Imaginary places in song??

Subject: RE: Imaginary places in song??
From: mousethief
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 08:06 PM

I'm not sure the existence of towns in North America called "El Dorado" really puts paid to the question. It's an imaginary town in song and legend (as one says), and going and naming a real town after it doesn't change that, nor make the songs and legends suddenly "about" the real town. They're still about the imaginary town. (Barring somebody writing a tongue-in-cheek song about one of the imitations.)

O..O
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Subject: RE: Imaginary places in song??
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:24 AM

Is Tecumseh Valley a real place?

Subject: RE: Imaginary places in song??
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:31 AM

The Lakes of Pontchartrain (all but one of them).

Subject: RE: Imaginary places in song??
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 06:12 PM

There actually is a Glocamara in Cork. Though the geography in the song is a bit freehand, if you take a look at the map.

Subject: RE: Imaginary places in song??
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 06:51 PM

In the Redgum song:

the rain never falls on the dusty Diamantina

In today's report from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology:

Diamantina River: Minor flooding is occurring at Monkira.

Subject: RE: Imaginary places in song??
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 08:02 PM

I'm not sure if Tecumseh Valley is a real place. There is a
Tecumseh Court, several communities named Tecumseh, and a Mount Tecumseh, but I haven't found a Tecumseh Valley.
It could be fictional.

Subject: RE: Imaginary places in song??
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 10:19 PM

Paradise

Subject: RE: Imaginary places in song??
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:45 AM

Paradise, as mentioned in the John Prine song of the same name, is in Kentucky

http://www.jpshrine.org/picshow/paradise/paradise.html

But maybe Honah Lee?

"Puff, the magic dragon lived by the seaAnd frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee"

Subject: RE: Imaginary places in song??
From: Snuffy
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 12:24 PM

No, Honiley is a real place in Warwickshire, England. Of course the sea has receded quite a bit since Puff's days