{"id":14029,"date":"2012-03-24T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/03\/24\/14029.html"},"modified":"2012-03-24T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T08:33:00","slug":"patriotic-and-home-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/03\/24\/patriotic-and-home-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic and home songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This evening, I was listening to an iPhone playlist on shuffle while driving, as I usually do these days, and the Berrymans' song “Your State's Name Here<\/a>” came on. It is, of course, a funny and stirring paean to whatever state you live in (looks like the Chenille Sisters did a somewhat prettier version of it<\/a>), and I hadn't heard it in a couple years, so I was pleased.<\/p>\n

And then it ended, and the next song was Tommy Makem's “Canada My Own Land<\/a>,” all about how great Canada and its people are.<\/p>\n

I was amused at the coincidence. And then the next song was Judy Small's “Sky of the Southern Cross<\/a>,” about how nice it is to return home to the southern hemisphere and see the Southern Cross in the sky again:<\/p>\n

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Some will tell you love of country lies in stemming migrant tides,<\/p>\n

Or in strong defense against some foreign foe,<\/p>\n

Or that cricket teams and sailing ships are cause for national pride,<\/p>\n

But it's never one of these that stirs my soul.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And I started to get really amused. So I started skipping through songs just to see what would come on next. And two of the next four or so were Libera's “Going Home<\/a>” (about, yes, going home), and the Beatles' “Get Back” (“Get back to where you once belonged”).<\/p>\n

I think there were two others somewhere in there that didn't fit the theme, and there was also “Four Strong Winds,” which doesn't exactly fit, although when it started playing I had it confused with “Four Green Fields,” which is about Ireland.<\/p>\n

Really, all it needed to complete the set was the Indigo Girls' rendition of “Finlandia<\/a>,” my favorite patriotic song, which came up in the random mix about a week and a half ago and so couldn't have played tonight (because of the way the mix is constructed).<\/p>\n

Of course, it's possible that I have a lot of songs about love of country and homesickness, and that this is therefore not surprising. But I don't think that's really a major theme in the music I own; not one I've especially noticed before, anyway.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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