From: snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Border song survey
Keywords: Border songs
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:39:29 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University

In article <2392@news.duke.edu> eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK) writes:
>I am in a bit of need.
>
>I hope to get a car soon and would like to have some tapes with songs
>which I could play consecutively when crossing state borders. I'd like
>to get some help since I am not the most knowledgable person on the
>best music tunes to have.
>
>Criteria:
>1) Must mention the state, a city in that state, or some other major
>geographical feature. (Exceptions are given to odd circumstances in
>which the song is appropriate; e.g., Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run"
>for New Jersey since the NJ state legislature wanted it to be its
>state song.) Basically, any association with the state is needed.
>
>2) Must be fun to listen to. I doubt that there are any songs that
>aren't fun to listen to, but the more fun the better.
>
>3) Any additional criteria will be at the discretion of me.
>
>
>WHAT I HAVE SO FAR:
>
>NC:	"Gone to Carolina"	James Taylor
>GA:	"Ramblin' Man"		??? [Need the name]
>	"Georgia on my mind"	(Anyone who sings it)
>AL:	"Sweet Home Alabama"	???
>NJ:	"Born to Run"		Bruce Springsteen
>RI:	"Down Easter Alexa"	Billy Joel
>MD:	"Rockville"		REM
>CA:	"Hotel California"	The Eagles
>LA:	"Deep River Woman"	???	[It's my home state.]
>

Here's some more:

Lake Superior (I think Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ontario border it,
     but I don't have a map handy and I'm not sure):  The Wreck of the Edmund
     Fitzgerald      Gordon Lightfoot

Muscogee (Oklahoma):   We don't smoke Marijuana in Muscogee   
     ? (some country artist (perhaps various country artists))

Wyoming:   Whoopie Ty Aye Oh, get a long little dogies (it's your misfortune
     and none of my own... ...you know WYOMING will be your new home)
     (traditional song, I don't know who recorded it)

Cheyenne, Wyoming:  Goodbye Old Paint (I'm leaving Cheyenne)  (traditional)

Laredo  TX:  Streets of Laredo   (traditional)

Erie Canal, NY:  Erie Canal (I've got a mule, her name is Sal)  (traditional)

GA:  the Devil went down to Georgia   Charlie Daniels Band

Omaha Nebraska:  [I don't know the title, but it's the one where the 
     long-haired country boy gets hassled by red-necks in a bar, and
     says next time he'll go by way of Omaha]  Charlie Daniels Band

Quebec:  Donkey Riding (Have you ever been in Quebec, stowing timber on 
     the deck...)  (traditional)

Ontario:  The song about black flies (...black flies, the little black
     flies,  always a black fly everywhere you go.  I'll die with a black
     fly pickin' my bones, in North Ontario, in North Ontario...)  
     (traditional)

Arkansas:  the Arkansas Traveller (traditional)

Washington DC:  It's a Burgeoise Town     
     Ledbelly [real name:  Hudie Ledbetter]

Washington DC:  Tell me what do they make in Washington  (various artists
     including Michael Cooney)

Is anyone keeping track of which states we have not used yet?

I think I remember Maine, Vermont, Conneticut, Kansas, Iowa, Dakota, and Idaho
have not been used.  Any others?

John
snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu