Social Distancing and staying at home are important for our health and safety, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take a little trip with our imaginations. We’ve listed lines from popular songs that contain the name of a city, state, famous landmark or country in the lyrics. Identify the title of the song; the artist who performed it and the hometown of the artist/lead singer.

Answers to the quiz are located in Next Month In This Awful Awesome Life - May 2020, https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2020/4/6/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life-may-2020

Song Title:

“Travelin’ Man”                                    “Smoke on the Water”

“The Boxer”                                                    “Johnny B. Goode”

“Take me to Texas”                                        “Hungry Heart”

“Twistin’ USA”                                                 “Get Back”

“House of the Rising Sun”                            “Jersey Girl”

“No Woman No Cry”                                     “Love Shack”

“Riot on Broadstreet”                                    “Free Man in Paris”

“Midnight Train to Georgia”

Artist/Group:

George Strait                                                    The Beatles

Bob Marley and the Wailers                      B52’s

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones                  Tom Waits

Chubby Checker                                             The Animals

Joni Mitchell                                                    Deep Purple

Bruce Springsteen                                          Ricky Nelson

Simon & Garfunkel                                         Chuck Berry

Gladys Knight and the Pips

Birthplace:

St. Louis, Missouri

Lead singer Ian Gillian is from Chiswick, London, England

Spring Gully, South Carolina

The lead singer of this group was born in Atlanta, Georgia

Long Branch, New Jersey

Lead singer Eric Burden was born in Walker, New Castle upon Tyne, England

Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada

Lead singer Dicky Barrett was born in Providence, Rhode Island

Teaneck, New Jersey

Paul McCartney who sang lead vocals on this song was born in Liverpool, England

The members of this award winning duo were born in Newark, New Jersey and New York City, New York

Lead vocals were shared by Fred Schneider (Newark, New Jersey), Kate Pierson (Weehawken, New Jersey) and Cindy Wilson (Athens, Georgia)

Poteet, Texas

The lead singer of this group was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, British Jamaica.

Pomona, California

Line from song (fill the blanks with the song title/artist or group/ birthplace):

1.       There is a house in New Orleans they call…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

2.       Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack; I went out for a ride and I never went back…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

3.       JoJo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

4.       L.A. proved too much for the man…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

5.       I’m headin’ down the Atlanta highway. Lookin’ for the love getaway…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

6.       ‘Cause – ‘cause – ‘cause I remember when we used to sit in a government yard in Trenchtown…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

7.       We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

8.       Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans way back up in the woods among the evergreens…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

9.       'Cause tonight I'm gonna take that ride, Across the river to the jersey side…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

10.   Then I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone going home where the New York City winters aren’t bleeding me…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

11.   The closest thing I've ever seen to Heaven's the Gulf of Mexico I'm a child of the Alamo and the Yellow Rose…./ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

12.   If I had my way, I’d just walk out those doors and wander down the Champs Elysees…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

13.   My father once told this to me Boston’s gritty history another ruthless battle in a useless holy war…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

14.   I remember the night when we walked in the sands of Waikiki and I held you, oh so tight…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________

15.   They’re wailing in Warwood, in Pittsburgh and St. Lou…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________