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- From: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Songs containing states
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 14:17:18 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
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- (Please excuse our mess. We are repairing our apostrophe/quote key.
- We apologize for any inconvenience...)
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- I think state songs (Beautiful Nebraska) and school songs (On
- Wisconsin) are cheating.
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- There is a song about a pony named Wildfire which mentions
- a cold Nebraska night, and a James Taylor song in which he
- wants to leave the Nebraska town he is in (imagine that).
-
- Kansas City Star (Roger Miller)
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- ...Michigan seems like a dream to me now..
- ...counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike...Paul Simon
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- Indiana wants me, Lord I cant go back there..???
- Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny sing ..And what Im pinin fors
- a yellow moon thats shiiiiiinin on a little red barn on a
- farm down a-Indiana way-ayayay
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- Theres Missippi Delta Blues by Leon Redbone.
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- Kaptain Kangaroo once played a song that went something like
- All I own, all I owe, I owe Iowa
- I owe Iowa all I owe and all I own...
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- bart
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