Best SONG named after a place?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Same rules, and same disclaimer, as the band one :eyes:

[BlueEyedSon]

1. New York, New York!

[Burma Jones]

2. Sweet Home Chicago....(n/t)

[bobthedrummer]

62. Sweet Home Chicago

gets my vote too.

[Shoedogg]

3. Beatles...

Back in the USSR

[arwalden]

4. Key West, Fire Island, San Francisco, Hollywood,

I'm headed for Key West, the key to happiness, I'm on the run gonna have some fun.

Fire Island! It's a funky weekend a funky funky weekend.

Take a bus a train or a plane to Hollywood, go there and then change your name

San-Fran-Cisco San Francisco... take me by the water, yeah. You got me! Hey hey hey you got me!

Go West! Life is peaceful there! Go West! Lots of open air!

-- Allen

[DBoon]

5. "Los Angeles" by X

n/t

[Richardo]

7. Also "L.A. Woman" by the Doors

[Screaming Lord Byron]

38. Los Angeles by Frank Black.

[Whitacre D_WI]

65. Wow.

In this sub-thread, we've had both "she had to leave Los Angeles" AND "I wanna live in Los Angeles."

Pretty much sums it all up.

[NuckinFutz]

6. Georgia

eom

[arwalden]

8. On My Mind? Midnight Train To? The Night The Lights Went Out In?

[NuckinFutz]

13. without doubt...

Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles, of course.

Though the other two are also quite good.

[mobuto]

47. Billie Holiday

sang it better.

[Anaxamander]

57. Georgia, sweet Georgia!

That song is close to my heart.

[Gildor Inglorion]

103. Mine, too

Georgia will always be home, even though I've "lived" in Mississippi for four years now. It breaks my heart to see my beloved state becoming more and more Mississippi-like. I can't even think the names Saxby Chambliss and Sonny Perdue without a *shudder*!

[Richardo]

9. Call me schmaltzy, but I always liked "Galveston"...

...when I was a kid growing up in SoCal. (Dad was a Glenn Campbell fan)

After I moved to Texas, I experienced a little cognitive dissonance trying to match up the romanticism of the song with the reality of the place...

[arwalden]

46. Wichita Lineman (But that's more about the lineman... not Wichita)

[Richardo]

51. I liked that one, too...

three four. :D

[arwalden]

52. Off Topic

But do you also remember "Mary In The Morning"? (My dad used to listen to that all the time when I was a child.) I still recall many of the lyrics.

-- Allen

[Richardo]

55. That one I do NOT remember, but would probably recognize if I heard it

My brothers and I heard a LOT of Glen Campbell, Hank Williams (Sr), Johnny Cash and Hee Haw in our household when we were kids.

[soleft]

77. Don't you think Witchita Lineman would make a great movie

Lineman gets electrocuted on the job, and then he starts hearing people thru the wire, leading to all kinds of dramatic situations.

[Snow]

61. I like 'Galveston' a lot - it was a subtle anti-war song,

a bit surprising in retrospect since I didn't realize Campbell was interested in that. Too bad he's messing up his life so much - the man is an incredible guitarist.

[achtung_circus]

99. Galveston was,

I have heard written during the Second World War. Apparently a lot of American servicemen shipped out of the Gulf Coast ports and one of them wrote this song.

Or so I recall hearing.

Am I right or am I wrong yet again?

[Snow]

107. I always thought it was another Jimmy Webb composition,

but I'll look around a bit.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Here's a few.

Vancouver - Jeff Buckley, Berlin - Lou Reed, Panic in Detroit - David Bowie, that song by that guy, y'know, whatsisface?

[elfwitch]

11. China Grove, Doobie Brothers

Because it mentions my home town of San Antonio.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

42. there really IS a China Grove....

.....saw it on the map. Its a subub of San Antonio.

[elfwitch]

49. not really a suburb...

It is it's own little city with a mayor and everything.

[NoPasaran]

81. My street is China Grove

Actually a cul de sac

12. Mendocino by Sir Douglas or

Positively 4th Street , Dylan or
London Calling , Clash or
Whiskey River , Willie Nelson or
Strawberry Fields Forever , Beatles or
Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone? , Sir Douglas or
Manhattan Avenue, Nellie McKay


stop me now!!

[Bertha Venation]

14. because Randy Newman is a god

and because I'm feeling particularly homesick today, I vote "I Love L.A."

I don't love L.A., the city, itself, but the song makes me long to be home in So. California -- just like everything else in the world does.

[mobuto]

17. Randy Newman it is?

How about Burn On?

Cleveland, city of light, city of magic
Cleveland, city of light, you're calling me
Cleveland, even now I can remember
'Cause the Cuyahoga River
Goes smokin' through my dreams

Burn on, big river, burn on
Burn on, big river, burn on
Now the Lord can make you tumble
And the Lord can make you turn
And the Lord can make you overflow
But the Lord can't make you burn

[Bertha Venation]

18. yeah! Great song.

Did he write that for the film it was featured in -- do you know?

I also dig "Baltimore," and his theme song for "Monk," and the one he wrote for "Monsters, Inc." and a hundred others.

[mobuto]

24. It was in Major League

Which is, without doubt, the greatest movie ever made.

;-)

My Sail Away album was issued when Charlie Sheen was still in diapers, so I don't think the two are related.

[SiobhanClancy]

74. Belfast Child~Simple Minds.........................n/t

[11 Bravo]

15. There is ... a house ... in New Orleans ...

they call the Rising Sun.

on edit: The Animals, of course.

[mobuto]

26. Forget the Animals

That's Leadbelly's song.

[NormanConquest]

31. Let's add "New York City" to the list, too!

nt

[mobuto]

16. Back in the USSR?

I could find crazier selections.

[grannylib]

19. 'Kashmir' and 'Walking on the Moon'

[BlueEyedSon]

98. OK, I'll second Kashmir.

Gosh, that's "granny music" nowadays. Eeeek!

[grannylib]

108. Well I am a fairly young granny...and the coolest one on the planet,

so don't give me too much shit!! *lol*

[bif]

20. The Motor City's burnin'

About the '67 Riots. Done by the MC5.

[HEyHEY]

56. Black day in july was good too

Gordon Lightfoot

[Beaker]

21. Planet Claire...by the B-52's.

Ahhhahhahhahh

She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light

Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head

Ahhhahhhahhahh

Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars
That shine after 3:30 in the morning
WELL SHE ISN'T

Ahhhahhhahhahhahhahh

[arwalden]

22. Point Me In The Direction Of Albuquerque (Partridge Family)

[arwalden]

23. Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

[pippin]

25. California Dreamin'

. . .Oh! Cass Elliot Mama . . .you were great!

[Bonhomme Richard]

27. American Woman - Guess Who

[Shananigans]

28. What about that Constantinople song?

or isn't that the name?

[ironflange]

29. Kansas City

Kansas City, here I come!

[camero]

34. They got crazy lookin women

and I'ma gonna get me one. :)

[BurtWorm]

40. I think it's "crazy little women."

I feel the urge to start a new thread.

[camero]

43. doh

:dunce:

[reprehensor]

30. Margaritaville. n/t

[pfitz59]

32. McArthur Park

Sing along with me:
"McArthur Park is burning......"

[grannylib]

33. Auggghhhhhhhhhhhhh! Now you've done it! The worst earworm song on

the planet, oh help me....

36. evil evil evil

you had to bring this up?

[myrna minx]

35. 9th and Hennepin by Tom Waits.

The intersection has changed dramatically since the song was written, but a great song, just the same.

AND

Postcard from a Hooker in Minneapolis-also by Tom Waits.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

37. Youngstown, by Bruce Springsteen...

....probably one of my favorite Springsteen songs.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

39. U Mass by the Pixies.

[Whitacre D_WI]

66. "Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons."

Mars is a place.

[PVnRT]

41. No love for Toto? This is a tragedy

I felt the rains down in AF-rica....

[mitchum]

44. # way tie between "Berlin", "Wichita Lineman", "Sweet Home Alabama"

[frylock]

45. a tribe called quest - i left my wallet in el segundo

[felonious thunk]

48. Shit Town - by Live

It's about York, PA. Close to where I grew up, and though York can indeed be Shit Town, it pretty much sums up Central PA.

[Eumenides]

50. Cape Canaveral

by the legendary American Music Club

I should trade my heart in for a watch
'Cause all I do is watch the numbers slip away
My lips silently repeat the countdown
'Cause it's too hard to say

I always knew that you would leave

Do you know where the hell we are
All the birds are too quiet in the trees
Frightened by the sweet things we say to each other
Frightened by the things we make them see

I always knew that you would leave

Like hunger that you always have to feed
Like when Don Rickles' spotlight goes blue
The countdown tells me I'm better off alone
And so empty without you

I always knew that you would leave :cry:

[CPschem]

53. "Via Chicago" by Wilco

[GumboYaYa]

54. Africa by The Neville Brothers....

not to be confused with Africa by Asia...

[mobuto]

58. Hotel California?

The Gypsy Kings' version. I hate the fucking Eagles.

[Snow]

59. "Tears for Mok'po"

I guess you'd have to be attuned to Korean culture to appreciate it, but it's a lovely song - I used to have it memorized. Here's the story:

http://www.pennfamily.org/KSS-USA/971001-1920.htm

"The Tears of Mokpo, lyrics written by Mun Il-sok, set to music by Son Mok-in, sung by Lee Nan-young: The boat song of the ferryman wafts through the air, Samhakdo Island hides deep below the waves, the bride on the wharf with a tear-stained dress, Are they the tears of fare-stained dress, Are they the tears of farewell? The sorrow of Mokpo. 'The Tears of Mokpo' was first sung by the famous singer Lee Nan-young in the 1930s, and it greatly comforted the Korean people under the yoke of Japanese colonial rule. Today, it still enjoys phenomenal national popularity. Famous for the song 'The Tears of Mokpo', Mokpo is located at the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula. The port city was opened to the outside world for foreign residency and trade on October 1, 1897, by imperial edict by Emperor Kojong, and the Mokpo supervisory Office was established to supervise the commercial trade there. "

The opening of the port that they refer to is another of those forced openings, very like the opening of Canton or Nagasaki. TO Kojong's credit, he tried his best to avoid this, and then went with Mokpo, which is down in the southwest corner of the country, rather than Inchon, near the capital. The president who ushered in the new era of elected non-dictator rule in Korea, Kim Daejoong, is from Mokpo. The song is, of course, metaphorical, like the other famous Korean rebel song, Arirang, and as they said above, rather politely, it's an anti-Japanese occupation song. There's a lot of similarities between Britain & Ireland and Japan & Korea.

[arwalden]

60. "Moon River" and "Fly Me To The Moon"

[Snow]

63. "Guantanamera", by Jose Fernandez Diaz. I think I first heard it by

by Pete Seeger & Julian Orbon. Nice poetry, too...

Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma
Chorus:
Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera
Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido
Que busca en el monte amparo
Chorus

[Bake]

64. "Paradise" by John Prine

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
To a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times my memories are worn

And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Aidrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes that we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
They tortured the timbers and stripped all the land
They dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
And they wrote it all down as the progress of man

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul move on up to the Rochester Dam
I'll be halfway to heaven, with Paradise waiting
Just five miles away from wherever I am

And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.


Paradise is the name of a little town in Muhlenberg County.

Bake

[5thGenDemocrat]

93. "Saginaw, Michigan" by Lefty Frizzell

Well, hell -- somebody had to say it. Might as well be someone from Saginaw.
John
Mentioning this here because my grandpa Bill was from Mexico, Kentucky -- not far from Paradise (I think Mexico is in Crittendon County).
Lefty wasn't from Saginaw, but Stevie Wonder and Question Mark and the Mysterians ("96 Tears") are.

[Whitacre D_WI]

67. El Paso.

Marty Robbins RULES!

[Nile]

68. Hotel California

Eagles

[jus_the_facts]

69. Walkin' To New Orleans~Fats Domino

:loveya:

[arwalden]

70. "El Paso"... or "North To Alaska"

[ronnykmarshall]

71. San Francisco

San Francisco open your golden gate .....

[RebelOne]

72. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynard Skynard

[Red_Storm]

73. New York State Of Mind

[arwalden]

75. Tijuana Taxi

[meow mix]

76. Israel - Siouxsie and the Banshees

its kinda cute song too =)

[Mobius]

78. Girl from EpaNima

[geniph]

79. Havana Daydreaming, Jimmy Buffett

Stashed his trash in Ecuador, bought a good suit of clothes.
Flew on up to Mexico, standin' by the shore.
Waiting for some mystery man, to pay him for his time.
Thinkin' about all the money he made,
couldn't help to ease his mind
Havana daydreamin' oh he's just dreamin' his life away.

Daddy shucked that sugar cane,
One day he fell dead.
Jesus had a wanderin' feelin'
Swimmin around in his head.
Sailin' on a midnight boat,
There were no questions asked,
Water's so green and the air was so clean
That he stuck right to his task, Havana daydreamin',
Oh he's just schemin', his life away.

Ceilin' fan stirs the air
Cigar smoke did swirl,
A fragrance on the pillow case
And he thinks about the girl.
Spillin' wine and sharin' good times
She sure could make him smile.
He pays her well but what the hell
He'll be movin' in a little while, Havana daydreamin',
Havana daydreamin'
Oh he'll be dreamin' his life away.

[geniph]

92. I forgot Coast of Marseilles and He Went to Paris

two of Buffett's best ballads:

I sat there on the coast of Marseilles
My thoughts came by like wind through my hand
How good it’d be to feel you again
How good it’d be to feel that way again

Would you be remembering me?
I ask that question time and again
The answer came and haunted me so
I would not want to think it again
No I would not want to think it again

You make it so hard to forget
I haven’t stopped lovin’ you yet

You make it so hard to forget
I haven’t stopped lovin’ you yet

When I left the coast of Marseilles
I hadn’t done what I’d come to do
Spent all the money I’d saved
Still did not get over you
No I still did not get over you


He went to paris lookin’ for answers
To questions that bothered him so
He was impressive, young and aggressive
Savin’ the world on his own

But the warm summer breezes
The french wines and cheeses
Put his ambition at bay
The summers and winters
Scattered like splinters
And four or five years slipped away

Then he went to england, played the piano
And married an actress named kim
They had a fine life, she was a good wife
And bore him a young son named jim

And all of the answers and all of the questions
Locked in his attic one day
’cause he liked the quiet clean country livin’
And twenty more years slipped away

Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady
And left him with only one eye
His body was battered, his whole world was shattered
And all he could do was just cry

While the tears were a-fallin’ he was recallin’
Answers he never found
So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean
And left england without a sound

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin’s
And drinks his green label each day
Writing his memoirs, losin’ his hearin’
But he don’t care what most people say

Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he’ll smile and he’ll say
Jimmy, some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic
But I had a good life all the way

Coda:
And he went to paris lookin’ for answers
To questions that bothered him so

[NightTrain]

80. "Kansas City," Wilbert Harrison, "New York, New York," Frank Sinatra...

Africa - Toto
America The Beautiful - Ray Charles
Back in the U.S.A. - Chuck Berry
Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison
Born In Chicago - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Boston, My Hometown - Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon
Brail - Xavier Cugat
Brooklyn Girls - Robbie Dupree
California Girls - The Beach Boys
Connecticut Love - Michael Jonathan
Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Tony Bennett
I Love L.A. - Randy Newman
Louisiana - Mike Kennedy
Midnight Train To Geogria - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Mississippi - Papa John Phillips
New York Groove - Ace Frehley (sp?)
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
North To Alaska - Johnny Horton
O-H-I-O - The Ohio Players
Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Philadelphia Baby - Charlie Rich
Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John
Poor Little Rhode Island - Dale Hawkins
San Antonio Stroll - Tanya Tucker
Seattle - Perry Como
South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) - Patsy Cline
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson
When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's 40 Below) - Johnny Horton

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

87. Those are nice ones... how about Margaritiville?

[IconoclastIlene]

82. 4th of July, Asbury Park/Springsteen

New Joisey

[LSdemocrat]

83. Beatles - Back in the USSR

[IconoclastIlene]

84. Alabama Song

oh show me the way to the next whiskey bar.

[KamaAina]

85. Blue Hawaii

Theme from "Hawaii Five-O"
Honolulu City Lights (you on the Continent may not have heard this one)
Hawaii Calls (reaching WAY back for that one)
Hawaiian Wedding Song
etc. etc.

[pintobean]

86. some of mine

Chuck Berry - Back In The USA
Albert Hammond - It Never Rains In Southern California
Albert King - Kansas City
aliotta, haynes, and jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive
Amanda Marshall - Birmingham
Ambrosia - Life Beyond LA
Anson Funderburgh - Texas Blues
Atlanta Rhythm Section - Georgia Rhythm, Jukin'-San Antonio Rose & Cold Turkey Tennessee
Babys - California
Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm
Bob Seger - Get Out Of Denver
Brewer & Shipley - Tarkio Road
Cactus - Alaska
Charlie - California & L.A. Dreamer
Charlie Daniels - Birmingham Blues
Chris Rea - Daytona & Texas
David and David - Welcome To the Boomtown
deep purple - Kentucky woman
Diesel - Sausalito Summer night
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed & Alabama Getaway

[pintobean]

97. More throw backs and odd balls

Grinderswitch - Peach County Jamboree & Watermelon Time in Georgia
Eagles - Seven Bridges Road
J Geils Band - Monkey Island
Lynard Skynard - Georgia Peaches, Mississippi Kid & T For Texas
Marc Cohn - Walking In Memphis
Men At Work - Down Under
Mistress - China Lake
Montrose - Space Station #5
mott the hoople - all the way from Memphis & Cleveland Rocks
Mountain - Nantucket Sleigh ride
Nantucket - California
Nazareth - Alcatraz & Shanghai'd in Shanghai
novo combo - city bound e train
Painter - West Coast Woman
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Indian Reservation
rainbow - Gates of Babylon
REO Speedwagon - 157 Riverside Avenue
Robbie Robertson - Showdown at Big Sky & Somewhere Down The Crazy River
Robert Cray - Right Next Door
Rory Gallagher - Out On The Western Plain
Rush - A Passage to Bangkok
Southern Culture On The Skids - Make Mayan A Hawaiian
Stevie ray Vaughn - Third Stone From the Sun
Three Dog Night - Never Been To Spain
Tommy Bolin - Savannah Woman
trooper - Cold, Cold Toronto
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Zephyr - Going Back to Colorado
ZZ Top - Jesus Just Left Chicago

[MAlibdem]

88. WELL I LOVE THAT DIRTY WATER!

OHHHHHH BOSTON YOU'RE MY HOME!


or For Boston by the Dropkick Murphy's

For Boston for Boston, we sing our proud refrain for Boston for Boston 'tis wisdom's earthly fame
for here are all one and our hearts are true and the towers on the heights reach the heavens own blue.
for boston for boston 'til the echoes ring agin!

For Boston for Boston thy glory is our own
for Boston for Boston 'tis here that truth is known
and ever with a right shall our heirs be found 'til time shall be no more and thy work is crowned
for Boston for Boston thy glory is our own!

Gotta love those guys. They routinely yell "there better be no middle-class white kids here!" at their concerts...i always laugh and duck my head, hey, at least im irish, right?

[Red_Storm]

89. New York City Serenade - Springsteen

[IronLionZion]

90. Sweet Home Alabama

[Red_Storm]

91. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?

[Elidor]

94. Mull of Kintyre

O mist rolling in from the sea
My desire is always to be here
O Mull of Kintyre...

Those bagpipes get me every time. :)

[Gildor Inglorion]

104. You're right...

It is the very best song about a place ever! :D

[a_random_joel]

95. Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever

End of Story.

[MrSlayer]

96. Other: Hell!

Many great songs have to do with Hell.

Hell Awaits, South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss, Hell ain't a bad place to be, Highway to Hell, In Torment In Hell and many others.

[Norbert]

100. Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

by the Four Lads or They Might Be Giants.

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul


Words by Jimmy Kennedy
Music by Nat Simon

[kevinam]

101. Doraville, by ARS (Atlanta Rhythm Section).

Okay, the song is from the 70's, I think. Doraville is a little suburb just outside of Atlanta, and I lived there for a year. I always remember the city limits signs saying "Doraville, a good place to live". Well, it wasn't that good. My neighbor kept his rarely used weight bench on his deck. One old lady neighbor was way way nosy. It wasn't all bad. Very convienent to things...Kevin.

[ComerPerro]

102. Albuquerque

sp?

[Leftist78]

105. Jacksonville Skyline

by Whiskeytown

[ChoralScholar]

106. Allentown (Billy Joel)

Quite a great piece of Americana

http://www.lyricsdomain.com/2/billy_joel/allentown.html
----------------------------------------------
Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we're living here in Allentown

But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay

Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown

But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face

Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be getting up today

And it's getting very hard to stay
And we're living here in Allentown

[Red State Rebel]

109. St. Louis Blues