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re: Paging fr33manator: Why is "Baton Rouge" in so many songs?
Posted on 10/30/22 at 1:38 am to Hot Carl
Posted on 10/30/22 at 1:38 am to Hot Carl
quote:
it’s along the Mississippi, but not New Orleans, which is in too many songs, gives you more flexibility than Memphis and its 2 syllables, sounds better that. St. Louis, and who ever wrote anything about Minneapolis?
Johnny Cash’s / Grateful Dead song “Big River” mentions:
St Paul Minnesota
St Louis
Memphis
Baton Rouge
&
New Orleans
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Posted on 10/30/22 at 1:43 am to Rebel
quote:
Johnny Cash’s / Grateful Dead song “Big River”
it's Johnny Cash's song "Big River"
Posted on 10/30/22 at 1:45 am to member12
quote:
Janis Joplin probably made it a cool city to feature in lyrics.
Why would you say that? Me & Bobbie McGee is a Kris Kristofferson song.
Posted on 10/30/22 at 1:46 am to Kafka
Written by Cash.
Made famous by the Dead.
That’s why I mentioned both.
Made famous by the Dead.
That’s why I mentioned both.
Posted on 10/30/22 at 1:48 am to Rebel
quote:Original versionquote:Why would you say that? Me & Bobbie McGee is a Kris Kristofferson song
Janis Joplin probably made it a cool city to feature in lyrics.
Posted on 10/30/22 at 1:49 am to Rebel
quote:I didn't even know they did it
Made famous by the Dead
Posted on 10/30/22 at 1:55 am to Kafka
I hope somebody has mentioned Waylon's song Going to Shreveport.....down to New Ore-leens
Posted on 10/30/22 at 1:56 am to Rebel
quote:What? I've never even heard the Dead version. The most notable other version I know about is The Highwaymen from the first album.
Written by Cash.
Made famous by the Dead.
Now, I DO know the Dead singing about Baton Rouge in "Operator".
Posted on 10/30/22 at 2:01 am to Big Scrub TX
That doesn’t surprise me Big Scrub since you’re so Big Dumb on every board you visit.
Posted on 10/30/22 at 2:02 am to Kafka
Posted on 10/30/22 at 3:02 am to fr33manator
Posted on 10/30/22 at 6:33 am to Kafka
quote:
New York - 161 songs. Los Angeles - 87 songs. California - 68 songs. Hollywood - 66 songs. Miami - 46 songs. New Orleans - 43 songs. Brooklyn - 38 songs. Texas - 29 songs.
These numbers all seem low.
Posted on 10/30/22 at 6:39 am to jbgleason
quote:
Well it's three o'clock in the morning' ya'll
Oh, and I'm biding my time
Give me two more Mr. Waiter
You know I got a whole lot on my mind
Going back to Louisiana,
To that girl left behind
I been to Memphis baby, I been to Kansas City too
Never met a woman who could love me like you do
Going back to Louisiana,
To that girl I left behind
Yeah, she's my kind of woman ya'll
She's just my size
Knocks me out the way she looks me in the eyes
Going back to Louisiana,
To that girl I left behind
She used to live in Shreveport,
But then she moved
Bet you ten to one she's going to Baton Rouge
I'm gonna look her up, if you know what I mean
If I have to go as far as New Orleans
Posted on 10/30/22 at 7:17 am to jbgleason
Memphis is the city mentioned the most in songs as I recall.
Posted on 10/30/22 at 9:02 am to jbgleason
Posted on 10/30/22 at 9:17 pm to member12
Louisiana Rain - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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I may never be the same when I reach Baton Rouge
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I may never be the same when I reach Baton Rouge
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