This song has a pleasant, catchy jug-band-like sound.

You can hear the recording from which I transcribed this in this podcast. Skip to 1:17 if you don't want to hear the interview.


I LIKE IT IN DULUTH
Written by John Berquist
As recorded by The Moose Wallow Ramblers on "The Moose Wallow Ramblers" (1976) – with John Berquist, lead singer.

I been all around the world; I even been to the tropical isle
Where the native girls in long dark curls wear nothin' but a smile,
And I been across the ocean in a dugout canoe.
I flew to Ontonagon in a B-52,
And to tell you the truth, I like it in Duluth.

We get summer ev'ry year for two weeks in July.
The rest of the time, it's cold and freezin'; the snow falls from the sky,
But where else in this entire nation
Can you find cheaper refrigeration?
To tell you the truth, I like it in Duluth.

You can have Bemidji and the rusty dusty Range,
Babbitt and Aurora, all the way to Coleraine;
And you can have those cities,
Minneapolis and Saint Paul,
'Cause, to tell you the truth, I like it in Duluth.

I got a girl in Morgan Park and one up on the Heights,
And a sweet little chickie in Fond du Lac I see on Wednesday nights,
And a big ol' mama out in Eloise(?).
Lord, she knows just what to squeeze!
And to tell you the truth, I like it in Duluth.

I been all around the world; I even been to the tropical isle
Where the native girls in long dark curls wear nothin' but a smile,
And I been across the ocean in a birch-bark canoe.
I flew to Ontonagon in my B-52,
But to tell you the truth, I like it in Duluth.
Yes, indeed I do!
And to tell you the truth, I like it in Duluth.

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"Ontonagon" is somewhat ambiguous; he might be trying to say "Okanagan" but that's much farther away than Ontonagon—and the initial "O" is pronounced differently. (Actually, it sounds like "Onctonagon" or "Octonagon," but I am unable to locate a place that matches that pronunciation.)

I have also failed to locate any place called "Eloise" that's near Duluth.

There is another recording by Father Hennepin.