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Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??

26 Nov 01 - 11:20 PM (#598211)
Subject: req: A is for Albuquerque
From: GUEST,Cherie Wescott

My grandmother used to sing me a song and I'm unsure of the title.It was about US cities and went in ABC order. I would love the title and lyrics if anyone knows it. All I can remember is something like

Does that sound familiar to anyone?

27 Nov 01 - 02:16 PM (#598613)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: Mrrzy

Never heard of it but I like it! Somebody must know something... have you tried PMing the real experts? Oh, no, I just saw you're a Guest. Join us, do!

27 Nov 01 - 02:33 PM (#598631)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: MMario

no results on google that I could find.

28 Nov 01 - 02:05 PM (#599512)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: Mrrzy

I've asked my real-life folky friend, he says something about it sounds familiar and he'll dig... so wait a bit... it may yet surface.

28 Nov 01 - 10:18 PM (#599868)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: GUEST,Guest Cherie Wescott

Thanks for the encouragement. I'll keep searching.

29 Nov 01 - 12:37 AM (#599967)
Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

I believe you may be looking for one of my favorites here at the D.T. I've Been Everywhere

It is found at http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3109

And a small portion goes like this:

I've been everywhere man, I've been everywhere man
Crossed the deserts bare man, I've breathed the mountain air man
Of travel I've had my share man,
I've been everywhere

I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota,
Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota,
Wichita, Tulsa, Ottowa, Oklahoma,
Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, LaPaloma,
Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo,
Tocopilla, Barranquilla, and Padilla, I'm a killer

I've been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana,
Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana,
Monterey, Ferriday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa,
Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Okaloosa,
Tennessee, Hennesey, Chicopee, Spirit Lake,
Grand Lake, Devils Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

29 Nov 01 - 03:19 AM (#600021)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: masato sakurai

Hank Snow's "I've Been Everywhere" is in Lea's Country Classics site.
~Masato

29 Nov 01 - 06:45 PM (#600564)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: GUEST,Guest: Cherie Wescott

Thanks. I'm sure that's not it though. I think "A" may have been for Anapolis though rather than Albuquerque.

30 Nov 01 - 12:17 AM (#600691)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

Dear Cherie,

I'll tap into friends this weekend and see what we can up with.

Given the nature of your "remembered lyrics" it appears to be more of a ballad in the style of Fish of the See rather than the recitative I recall from Everywhere.

04 Dec 01 - 09:50 PM (#603894)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: GUEST,Guest: Cherie Wescott

No luck over the weekend? Any ideas at all where else I can try?

09 Dec 01 - 12:42 PM (#606746)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: GUEST,Cherie Wescott

If it helps, I think it might be from the 1920's

30 Aug 12 - 08:27 PM (#3397859)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help please Alphabet/city song??
From: Joe Offer

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