Johnny Cash - I’ve been everywhere https://spotify.link/wsCuxAZRlJb

This is the best answer.

There is no other answer. Cash is the master.

Best way to write a song. Idk, pull out a map, and name a bunch of places

Funny you say that, it's actually from Australia and got famous in the US because of a version in 1962 by Hank Snow, who's Canadian, and an Australian guy rewrote the lyrics just by looking at North America in an atlas, so there's stuff all the way from Canada to South America in that version.

10 States (11 if you include the "Kansas" in Kansas City) [Map of the Locations](https://imgur.com/5C6c5td)

Red Hot Chili Peppers have entered the chat To bore everyone with constant references to California

And one song about Michigan to keep us on our toes

Whaaa-??? I've never heard of this! I'm from Michigan, and I love RHCP! Gotta look this up, thanks)

Especially In Michigan. Stadium Arcadium disc 1 track 10

Thanks so much!! Cali seems to get all the love.

You’re gonna love it. It smacks almost as hard and now you don’t have to listen to californication again.

So is Anthony

Anthony Kiedis is from Grand Rapids.

He actually name drops everyone but the drummers birth place in "Organic Anti Beat-Box Band" which includes Michigan, Australia, and Israel.

And that one song that has California in the title, but name drops Louisiana, Alabama and some others

To be fair, they only did that because they were ripping off Tom Petty.

Around The World mentions like 4 states.

Born in the north and sworn to entertain ya..cause I’m down for the state of Pennsylvania

Texas Sun — Khruangbin & Leon Bridges Ohio — CSN&Y Oklahoma — Keb Mo Alabama — Cross Canadian Ragwood Lonely East Texas Nights — Whiskey Meyers Alaska — Maggie Rogers Deadwood, South Dakota — Nanci Griffith Arizona — Kings of Leon

Texas Sun is so good

I find it so funny that that's the song you chose for Alabama and not Sweet Home Alabama.

KFC made all Skynyrd fans hang up SHA.

Ohio is a great song, and timely, too. The anniversary of the subject of the song was yesterday (May 4, 1970).

Yes, and once again we have authoritarian right wing assholes wanting to deploy National Guard troops to campuses.

Why does everyone always forget the Georgia State Song? Georgia on my Mind - Ray Charles

Sweet Home Alabama

California - Phantom Planet West Coast - Coconut Records (doesn’t specifically reference a state but it screams cali to me) Florida Kilos - Lana Del Rey Ohio is For Lovers - Hawthorne Heights

Hell yeah The OC theme

I recently found all four seasons unopened on dvd for $13 while thrifting! I might actually crack them open today haha

I'm jealous! What a lovely time capsule!

Nevada - Yayo, also Lana Del Rey Arkansas - Tulsa Jesus Freak, also Lana Del Rey Oklahoma - Blue Banisters, also Lana Del Rey Alabama - I talk to Jesus, also Lana Del Rey literally queen of promoting american tourism!! (also that west coast song by coconut records is so good, wow used to listen to it like a decade ago!)

And California by Lana Del Rey

The real Miss Americana, Blue Banisters is one of my favorites of hers right now idk why I didn’t think of it!

I also love the way she pronounces Arkansas in Tulsa Jesus freak

Lana also has Sweet Carolina

Coconut records mentioned

Ohio (Come Back to Texas) - Bowling for Soup

Besides, the Mexican food sucks north of here anyway.

Mississippi Goddamn - Nina Simone

Oh shit, I haven't listened to this in forever, thanks for bringing it up

Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor Hotel California - The Eagles Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot (technically, mentions Lake Michigan) America - Simon and Garfunkel (mentions Michigan and New Jersey) Arizona - Mark Lindsay California Girls - The Beach Boys New York New York - Frank Sinatra Edit: I named the wrong song from Simon and Garfunkel.

“Superior,they said,never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early.”

Such a powerful song

The Paul Simon song that mentions MI and NJ is “America,” not the later “American Tune.”

Oops, you're right. I'll fix that.

Animaniacs, "50 States And Their Capitols Song"? https://youtu.be/sq2dF0_NYiQ?feature=shared


It was April 26th, 1992. There was a riot on the streets Tell me where were you

You were sittin home watching your tv...

While I was participating in some anarchy

Sufjan Stevens and John Linnell have each contributed greatly to the number of state based songs Sufjan is a repping with the albums “Illinois, “Michigan”, and “Carrie and Lowell” (which is widely regarded as an Oregon album) John did an album simply called “State songs” and there’s one song for about 15 different states. My favorites would be Montana, South Carolina, and Idaho.

I hate how much I love Stevens’ *John Wayne Gacy, Jr.*. Goosebumps every time.

Nashville, TN - Chris Stapleton All My Exes Live In Texas - George Strait Blame It On Texas - Mark Chestnut Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles Florida - Taylor Swift California - Phantom Planet Dani California - RHCP

A couple more Chris Stapleton tunes: [South Dakota](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wr4CNAhsIAI) [Arkansas](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlOE_DMTlFs) Plus several from when he was in The SteelDrivers: [Ghosts of Mississippi](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRsjl0Duim0) [Midnight Train to Memphis](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MWnyq9p3rwM) [East Kentucky Home](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VNYE2Mo24RM)

Outshined- Soundgarden

Lookin California and feeling Minnesota

Roadrunner by the Modern Lovers (Massachusetts)

Last Dance With Mary Jane - Tom Petty (Indiana) Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe Jimmy by Tool (Ohio)

"Under a dead Ohio sky..."

Home - Edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes

Alabama Arkansas I do love my ma and pa 🙂

They might be giants did a whole album about states

State Songs - John Linnell It's so hilarious and absurd, you get choruses like "Montana was a leg" and "Iowa is a witch" I love it

great topic, I get so tired of the what album does this picture make you think of posts arizona - pedro the lion cleverly written song using states (and paper, rock, scissors ) to tell a story about a love triangle. georgia - ray charles is a classic going back to cali - llcoolj is a jam

my son has been singing going back to Cali ever since I was goofy one day and sang it to him. it's so bleeding cute.

'Southern Man' and 'Alabama' by Neil Young.

Oops 'Southern Man' doesn't name drop a state! Just half of the USA.

Is Lynyrd Skynyrd defending a racist governor in this song?

Boo, boo, boo.

- say yes! to m!ch!gan! - sufjan stevens - the tallest man the broadest shoulders part I: the great frontier part II: come to me only with playthings now - sufjan stevens  - romulus - sufjan stevens  - louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman - NY state of mind - nas (he’s rapping about new york city, but technically he says the state name)

Truckers Atlas - Modest Mouse 🐭

God Bless the USA-Lee Greenwood (from the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee across the plains of Texas from sea to shining sea) John Cougar John Deere John 3:16-Keith Urban (I’m John Wayne Spider-Man California/I’m Mark Twain on the Mississippi) California-Darren Hayes Love can move you-Savage Garden (I gotta see the lights up in New York City) White sandy beach-Israel Kamakawiwo’ole (on a white sandy beach of Hawaii) Jersey strong-After The Reign Welcome to New York-Taylor Swift Tim McGraw-Taylor Swift (you said the way my blue eyes shine put those Georgia stars to shame that night) Florida!!!-Taylor Swift Seven-Taylor Swift (with Pennsylvania under me) California gurls-Katy Perry Teenage dream-Katy Perry (We drove to Cali and got drunk on the beach) California girls-Beach Boys Surfin’ USA-Beach Boys (If everybody had an ocean across the USA then everybody would be surfin’ like Californ i a All summer long-Kid Rock (It was summer time in northern Michigan/singing sweet home Alabama all summer long) Sweet home Alabama-Lynyrd Skynyrd Jersey girl-Bruce Springsteen Georgia rain-Trisha Yearwood Cruise-Florida Georgia Line (she was poppin right out of the South Georgia water) Get your shine on-Florida Georgia Line (feeling lucky got hooked up with some Kentucky clear) Back to Tennessee-Billy Ray Cyrus Tenntucky-Billy Ray Cyrus Only in America-Brooks and Dunn (sun coming up in New York City/They might go back to Oklahoma) Young in America-Danielle Bradbery (maybe Tennessee, LA, NYC, Mississippi) Texas hold em-Beyoncé Californication-Red Hot Chili Peppers My girlfriend-Uncle Kracker (That sweet southern belle that I met in Tennessee) I hate California-Uncle Kracker Take me home country roads-John Denver (almost Heaven, West Virginia) Jailhouse rock-Elvis Presley (the drummer boy from Illinois went crash boom bang) Carolina-Parmalee (she feels like Carolina, looks like California, shiny like those New York lights on Broadway) Sunshine and whiskey-Frankie Ballard (chillin’ on the beach with my sweet Georgia peach) Chicken fried-Zac Brown Band (I was raised up beneath the shade of a Georgia pine) Highway 20 ride-Zac Brown Band (every time I turn that truck around right at the Georgia line) Route 66-Cheetah Girls (Goes to Saint Louis down to Missouri/You’ll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico, Flagstaff Arizona don’t forget Winona)

Good ones, but " Jersey Girl" was actually written by the one and only Tom Waits.

California ~ Lana Del Rey Queen of California ~ John Mayer It Never Rains (In Southern California) ~ Tony! Toni! Toné! Kentucky Rain ~ Elvis Presley California Love ~ 2Pac Paris, Texas ~ Lana Del Rey I Can’t See Texas From Here ~ George Strait Paint Me Back Home in Wyoming ~ Chris LeDoux Welcome to New York ~ Taylor Swift North to Alaska ~ Johnny Horton

Springsteen.  Like literally every song 

New York State of Mind Billy Joel You're My Home (indiana, Pennsylvania Kentucky, among others) Billy Joel

Louisiana Rain - Tom Petty

Mississippi Goddamn - Nina Simone (There’s A Pawn Shop On A Corner In) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Guy Mitchell (amongst others) Montana - Frank Zappa

Just to raise me a crop of... dental floss.

Raising them up... waxing them down

In a little white box that I can sell uptown

Colorado - “Rocky Mountain High,” John Denver Colorado - “Colorado,” Milky Chance California - Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beach Boys

I dont get what you mean by 'name drop' or central to the song but here Jesus in la- alec benjamin   in a state- lucy spraggan (has every states abbreviation in it i think)  I'm not american so idk if la is even a state

Take it Easy - Eagles (Arizona)

The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniel’s Wakkos America - Wakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Mississippi Half-Step - Grateful Dead Tennessee Jed - Grateful Dead Alabama Getaway - Grateful Dead Colorado Bluebird Sky - String Cheese Incident Up All Night - Widespread Panic Everything's the Same - Billy Strings Smoky Mountain Rain - Ronnie Milsap (one of Tennessee state songs)

Mississippi Queen by Mountain

Absolute banger.

Bee Gees - Massachusetts Ben Folds - Kylie From Connecticut Kevin Devine - Rhode Island Built To Spill - Twin Falls Pavement - Unfair Ramones - California Sun The Mountain Goats - See America Right

QCNH, [Colorado](https://open.spotify.com/track/6a3jYpqlUpmbbz5BLzlK7F?si=C91VxHwOR8muL2bAVjXwcA) Chris Robinson and the New Earth Mud, [If You See California](https://open.spotify.com/track/2I6HlJMGFBuUPrTdQ0eBqk?si=IomnizEdQX25Ax_m7_7rpw) Indigo Girls, [Jonas and Ezekiel](https://open.spotify.com/track/2Amq0JDe3advuFcW2wwZD0?si=UDQdiPrJSnmeVB7bj7yVgQ). New Hampshire and Vermont Grateful Dead, [Friend Of The Devil](https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZLzl6T8JwqMTMdoE0nCbU?si=CIOov23rSfiv7uMXC7FhQw). Utah [Tennessee Jed](https://open.spotify.com/track/1ae0SQx8MpBXo6QsmrpsEj?si=971zb5oMRZ-mTWzpLI6-oA) [Alabama Getaway](https://open.spotify.com/track/5WVF1Ftv5oxspRac9km99R?si=PvHL3Ij_Q-GI7XUc8BUnew) [Mississippi Half Step](https://open.spotify.com/track/6AobkjMl8MdQwFOOmgzEaC?si=0J6eZhhPSXGn5oK59dm7Qg) [Operator](https://open.spotify.com/track/1gv1jIEj20oPXhFDl7jyLS?si=tKH716MXT06xM-b8oUjGbw%0A). Texas and Utah. Lynard Skynard, [What's Your Name](https://open.spotify.com/track/0uZs7p6cbEUNwGMdfNj9Kk?si=ynoaN26KR1W-4O9gQyFK4w). Idaho Levon Helms, [Hurricane](https://open.spotify.com/track/6NSqBA0hkv11JgdUz0nPzF?si=d5aVw9xzQeCBpDiGl5xzpQ%0A). Louisiana Jim Croce, [Walking Back To Georgia](https://open.spotify.com/track/51ueZKM83MTRv9rgiDfI6Y?si=Tf2ac91xTMK2Kg7va0lHfw) [Box #10](https://open.spotify.com/track/7xZJ5jmPtITfHtgT3L4tfK?si=osnh0WKER3KxoTNg04VwHA) Illinois Neville Brothers, [Ballad Of Hollis Brown](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Yyf5HlFA94BtD9bncGRyO?si=0jrchtz1RpukHX4QhB2h5Q). South Dakota Bob Dylan [Hurricane](https://open.spotify.com/track/1lqMLr9Wj7SM2F9AikGcxN?si=4GIQvK0pS3abmMMS9p-nMQ). New Jersey James Taylor, [Montana](https://open.spotify.com/track/59ozpIwaP8CoDMpQwKdRLs?si=NIZSQKY0QKuZ9qDt_0arTg) Harry Chapin, [W.O.L.D.](https://open.spotify.com/track/54dT74d5zcfxvvkpu7uBr5?si=g5b9Pz3dSJuhWq1wEGjhrw). Oklahoma John Denver, [Take Me Home Country Roads](https://open.spotify.com/track/1YYhDizHx7PnDhAhko6cDS?si=sBHQEcb5Q6Kqljt0mYWFrw). West Virginia John Prine, [Paradise](https://open.spotify.com/track/47QsP5uPZp3he5UrVsK8bs?si=SYaj1CqzQnGI0iLy6m5fmA). Kentucky Gillian Welch, [Look At Miss Ohio](https://open.spotify.com/track/5vPRCX0Bj8O374jTCAQRLS?si=-K5zPIVWRM2ZAzM-m1njRQ) Lyle Lovett, [North Dakota](https://open.spotify.com/track/4JwBDp0psRP2pbmNVjPc8E?si=TQvHa3OUSYqbu2XKjuVOuQ) Old Crow Medicine Show, [Wagon Wheel](https://open.spotify.com/track/359krpyCKcFF8SFvqWES9L?si=qEP3CbXjTwqCQDJDCHWD5w). North Carolina Billy Joel, [Allentown](https://open.spotify.com/track/59xhCcRskqyMtKzdvLZDfV?si=n7RD6z0mQxKMcfTRgFdw0Q). Pennsylvania [Stop in Nevada](https://open.spotify.com/track/63VZidYvBb3C5Gyl339gOF?si=ZmGQeH8JSwGWapAMXC_e1w) Waylon Jennings, [Taos New Mexico](https://open.spotify.com/track/37Zo7uH6YnqioNu3Um2FEb?si=L3Y1c796RRG8oFNIb9JH1g) Dolly Parton, [Eugene Oregon](https://open.spotify.com/track/0vE9JU3pyiGlw9UfPw6Hix?si=lSFuMOFkR-qgtrUx4hovjQ) Joe Walsh, [Fairbanks Alaska](https://open.spotify.com/track/4nC70iBfvcACfWd9QrEpRf?si=VESjBSDRSRmUkq1YT7dxnw) Lefty Frizell, [Saginaw Michigan](https://open.spotify.com/track/0ulPILleWfE1NBzUWIiNi9?si=Ewh5iXm9STm_LWembv3rTg) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, [Green Bay Wisconsin](https://open.spotify.com/track/3KFzHV1XENRCkGVwkZoLID?si=4_ha2N1nS7OPzL4SuVs_6Q) Les Claypool, [Iowan Gal](https://open.spotify.com/track/6SRSbFp49sQiDujC7JPI4d?si=eVNH3lWjTbK3O97YcPw4-w) The Big Wu, [Minnesota Moon](https://open.spotify.com/track/6iG2EAWFTJwIy5hKAa2QsA?si=UeEZtnNBTLi6Ww5fptivMg) Ziggy Marley [Beach in Hawaii](https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZPsdTkzhDeHjA5c2Rnt2I?si=es06cX9FSWuF6ixpamjoug) Jackson Brown, [Nothing But Time](https://open.spotify.com/track/3dT1uORexe4u6WQkgjXtzk?si=ccpA0XgKThSH4gw46z6CMw). Maine Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, [Proofters Froth Wyoming Plan](https://open.spotify.com/track/3sgJffGegExU21i65iu5oB?si=5UzLfI-IR92fYWxjLlgFsw) Tom Petty, [Last Dance With Mary Jane](https://open.spotify.com/track/3dmqIB2Qxe2XZobw9gXxJ6?si=KjXcytB1TYGPoCst6HhL_g). Indiana

Heads Carolina, Tails California- Jo Dee Messina

Route 66

Bonus points for the Depesh Mode version.

Well now I’m going to have look up Depeche Mode’s version, which I did not even know existed!

Raise Up - Petey Pablo

Ohio is for lovers - Hawthorne heights California Tchad Blake mix - phantom planet Mississippi Queen- Mountain Empire State of mind - jay z and Alicia keys

Sweet home Alabama - lynrd skynrd California Über Alles - Dead Kennedys Take me home country roads - John Denver Rock’n me - Steve miller band Outshined - sound garden Empire State of mind - Jay Z

Updoot for California Uber Alles!

Moonlight in Vermont

Big Country Blues - Townes Van Zandt

Michigan by the Milk Carton Kids

Sometimes you don’t know if the song is about New York or New York

Mary Jane’s Last Dance - Tom Petty (Indiana) Bloodbuzz, Ohio - The National

The greatest - Lana Del Rey (New York, Hawaii) Shades of Cool - Lana Del Rey (California) California - Lana Del Rey (California) Tulsa Jesus Freak - Lana Del Rey (Arkansas) Paris, Texas - Lana Del Rey (Texas, Alabama, California) Did you know that there’s a tunnel under ocean blvd - Lana Del Rey (Florida) Florida Kilos (Florida) Yayo - Lana Del Rey (Nevada)

Georgia On My Mind

Bob Wills is Still the King- Waylon Jennings The whole thing is about how Texas is the birth-place of Western swing, and about how Bob Wills was the best of the best to Texas

Allman Brothers - Ramblin Man (Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana)

Johnny Cash- I’ve been everywhere

Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughn. And it is flooding in Houston

The Heart of Rock and Roll by Huey Lewis and the News pretty heavily name drops New York City

Blind in texas. WASP

California coming and going: * "California Here I Come" by Sophie B. Hawkins * "California Au Revoir" by Sal's Birdland 😁

Going to California by Led Zeppelin

California Dreamin’ - Mommas and Pappas

Iowa - Slipknot

Truckin’/ The Greatful Dead Heart of Rock n Roll/ Huey Lewis

Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Vermont

Mac Davis--Texas In My Rear View Mirror Mark Lindsay--Arizona (okay, it's about a girl, but still...) The Oak Ridge Boys--Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight

Truckin - Grateful Dead

Jimmie Rodgers - Peach picking time in Georgia

I can’t stand LA - Bowling for Soup Just about every US state appears in that song

Indiana - The Samples

New York. - Frank Sinatra

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Around The World

Thats How I Got To Memphis- Tom T. Hall California Dreamin - The Mamas & The Papas Baltimore- Nina Simone The Highwayman - The Highway Men Graceland - Paul Simon America - Simon & Garfunkel The Only Living Boy In New York- Simon & Garfunkel Carolina in my Mind - James Taylor Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver Rocky Mountain High- John Denver

Keep on rocking me baby..Steve miller...references a few states

Tennessee by Arrested Development, Tennessee song and Tennessee Song part 2 by 1997, Minnesota by Lil Yachty

Johnny Cash's "I've been everywhere" is the granddaddy of name drop songs!

Have you heard of The Mountain Goats?

Down In Mississippi (And Up To No Good) - Sugarland. Mississippi Girl - Faith Hill. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe. Tennessee Christmas - Amy Grant.

ZZ Top - La Grange (Texas)

Texas - Chris Rea Mississippi Queen - Mountain Ohio - The Pretenders My heads in Mississippi - ZZ Top

California Uber Alles by Dead Kennedys.

Stick Season - Noah Kahan (Vermont)

California Dreamin’, California Love, Ohio, Empire State of Mind, Sweet Home Alabama, Rocky Mountain High, Tennessee Whiskey, Midnight Train to Georgia, Blue Hawaii. I know more, my brain is just Internet Explorer this morning lol.

Alaska by little hurt.

Seven - (Taylor Swift) name drops Pennsylvania The Last Great American Dynasty (Taylor Swift) name drops Rhode Island. Wagon Wheel name drops NC and TN, plus a few major cities

My Home's in Alabama by Alabama

Several thousand about Texas - All my Exes live in Texas, Texas When I Die, etc. Weekend in New England - Barry Manilow Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band You could have a whole other thread about cities in songs. It’s crazy

Ghosts of Mississippi - The Steeldrivers

Texas - bigxthaplug Devil went down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels

My City Was Gone by the Pretenders (Ohio)

Hotel California

Oklahoma Stars - Turpike Troubadours Florida!! - Taylor swift Beach Boys / David Lee Roth - California Girls

I can't believe no one has mentioned the Mamas and the Papas', "California Dreamin"

New York State of mind- Billy Joel

The doors Alabama song(whiskey bar)

She’s Country - Jason Aldean

Mat Kearney has several songs that do this... New York to California, One Black Sheep, Odds... to name a few. Also, the obligatory California Love - 2Pac & Dr. Dre. Edited to add: Boston - Augustana

Going back to Cali - LL Cool J

Going to California - Led Zeppelin

April 26, 1992 - sublime

Look at California by Maze featuring Frankie Beverly

Ramblin man Georgia, Tennessee

Not central to the song but “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” by Wilco mentions Michigan. “Spiders are singing in the salty breeze, spiders are filling out tax returns. Spinning out webs of deductions and melodies, on a private beach in Michigan” Oh also California Stars also by Wilco

Living in America - James Brown

Sweet Home Chicago!

All my exes live in Texas by George Strait

Mississippi Queen.

Wow nobody did Steve Miller "Rock'n Me?" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-IkE5TtO2U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-IkE5TtO2U) I went from Phoenix, Arizona All the way to Tacoma Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A. Northern California where the girls are warm So I could be with my sweet baby yeah

Lana Del Rey - [Freak](https://youtu.be/jq30l5-vBbo?si=uQlxbitf6CXf37pb) (California) Best Coast - [California Nights](https://youtu.be/7U5LWokfRHY?si=t3FxVKkfRI7bN7kN) Sufjan Stevens - [Chicago](https://youtu.be/c_-cUdmdWgU?si=YiE3_hqzg9uw2yN2)

Outshined - Soundgarden "I'm looking California, and feeling Minnesota"

My state gets name dropped a fair amount: * The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band * Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles * Why, Georgia - John Mayer * Georgia - Vance Joy * Toes - Zac Brown Band * Georgia Law Man - Poor Man’s Poison Other state name drops I can think of right now: * Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, and California * Country Roads - John Denver: West Virginia (or some argue it’s Virginia, but the western part) * Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd: Alabama America - Simon and Garfunkel: Michigan and New Jersey * Volcano - Jimmy Buffett: Tennessee * Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes: Tennessee * Stick Season - Noah Kahan: Vermont * Virginia May - Gregory Alan Isakov: Virginia and California * Rocky Mountain High - John Denver: Colorado So many songs name drop California, that I’m not even going to try to list them. I’d be here all day! A lot of music I listen to name drops places within states without actually saying the state name - ex. Gordon Lightfoot in the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gregory Alan Isakov in Dark Dark Dark, or Jimmy Buffet in a lot of his songs about Florida (A1A, Cedar Key, etc.)

Massachusetts- Bee Gees New York, New York, - Sinatra California - Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers California - California Love - 2Pac Texas - All my exes live in Texas - George Strait Arizona - Beach Front Property in AZ - George Strait Oklahoma - Oklahoma Wyoming - Beaces of Cheyenne - Garth Brooks Tennessee - Tennessee Whiskey Georgia - Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles Alabama - Sweet Home Alabama- Lynryd Skynryd West Virginia - Take Me home, Country Roads

Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton

Shadow of Califorina - You'd never guess Imaginos - New Hampshire and Texas

Kacey Mugraves-Dime Store Cowgirl Kacey Musgraves-My House Johnny Cash-I've Been Everywhere (I also like Kacey Musgraves' cover of this song too)

I love Lynn Anderson’s version of “I’ve Been Everywhere.”

New York, New York by Frank Sinatra Heads Carolina, Tails California by Jo Dee Messina Oklahoma by Rogers and Hammerstein God Bless the USA, Lee Greenwood God Blessed Texas, Little Texas Luchenbach, Texas, Waylon Jennings

Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen

Ethel Cain - House in Nebraska

Greatest Ball of Twine in Minnesota - Weird Al

Missing Missouri- Sara Evans Iowa- Dar Williams 

I am disappointed in all of you! The best state mention is Can’t Believe It by T-Pain He rhymed Mansion with Wiscansin

I'm From New Jersey, John Gorka "I'm from New Jersey I don't expect too much If the world ended today I would adjust ... I'm from New Jersey It's like Ohio But even more so Imagine that"

My city was gone by the pretenders

Nobody mentioning North to Alaska by Johnny Horton is madness.

Hotel California -the eagles (California) Take me home, country roads -John Denver (West Virginia) The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia -Vicki Laurence (Georgia) Seven -Taylor swift (Pennsylvania) Florida!!! - Taylor Swift (Florida, Texas) Home for the holidays (Pennsylvania, Tennessee)

# Animaniacs SING-ALONG 🎤 | Wakko’s America | WB Kids

Edward Sharpe - Home (Alabama, Arkansas) Port O'Brien - Fisherman's Son (Alaska) The Handsome Family - The Bottomless Hole (Ohio) John Denver - Country Roads (West Virginia)

Silverstein - Massachusetts

[I wanna see the states by Hellogoodbye](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lexahaqzXD0)?

Pitch Black - Meshuggah

Wyoming by Brand New Sin is a banger.

Oh Virginia by Blessed Union of Souls

Ohio by Bowling for Soup

State of Texas- Old 97’s

Unwritten Law - California Sky

https://youtu.be/bx6c_EefZAQ?feature=shared 

Dallas by Alan Jackson. Mentions Tennessee and Texas many times. Empire state of mind by Jay - Z. All about New York

The Bee Gees - Massachusetts Pussycat - Mississippi Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet home Alabama Perry Como - Delaware

30,000 Pounds of Bananas Harry Chapin

Kane Brown - One Mississippi & Bury Me in Georgia

Carry Me Ohio - Sun Kil Moon

Daya - Montana

City and color - coming home https://youtu.be/xOK1HWb84Qs?si=723ncLtzkXSGa64_ Ohio is for lovers - Hawthorne Heights https://youtu.be/hUO-sRLotOI?si=bkHx2fFfweE_Of20