Songs Describing Places in Absurdly Idealized Terms

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Went to Mull of Kintyre once and whilst it wasn't terrible my desire wasn't always to be there. Macca never mentioned the mosquitos.

Potential sub-thread here of places that are mistaken for somewhere else due to a song or other reference. Tell anyone of a certain age you're going to, or have been to (the island of) Mull and they'll inevitably ask "Mull of Kintyre?" or if you are really unlucky, start singing it.

[Jah Womble]

Someone younger might ask whether it genuinely has a historical society.

(I'm only saying 'might' though.)

[G-Man]

Germans might ask if you took out the rubbish (allowing for British disregard for umlauts).

[Sporting]

Umlauts are not possible here any more.

[Sits]

In San Jose, they’ve got a lot of space haven’t they?

[Sits]

And when Tom Jones sings of that green green grass of home, is there much in “Portalbot”?

[G-Man]

Well, it was written by Curly Putman. Looking up on Wiki where he was born, I found that it was in Princeton, Alalabama. And opening the link to that place, there was a photo that included a patch of lawn which is indeed quite green. Not much of an oak tree though.

[Sits]

Top work G-Man

[MsD]

Now I’m thinking Day Trip to Bangor may be on a par with Ode to Billy Joe for a poignant non-telling of a secret tale of suffering. What was really going on with Elsie? Was she pregnant?

[Jah Womble]

Maybe so, although the narrator’s very quick to tell us all that it was the motion of the wheels turning - nothing more. Perhaps Elsie wasn’t yet ready to go public.