ever to the right. Never to the left, forever to the right. Let our creed. Be never to exceed. Regulated speed. No matter what the need…
…espouse conservatism- but the terms “right wing” and “left wing” denoting conservative and liberal didn’t come around until the French revolution…
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Waiting in Ambush, I would think. Remarkable patience.
That line always bothered me when I was a kid. What? The cool kids are in San Berdoo? Nah.
Next you’ll be telling me Snoopy never was never shot down by the Red Baron. 
“Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” was a famous song. It was done in “Hellzapoppin” and in “I Want to Go Back to Dixie” Tom Lehrer mentioned that the people waited for the Robert E. Lee - “it was never there on time.” Baez would have known the song. I think her bigger sin was singing “so much cavalry came.”
As I remember it she started singing the “So much Cavalry” line after she got tired of people ridiculing her for sing the line as “Stonewall’s cavalry came” But she still didn’t care enough to get the damn song right.
It was Stoneman’s cavalry who actually wrecked the railroad. And Grant was as pissed off about it as Virgil Caine was.
I remember the Rolling Stone review of the album with it dinged her for that. And it sounds like so much in the studio version, but I assume she did it live many times before she recorded it.
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The South Toronto - US border is undefended, for now.
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That’s because in North Ontario, they get eaten by Big Birds. It’s a grand conspiracy masterminded by the Children’s Television Workshop and Neil Young to bring about equality for the letter “Zed”.
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Not “fish only live in South Toronto.” Only fish live in South Toronto. The only inhabitants of South Toronto are fish.
What were we talking about? Oh right, historical inaccuracy. Well, Neil Young lived in Omemee, which is not in North Ontario for two reasons. One, it’s in Southern Ontario, and two, there’s nowhere called North Ontario. This is on the borderline between historical and geographical inaccuracy, but Neil’s childhood is thought to be the topic of Helpless, and his childhood is history, so there’s that.
The truth is, South Ontario sounds just as good as North Ontario, but it’s also just as inaccurate.
Blind River is in Northern Ontario, but Neil was just passing through. He said “up in Blind River.” To him it was north.
Back to the OP.
Kokomo is in Indiana. Why the hell are The Beach Boys singing about it?
I imagine because it sounds cool?
“ The lyrics describe two lovers taking a trip to a relaxing place on Kokomo, a utopian island off the Florida Keys. In addition to the fictional Kokomo, the song also makes references to many real Caribbean islands…”
In Theory Of a Deadman’s “Lowlife” the singer says “I got an '82 Fiero with a car seat in the middle…”.
Fieros were built model years 1984-1988.
Also, I’ve been inside a Fiero, and they are two-seaters with no place in the middle where you could put a car seat.
I was born in Kokomo (the one in Indiana). Occasionally when I’ve told people that, they haven’t believed me, thinking that the Beach Boys made up that word.