Context ought to matter, but apparently it doesn't. I heard Over the rainbow years before I saw the movie, and always related it to life in a "smoky town with its murky cowl" (Walsall!), like Wouldn't it be lovely (My Fair Lady). It was probably the line "away above the chimney tops" that did it ... there weren't any chimney tops where Dorothy lived! I can well believe that someone would be desperate to get away from life on an isolated farm in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas, where each day is just like thelast and the only change of routine is a tornado that might destroy everything you have and maim or kill you, but OTR is NOT the song! And yet it lives on ...

Sorry -- back to the thread now!
Steve