Best Song That Mentions A Swing State

[nyhuskyfan]

Tennessee isn't really a swing state right now, I gather, but had to add that last one...

[CanuckAmok]

1. "My Girlfriend's Girlftiend" - Type O Negative

Oh....sorry, I thought you said "SwingING State"...

[Liberal_Andy]

2. OHIO Go Neil!

:smoke:

[Lefty48197]

3. America by Simon and Garfunkel

"Michigan seems like a dream to me now. It took me four days to hitchike from Saginaw..."

[bloodyjack]

4. "Ohio River Boat Song"

Yes.

[FDRrocks]

5. 30,000 Pounds Of Bananas

"It was just after dark when the truck started down
the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds (hit it Big John) of bananas. "

NEPA What!

[LDS Jock]

6. I've never heard of any of these songs

[nyhuskyfan]

7. Most are obscure songs

The artists are well known, but most of the songs aren't. Ohio ("four dead in Ohio" -- about the Kent State shooting) and Meet Virginia might be the only well-known ones on the list. I can't say I've ever heard Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota or the Public Enemy song. I saw that on a google search and included it, felt I had to -- since Chuck D is a regular host on Air America.

[CAcyclist]

8. My City Was Gone

by the Pretenders (Chrissie Hynd)


"way to go, Ohio..."

[JohnKleeb]

9. all are pretty good but I like

Who'll stop the rain by CCR

"I went down old virginia"

[On the Road]

10. "Sweet Virginia" by the Rolling Stones

Contains my personal theme: "Got to scrape that shit right off your shoes"

[sleepyhead]

11. Pennsylvania 6- 5000

Oh lord, I am old.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Saginaw, Michigan. Love that song...

:hi:

[Kire]

13. Pennsylvania Polka?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

14. Weird Al is awesome!

[skygazer]

15. "Ohio" is a great song

but Springsteen's "Youngstown" is better.

Here in north east Ohio
Back in eighteen-o-three
James and Danny Heaton
Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek
They built a blast furnace
Here along the shore
And they made the cannon balls
That helped the union win the war

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy worked the furnaces
Kept 'em hotter than hell
I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer
A job that'd suit the devil as well
Taconite, coke and limestone
Fed my children and made my pay
Then smokestacks reachin' like the arms of god
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy come on the 0hio works
When he come home from world war two
Now the yards just scrap and rubble
He said, "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do"
These mills they built the tanks and bombs
That won this country's wars
We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam
Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

From the Monongahela valley
To the Mesabi iron range
To the coal mines of Appalacchia
The story's always the same
Seven-hundred tons of metal a day
Now sir you tell me the world’s changed
Once I made you rich enough
Rich enough to forget my name

In Youngstown
In Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

When I die I don't want no part of heaven
I would not do heavens work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell

[Jade Fox]

16. Rocky Mountain High. Oh come on, you know you like it!

Rocky mountain high
In Colorado