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Submit Your Favorite Walking Song. Or Road Trip Song.

A quick post, Dear Reader. I'm almost to the end of my final memoir revision. And I need your help.

A quick post, Dear Reader. I’m almost to the end of my final memoir revision.

And I need your help.

What’s your favorite song with a variation of the word ‘walk’ in the title? Or maybe you love a song that features walking in the lyrics?

What about road trip songs? Do you have a favorite tune that signifies a long haul in the car?

Chapters in the memoir already make a rocking playlist. Maybe you’ll see your selected song in print. Leave your nomination with a link in a comment today. If I choose your song, I’ll mention you in the credits.

Thankyouverymuch.

(The Shrewsdays will return tomorrow. I’m not done with them.)

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TODAY’S MERIWETHER LEWIS BIRTHDAY MONTH TRIVIA QUESTION:

MERIWETHER LEWIS IS KNOWN AS AMERICA’S FIRST ___________________?

Yesterday’s Meriwether Lewis Birthday Month Trivia Question: SACAGAWEA HAD A BABY ON THE EXPEDITION. WHO ADOPTED HIM AND RAISED HIM AS THEIR OWN?

ANSWER: William Clark reared Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau as his own son. Congratulations to Jim Stewart for his spot-on answer!

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To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis is just $2.99 on Kindle during August in celebration of Meriwether Lewis’ Birthday Month.

Click here to read an excerpt.

Or click below to buy it.

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To check out the entire Meriwether Lewis Birthday Month Series, follow the links below:

Lewis and Clark: Screwing Their Way Across a Continent
Lewis and Clark and Sex Bombs
Who Was Meriwether Lewis Godfather?
If Meriwether Lewis Had Lived to be 80
Lewis and Clark and Old Blue Eyes
The Lion Will Lie Down With the Lamb
My Natchez Trace Walk Featured in We Proceeded On
Dead People Follow Me And They Talk To Me
Is Suicide the Final Arbiter of a Life. For Robin Williams. And Meriwether Lewis.
WordPress Is Killing Me
Fate’s Fickle Fingering
Happy Birthday Meriwether Lewis
I Just Can’t Come
Guardians of the Neighborhood
Did the Vikings Walk the Natchez Trace?
I’m an Idiot Who Doesn’t Do Details
Friendship Makes the World Go Around
The One Where the British Ate Frogmore Stew

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  1. Hands down, Walking After Midnight by Patsy Cline. I used to sing it to the babies I used to babysit and I sang it to my own babies. I hope they sing it to theirs. Good luck with the final chapters/revisions! How exciting!

    1. Like you, I love this one. It was in the first draft of the book, but now, your name will be in the final, too. 🙂

  2. “Walkin’ Back To Georgia”, by Jim Croce http://youtu.be/kIJabiKOtCU

    “Take The Highway”, Marshall Tucker Band http://youtu.be/25ALsr5phZo

    “Drivin’ Sister” Mott The Hoople http://youtu.be/gZbXJRh7taU

    “Highway Song” Blackfoot http://youtu.be/2mve2ElcpXU

    “Breaker Breaker” The Outlaws http://youtu.be/u3dlRdvnjuI

    “Two Lane Highway” Pure Prairie League http://youtu.be/_QQsEJFgPwY

    I wish I had more time to provide a few more, but it’s off to Orlando for a few days….good luck with “finals”

    1. Ray, you managed to give me a list of songs that aren’t yet there. I’ll have to listen to some of these and see where one might fit. Have a safe trip to Orlando.

      1. LOVE Marshall Tucker Take the Highway. You must be Southern!

    1. I’ve been going back and forth on some Tom Petty, but you’ve pushed me in the right direction, Beth. Thank you.

  4. These Boots are made for Walking, You’ll never Walk Alone, I’m walking on sunshine. Good Luck

    1. Three for three. All in the book. (If you want your name in the book, send it to me by private message.)

  5. I’ve got a song that’ll get on your nerves!!

    1. I’m sure you’ll serenade me for the entire week you’re at our house, Alan.

    1. Very good one, Kate. I’d not considered it, and I really think it might fit in a place where I’m not moaning and groaning. 🙂 Thank you.

    1. This one appears in a very special place. 🙂 (Your name is already in the book, as you’re a character.)

  10. My favorite walking song is Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus. It always appealed to me because it felt natural to walk to it – the 4/4 timing probably helped there, but there’s no walk in the title. Similarly so with Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

    I’ll have to keep thinking on this for you.

    2. I had to write an extra Dad chapter, but Personal Jesus may just make it in. 🙂

    1. This one must go in, because Alice and Dad ferried me along the road of his name when they dropped me off and picked me up around Natchez. The heavenly fried chicken place is also on this road (fittingly.)

    2. I knew I liked Robert Johnson for more than just photos!

  15. Then, in order and leaving too many out…Going Up The Country – Canned Heat; Truckin’ – The Dead; Road To Nowhere – The Talking Heads; Rambling Man; The Allmans; Born to Run – Bruce; On The Road Again – Wille

    1. Road to Nowhere and Ramblin’ Man are in (though MTM cannot stand Ramblin’ Man…….. he wanted to veto that one.)

  16. I love “Walk on By” and “Walk Away Renee” but how about something like “Love Walks In” by Van Halen? I little guitar riff for those last few miles or Jill Scott’s “A Long Walk” (I really like the lyrics) .

    (I’ll make sure you have some mail later in the month to make the trip worth it , filled with your very own “butterflies” )

    1. I forgot about Love Walks In, which totally fits my love of hair bands. 🙂

      1. it’s a good tune 😉

    1. I’ve considered this song several times, but it still hasn’t made it in. There’s still time, though……

    1. My fav. Had the pleasure of seeing him perform live in an outdoor venue a few years ago. 🙂

    2. I put Walking to New Orleans in the book to honor Mardi Gras, but I didn’t put this one in, because I don’t go near Memphis on the walk……………Lewis started from Memphis on his march of death, though, so maybe…….

  21. Walking in Memphis – which is wonderfully taken above. 🙂

    Jimmy Webb/Joni Mitchell – Walk Your Feet in the Sunshine.
    On the Road Again – Willie Nelson (and others)
    Hit the Road Jack – Ray Charles ?
    Leaving on a Jet Plane – Peter, Paul & Mary or John Denver renditions

    1. Hit the Road Jack is already in, Penny. 🙂 Love me some Ray Charles.

    1. I’ve got to find a way to work a Depeche Mode in, because MTM and I both love them.

  23. I am late to the dance – a few of my favs are already up hear. But this one also came to mind.
    Lets see if I can link, I’m a bit technically challenged.

    http://youtu.be/8SBBuj4O0W0

    1. Of course, your selection must go in, since you are every beta reader’s favorite character. With every read, I got “More Alice! More Alice!”

    1. I put this one in, even though much of the walk felt like a lonely slog through hell……….

    1. Love this Nancy. My cousins used to call me “Nancy Snot” cause I dressed like her. 🙂

    2. One of my favorites from long ago…when I was too young to wear a mini skirt and boots.

      1. Yep, me too — but I can today, at Karaoke. Bring on the go-go boots! 🙂

    3. This one was first draft material. I’ve moved it several times, because it fits so many places. Awesome song.

  28. Uh, this is a tough one. When I was young and we went on a road trip the song we sang, and sang, and sang was the Marine Corp Hymm (I kid you not), and some song that I know the words too, but not sure it’s even a song (My home’s in Montana, I wear a bandana, my spurs are of silver, my pony is gray…). When I hike, or walk, I don’t listen to anything but my surroundings and now when I go on a road trip I listen to a book on audio. Not much help to you Andra…but thanks for the jolt in my memory bank.

    1. What’s funny is I didn’t listen to any music on my walk. I couldn’t have earplugs in and hear cars coming up behind me. I initially wanted To Live Forever to have tons of music in it, but the more I revised, the more that went to the sideline. So, I’ve come up with a way (I think) to make music a piece of the memoir.

  30. Country Road – John Denver. When I was young, my parents moved from Milwaukee to a small town in MI. Our house in MI was in the country on a dirt road. We would sing country road when we got close to our town on every car trip back from WI. To this day, when I hear that song, I feel like I am 6 years old, sitting in the back of the caprice classic station wagon singing my heart out.

    1. Why didn’t I know you once lived in Milwaukee? Surely you told me that.

      Country Road is a classic. (And part of the sequel to To Live Forever is set in West VA.)

    1. I stop believing in myself all the time, but MTM will never stop believing in me. 🙂 I don’t know what I’d do without him (but I know I won’t play him this song, because he cannot stand Journey. 🙂 )

      1. MTM doesn’t like Journey? The best rock band of all time? And here I thought he was PERFECT :-p Play this song for yourself, Andra, but use the ear buds. MTM will never know…

      2. Whaaaaaa? No Journey? I’m bamboozled. My favorite group – as long as the lead singer is Steve Perry. 😉

    1. Love this! Pure voice, no enhancement needed. I guess there are still folks who sound like this, but they’re sure not in the forefront on the radio/TV today.

      1. If Bill mentions a song it almost is always Townes van Zandt.

    1. Another good one. I knew I’d get so many eclectic choices from this group.

  36. This one’s in my latest memoir but you can use it too — “Once in a Lifetime” by the Talking Heads. Cheers girl, write on!

    1. My tribute to Talking Heads is Road to Nowhere, so you’re safe. 🙂

  38. How about Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox? Great to walk to!

      1. I bet I know which day and that is an amazing song…it saw me through some hard times.

  42. So many.

    Walk On – U2
    walk On – Foo Fighters
    Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
    You Get what You Give – New Radicals
    Heroes – David Bowie

    so many more

    1. Roam has been in the book since the very beginning, Cheryl. I hope Robert will be proud.

  46. A *lot* of my favs are already up, but since I am a consummate nerd, I’m always happy when “Song of the Lonely Mountain” queues up in my iPod for a walk or a drive. It never fails to make me smile. Others include “Free Bird” and our high-school car theme song “Run Around Sue.”

  47. I’m late to the offering, but I’ll throw my two cents in. Walk on the Wild Side–Lour Reed and Walk on By–Dionne Warwick–I didn’t read each comment with links thoroughly. They may already be mentioned. I do have a roadtrip play list and one of my favorites is Don McLean’s American Pie. It’s long, singable, and brings on a bit of nostalgia! 🙂

  48. Sorry I’m late to the party, but I’ve been so busy of late and I’m behind on my Andra Watkins. Trying to catch up and read posts of The Cootchie I’ve missed… just leaving snarky comments (and nice ones too) on fb isn’t enough.

    Okay, my song suggestion has to be Dr Wu by Steely Dan, on their Katy Lied album. A beautiful song and when he songs… “You walked in, And my life began again”… it has a lovely feel to it.

  49. Here’s my pick… http://youtu.be/ZVetTbHiwjw

    Dr Wu by Steely Dan… when he sings “when you walked in my life began again’… Love that.

    Not sure what this whole song thing is all about, but did not see this classic mentioned penned before you were born when Roy was too ‘cool for school’ no doubt… Walk Like a Man by The Four Seasons.

  50. I’m late to the party, I know, I know….

    Walk On by Neil Young
    Walking Blues – try the Hindu Love Gods version — side project of Warren Zevon & R.E.M.
    I’m Wide Awake it’s Morning – Bright Eyes
    Goldmine Gutted – Bright Eyes
    Talking Heads – I Zimbra & Life During Wartime — these are just wonderfully energetic songs to get you going.
    Walking on Broken Glass – Annie Lennox
    Walk the Dinosaur – Was (Not Was)
    and finally, Walk Like an Egyptian – The Bangles

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