Comments on: Favorite Songs About Minnesota http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:23:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Puppy Luppy http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-227815 Puppy Luppy Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:05:41 +0000 #comment-227815 How about the "Eden Valley Fox Hunt". Any body know were I can get a copy to download? How about the “Eden Valley Fox Hunt”. Any body know were I can get a copy to download?

]]> By: Was Frozen http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-214952 Was Frozen Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:08:51 +0000 #comment-214952 Uptown by Prince Uptown by Prince

]]> By: That Guy http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-210180 That Guy Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:58:47 +0000 #comment-210180 Minneapolis Words by Bob Hilliard Music by Sidney Lippman Min Min Min Min Min Minneapolis! Min Min Min Min Min Minneapolis! Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis You name the happy day and I'll be there And you know where! Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis All that you have to say is that you care And I'll be there I want to walk down the aisle side by side I want to get in the car for the honeymoon ride I want a trail of rice to paradise For everything will be so nice If the wedding is back where the chapel is in Minneapolis We'll have a lot of roses everywhere at this affair So if you love me the way that I want you to love me We're going to settle down Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis town Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis All that you have to say is that you care And I'll be there I want to walk down the aisle side by side I want to get in the car for the honeymoon ride I want a trail of rice to paradise For everything will be so nice If the wedding is back where the chapel is in Minneapolis We'll have a lot of roses everywhere at this affair So if you love me the way that I want you to love me We're going to settle down Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis town Min Min Min Min Min Minneapolis town! Minneapolis town!! Bob Hilliard also wrote "Any Day Now," "Dear Hearts and Gentle People," "The Coffee Song," "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," "Our Day Will Come," "Dearie," "How Do You Speak to an Angel," and "Ev'ry Street's a Boulevard." Sidney Lippman also wrote "Too Young," "A - You're Adorable," and "That's the Chance You Take." The song was recorded by Jill Corey for Columbia in 1954. Minneapolis
Words by Bob Hilliard
Music by Sidney Lippman

Min Min Min Min Min Minneapolis!
Min Min Min Min Min Minneapolis!

Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis
You name the happy day and I’ll be there
And you know where!

Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis
All that you have to say is that you care
And I’ll be there

I want to walk down the aisle side by side
I want to get in the car for the honeymoon ride
I want a trail of rice to paradise
For everything will be so nice

If the wedding is back where the chapel is in Minneapolis
We’ll have a lot of roses everywhere at this affair
So if you love me the way that I want you to love me
We’re going to settle down
Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis town

Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis
All that you have to say is that you care
And I’ll be there

I want to walk down the aisle side by side
I want to get in the car for the honeymoon ride
I want a trail of rice to paradise
For everything will be so nice

If the wedding is back where the chapel is in Minneapolis
We’ll have a lot of roses everywhere at this affair
So if you love me the way that I want you to love me
We’re going to settle down
Back where the chapel is in Minneapolis town

Min Min Min Min Min Minneapolis town!
Minneapolis town!!

Bob Hilliard also wrote “Any Day Now,” “Dear Hearts and Gentle People,” “The Coffee Song,” “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning,” “Our Day Will Come,” “Dearie,” “How Do You Speak to an Angel,” and “Ev’ry Street’s a Boulevard.”

Sidney Lippman also wrote “Too Young,” “A – You’re Adorable,” and “That’s the Chance You Take.”

The song was recorded by Jill Corey for Columbia in 1954.

]]> By: Maria Maria http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-207592 Maria Maria Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:45:49 +0000 #comment-207592 Ha ha! cmc: A song that "namechecks City Center" means nothing to someone unfamiliar with Minneapolis. If you asked a person from Provo, Utah, what that song is about I'm sure "Minneapolis" wouldn't be their first thought. Your Little Hoodrat Friend is about a lot of things, but Minneapolis is pretty far down on the list. I think it's about the fact that this guy says he'd have nothing to do with a particular person, he finds her sickening and sad, but we learn that it was indeed SHE who said no. So yeah, nothing happened. I also wonder if it has any other meaning in the realm of hoodrats mentioned in other songs. Is CF perhaps hung up on a certain little hoodrat? Anyway, not so much about Minneapolis. "I was sitting on my couch folding laundry, looking out the window at the snow covered houses on Dupont Avenue, when the ambulance sped past. I wondered if it was heading toward someone I knew, or if my husband, who was on patrol at the moment on Lake and Pleasant was somehow involved. Little did I know that my life would change as I sat and folded clothes that day." Not about Minneapolis. Get it? Ha ha! cmc: A song that “namechecks City Center” means nothing to someone unfamiliar with Minneapolis. If you asked a person from Provo, Utah, what that song is about I’m sure “Minneapolis” wouldn’t be their first thought. Your Little Hoodrat Friend is about a lot of things, but Minneapolis is pretty far down on the list. I think it’s about the fact that this guy says he’d have nothing to do with a particular person, he finds her sickening and sad, but we learn that it was indeed SHE who said no. So yeah, nothing happened. I also wonder if it has any other meaning in the realm of hoodrats mentioned in other songs. Is CF perhaps hung up on a certain little hoodrat? Anyway, not so much about Minneapolis. “I was sitting on my couch folding laundry, looking out the window at the snow covered houses on Dupont Avenue, when the ambulance sped past. I wondered if it was heading toward someone I knew, or if my husband, who was on patrol at the moment on Lake and Pleasant was somehow involved. Little did I know that my life would change as I sat and folded clothes that day.” Not about Minneapolis. Get it?

]]> By: Maria Maria http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-207591 Maria Maria Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:45:09 +0000 #comment-207591 Ha ha! cmc: A song that "namechecks City Center" means nothing to someone unfamiliar with Minneapolis. If you asked a person from Provo, Utah, what that song is about I'm sure "Minneapolis" wouldn't be their first thought. Your Little Hoodrat Friend is about a lot of things, but Minneapolis is pretty far down on the list. I think it's about the fact that this guy says he'd have nothing to do with a particular person, he finds her sickening and sad, but we learn that it was indeed SHE who said no. So yeah, nothing happened. I also wonder if it has any other meaning in the realm of hoodrats mentioned in other songs. Is CF perhaps hung up on a certain little hoodrat? Anyway, not so much about Minneapolis. "I was sitting on my couch folding laundry, looking out the window at the snow covered houses on Dupont Avenue, when the ambulance sped past. I wondered if it was heading toward someone I knew, or if my husband, who was on patrol at the moment on Lake and Pleasant was somehow involved. Little did I know that my life would change as I sat and folded clothes that day." Not about Minneapolis. Get it? Ha ha! cmc: A song that “namechecks City Center” means nothing to someone unfamiliar with Minneapolis. If you asked a person from Provo, Utah, what that song is about I’m sure “Minneapolis” wouldn’t be their first thought. Your Little Hoodrat Friend is about a lot of things, but Minneapolis is pretty far down on the list. I think it’s about the fact that this guy says he’d have nothing to do with a particular person, he finds her sickening and sad, but we learn that it was indeed SHE who said no. So yeah, nothing happened. I also wonder if it has any other meaning in the realm of hoodrats mentioned in other songs. Is CF perhaps hung up on a certain little hoodrat? Anyway, not so much about Minneapolis. “I was sitting on my couch folding laundry, looking out the window at the snow covered houses on Dupont Avenue, when the ambulance sped past. I wondered if it was heading toward someone I knew, or if my husband, who was on patrol at the moment on Lake and Pleasant was somehow involved. Little did I know that my life would change as I sat and folded clothes that day.” Not about Minneapolis. Get it?

]]> By: QuoteRadar http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-207590 QuoteRadar Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:58:35 +0000 #comment-207590 I like "Hennepin Avenue Bridge" by Brian Setzer... because I feel like a lot of songs I've come across that mention MN/MPLS are the folksy Dylan types. Nothing wrong with that, but variety is good. There's also a brief mention of Minnesota in "We Takin' Over" by DJ Khaled, which is infectiously obnoxious. I like “Hennepin Avenue Bridge” by Brian Setzer… because I feel like a lot of songs I’ve come across that mention MN/MPLS are the folksy Dylan types. Nothing wrong with that, but variety is good.

There’s also a brief mention of Minnesota in “We Takin’ Over” by DJ Khaled, which is infectiously obnoxious.

]]> By: Frozen Texan http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-207582 Frozen Texan Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:42:42 +0000 #comment-207582 Agree with anonymous that just because a song mentions Minnesota, it's not <i>about</i> Minnesota. Here are songs that say something about what it's like to live here: "Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A." - Waylon Jennings "Suhi-Yucky" - Pat Donahoe "Just the Other Side of Nowhere" - Kris Kristofferson "Outshined" - Soundgarden "With God On Our Side" - Bob Dylan "I Can't Have Nothing Nice" - Jeff Bates Agree with anonymous that just because a song mentions Minnesota, it’s not about Minnesota.

Here are songs that say something about what it’s like to live here:

“Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A.” – Waylon Jennings

“Suhi-Yucky” – Pat Donahoe

“Just the Other Side of Nowhere” – Kris Kristofferson

“Outshined” – Soundgarden

“With God On Our Side” – Bob Dylan

“I Can’t Have Nothing Nice” – Jeff Bates

]]> By: slogan http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-207428 slogan Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:53:35 +0000 #comment-207428 There was once a song that had the chorus <i> Meet me on the Lake St. Bridge After darkness falls You, in Minneapolis, Me here in St, Paul </i> or something like that. i like that one. There was once a song that had the chorus
Meet me on the Lake St. Bridge
After darkness falls
You, in Minneapolis,
Me here in St, Paul
or something like that.

i like that one.

]]> By: Chris R http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-207275 Chris R Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:26:32 +0000 #comment-207275 Red light! Red light, run it! Red light! Red light, run it! Lyndale, Garfield, Run it! The Replacements Red light! Red light, run it!
Red light! Red light, run it!
Lyndale, Garfield,
Run it!

The Replacements

]]> By: cmc http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/favorite-songs-about-minnesota#comment-207268 cmc Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:55:27 +0000 #comment-207268 How can a song that namechecks City Center not be about Minneapolis and hence, MN? Whatevs, anonynmous. How can a song that namechecks City Center not be about Minneapolis and hence, MN?

Whatevs, anonynmous.

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