Cool sounding place names

[Gms9810]

This is kind of funny, I've lived in Missouri USA all of my life (52 years of it) and I've always thought UK had the coolest names and that our names were dopey; your town names are classy, whereas we are graced with the likes of Toadsuck Arkansas and Intercourse Pennsylvania. And yes, those are really places.

[steve.ledger]

I guess many are familiar with the Johnny Cash version of "I've been everywhere" - but did you know that this was originally an Australian song written by Aussie Geoff Mack in 1959 and listed Australian towns.

Not only was it adapted to North America, but New Zealand too.
There was even a version listing Beers !

I guess it depends on which one you hear first and become familair with. The others would just sound wrong afterwards.
I suspect this is applying to all those other songs discussed...

"Give Me a Home Among The Oak Trees" wouldn't seem right though..

[Soquili]

Steve I knew about Geoff Mack writing the original song. Hank Snow recorded a version a few years before Johnny Cash. I like all the versions that I have heard.

The lyrics that Hank recorded:
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/sno...here-1964.html

[Ross Macintosh]

Here's Hank Snow performing the song. Well worth watching! (Great suit! I've got to get me one like that!) Hank Snow was from Nova Scotia (near where I live) and long before he became a country music star he and his band toured all the little dance halls of Nova Scotia. My father remembers seeing him at a dance -- the cover charge was 25 cents!

Here is the Australian version performed by Lucky Starr who had a hit with it in 1962. And here's the original by Geoff Mack.

It seems to me Boxcar Willie also had a version after Hank Snow and Johnnie Cash.

Regards, Ross

[Ross Macintosh]

Here's a listing of some wacky town names in the USA: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/wackytowns.html They aren't anywhere as wacky as the Newfoundland ones I linked to near the beginning of this thread.

[zaphodeist]

... "I've been everywhere" - but did you know that this was originally an Australian song ...

If Johnny Cash had sung the original in San Quentin - "Well, I was humpin' my bluey on the dusty Oodnadatta road." - there might have been a riot!

Gms9810:I've often wondered about that. Mind you, in the UK (everwhere I suppose) our perception of the world is obviously filtered through TV and films - the real Casablanca is not a romantic place believe me!