Lyrical: State Names (Part One)

These are songs that contain States names in the lyrics or title.

“I’ve Been Everywhere” is a rapid-fire novelty song originally written in 1959 by Australian country singer-songwriter Geoff Mack, who crafted it as a tongue-twisting travelogue listing dozens of towns across Australia, but it was later adapted to American geography in 1962 by Hank Snow,

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Tokes (Part One)

“the smell of death surrounds you”

A toke refers to the act of inhaling a puff from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, most commonly associated with smoking cannabis. When someone takes a toke, they inhale the smoke or vapor into their lungs, allowing the active substances—such as nicotine or THC (the psychoactive compound in cannabis)—to be absorbed.

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Vietnam War Protest Songs (Part One)

The whole world’s watching
The whole world’s watching
The whole world’s watching

The Vietnam War, a protracted conflict from 1955 to 1975, began for the United States as it escalated its involvement in the early 1960s, following the Gulf of Tonkin incident[1] in 1964. Over 58,000 U.S. military personnel lost their lives in the war, with hundreds of thousands more wounded.

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