"Patriotica" 50 songs for 50 states...

[SoCalDem]

I found this a few days too late, but it's still fun:)


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[Mudoria]

1. NC should be

"Carolina In My Mind" by Sweet Baby James Taylor.

[Staph]

2. West Virginia Man ??????

by Willie Nelson and David Alan Coe. The lyrics, posted below, read like that old Enjoli commercial -- "I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never, never let you forget you're a man!"

Why on earth? Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows that the unofficial West Virginia state song is Country Roads. Jeez Louise!



West Virginia Man

Lyrics: David Allan Coe

I can plow a field of forty acres
Feed the chickens, feed the hogs
Fix the drain pipe, pick the guitar
And never lose no time.
Mow the grass, prune the peach trees
Fix that window broken by that kid o mine
Still find the time of an evenin' to go fishin' on the river
Put a fence round my land
Read a story to my baby. I'm a West Virginia man.

Chorus
I work in the coal mine 8 hours a day
Eat supper
Read the paper
Put up 100 bales of hay
Run off a batch of moonshine, relax next to the fan
Chew tobacco, sing a fine song, I'm a West Virgina man.

I can herd 100 head of cattle, chop the fire wood,
Shoe the horses, paint the barn,
Patch the roof to make sure it won't leak
Pick the beans, throw some hay seeds
Check the muskrat traps down by the creek
Before it gets late I can pick a pack of apple that my woman will fry
Take my youngest son out huntin'. I'm a West Virgina man.

Chorus

[Doctor_J]

3. Pssh. Not a single tune from

http://www.chillywinds.com/">Johnny Stew

who wrote tunes about nearly half the states of the union.

[SteppingRazor]

4. For Florida, I would've gone with Mofro's song of the same name.

I remember my grandpa tellin' me
About the early days of Florida
Born a swamp cracker two miles from Granny's Bay
Comin' up the way of the wilderness
No car, phone, or electric light
Yeah just livin' life one day at a time
No newspaper, no war, no strife
Just the elemental keys that provide for life

CHORUS:
Florida I know you're out there hiding from me
You get harder and harder to find
To understand every day she keeps slippin' away
Florida please don't fade on me now

Autumn sun sets morning skies ablaze
The oaks and the pines turn their palms up to the sun
The kind of beauty that hits down in your soul
But still you're hellbent to destroy it all
With Concrete and steel we pave
A road to hell on a land we've killed
So take a good look and remember it now
Cause one day you're gonna wake up and find it gone.

BRIDGE:
Now skyscrapers and superhighways are carving through the heart of Florida
Building subdivisions while the swamps are drained, making room for people and amusement parks (repeat)

It's like watching someone you love die slow
Yeah, they're killing her one piece at a time
I know some fools who think I should let go,
But they've never seen Florida through my eyes.

CHORUS:
I know you're out there hiding from me
You get harder and harder to find
Every day she keeps slipping away
Florida please don't fade on me now

Florida, I know you're out there hiding from me
You get harder and harder to find
Every day she keeps slipping away
Florida please don't fade on me now

[mdmc]

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