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Do you know all these tunes? (Original Post) True Dough Monday OP
Winslow Arizona dweller Monday #1
What's on your mind? True Dough Monday #10
I'm gone dweller Monday #12
I know 13 LA Blue Bengal Monday #2
"you take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll get to niyad Monday #17
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico is from "The Battle of New Orleans" written by Jimmy Driftwood, a teacher KitFox Yesterday #31
Six Days on the Road taxi Yesterday #32
A little short of 80% chowmama Monday #3
Yes, I know every one of those. But Croney Monday #4
Harlem - Take The A Train Ptah Monday #5
Perfect score! Hahaha! 😎 littlemissmartypants Monday #6
Anywhere - I've Been Everywhere Ptah Monday #7
Unsure about the Scotland one... 2naSalit Monday #8
Margaritaville dweller Monday #9
Richmond - Last Train from Poor Valley fargone Monday #11
Took my chances on a big jet plane True Dough Monday #13
Starring in our own late, late show True Dough Monday #14
Blue Bayou Some Day Buzz cook Monday #15
For those of you not familiar with the Scotland reference, you're in for a treat. 3catwoman3 Monday #16
Wow! I knew the song, but I'd never heard of that Australian singer of Celtic songs. I did some highplainsdem Yesterday #30
I know 10. niyad Monday #18
Tennessee? nuxvomica Monday #19
West Virginia by way of country roads wnylib Yesterday #20
Kankake, Memphis, New Orleans on the Illinois Central Railroad wnylib Yesterday #22
Coney Island (vacation) flvegan Yesterday #21
Surf City 10 Turtle Day Yesterday #23
It's early morning for me here Niagara Yesterday #24
San Francisco WestMichRad Yesterday #25
New York...Stuck in Lodi again. MiHale Yesterday #26
I'm taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River Line Pobeka Yesterday #27
Hop on the bus, Gus True Dough Yesterday #28
Every one. highplainsdem Yesterday #29
Sure, and you can hitch a ride ... surrealAmerican Yesterday #33

niyad

(132,440 posts)
17. "you take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll get to
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 11:26 PM
Monday

Scotland before you. ."

See post 16 for the video

KitFox

(566 posts)
31. On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico is from "The Battle of New Orleans" written by Jimmy Driftwood, a teacher
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 11:38 AM
Yesterday

trying to get his students interested in history. Home tonight is from Dave Dudley’s truck driving song “ Six Days on the Road”. Sometimes I wonder how I have accumulated strange trivia and that surprisingly I recall it!😅

True Dough

(26,667 posts)
13. Took my chances on a big jet plane
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:59 PM
Monday

Never let 'em tell you that they're all the same...

Going to California with an achin' in my heart.

3catwoman3

(29,404 posts)
16. For those of you not familiar with the Scotland reference, you're in for a treat.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 11:00 PM
Monday
&list=RDgb8AGuD2uOI&start_radio=1




And I'm only sure of 11

highplainsdem

(62,135 posts)
30. Wow! I knew the song, but I'd never heard of that Australian singer of Celtic songs. I did some
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 11:12 AM
Yesterday

googling and listened to more of her music yesterday. She's incredible.




Re that song you posted - I hadn't known its history, but I saw people responding on YouTube post about it. And this is what Wikipedia says:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Banks_o%27_Loch_Lomond

The song has often been dated to 1746, and it has long been associated with the Jacobite rebellion. In December 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie retreated to Scotland, and the lyrics have been interpreted as a lament of the march.[4] One of the soldiers rues his sacrifice for the king.[5] In Celtic mythology, the "low road" was a fairy route for a soldier's soul to return home when killed abroad.[6]

Another common interpretation is that the chorus are the final words spoken by one of the Jacobite rebels prior to his execution, perhaps in Carlisle where dozens of rebels were executed.[7][8]: 276  He sees his lover at the gallows and tells her they will meet again in Scotland, albeit by different routes.[9] Ironically, the song became one of a handful of folk signifiers for British unity as the nation expanded its empire.[10]

One of the earliest sheet music printings of the ballad was in 1840 by Paterson and Sons in Edinburgh. It was titled "Bonnie Loch Loman" and credited to "a lady" with arrangements by Finlay Dunn and John Thomson. Lady John Scott was often cited as the composer of "Loch Lomond", but she only transcribed the melody and lyrics after hearing it sung by a boy in the Edinburgh streets.[11] In his 1898 novel Wild Eelin, William Black has the title character, Eelin MacDonald, directly refute the idea that a street urchin in Edinburgh would ever sing the song, dismissing it as "spurious".[12]: 86–7 

The actual composer is unknown. Precedents for the tune have been found in several other folk songs, such as the Danish/Faroese tune "Dankonning lod gribe en havfrue fin" (The Dane-King Captured a Mermaid).[13] "Loch Lomond" along with "The Oak and the Ash" also bear a resemblance to "Godesses", a tune in John Playford's 1651 compilation The Dancing Master.[14][15]

wnylib

(26,009 posts)
20. West Virginia by way of country roads
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 12:34 AM
Yesterday

The river -- Proud Mary

I know all but 2 in the OP.

Niagara

(11,850 posts)
24. It's early morning for me here
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 07:42 AM
Yesterday

A few fun facts:




Since it's early morning I can recognize a few songs but I'm only beginning my caffeine intake.


I was going to submit the song Yellow Submarine for a Lounge response some time back and I forgot the name of the song. *sigh*


Eddie Money is one of my favorite male singers.


I can't listen to the song Margaritaville while I'm driving at all because it makes me feel intoxicated.


One of my favorites songs is Down in Mexico and is never given credit, ever.

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Good morning everyone!



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