{"id":3114,"date":"2017-10-21T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T13:22:09","slug":"ive-been-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/ive-been-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Been Everywhere (Hank Snow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I&#039;ve Been Everywhere\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fVvj411Q1OM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, to start off with, I have hitchhiked out of Winnemucca, Nevada. I don&#8217;t remember if I was picked up by a semi, but I&#8217;ve had rides from a lot of truckers over the years, in a lot of places, both in and out of the United States. Which said, I&#8217;ve never been to <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3136 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hank-Snow-Everywhere-LP.jpg?resize=270%2C268\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hank-Snow-Everywhere-LP.jpg?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hank-Snow-Everywhere-LP.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>Ombabika, nor have I been to Jellicoe* &#8212; both pretty far north in Ontario, though not as far north as Schefferville, Quebec. Nor have I been to Barranquilla, Colombia, or Tocopilla, Chile, and I have no idea what either is doing in this song, nor yet <span class=\"st\">Diamantina, which seems to be in Brazil (or, my old traveling partner Jasper Winn suggests, Australia)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian place names make sense, because Hank Snow, who put this together, was from Brooklyn, Nova Scotia&#8211;which sounds like a joke to me (and more so because it&#8217;s in Queens County), but apparently is real, though not included in the song. Actually, I should say Hank Snow put <em>this<\/em> version together, because I just learned that the original was Australian, by a fellow named Lucky Starr, who sings it significantly faster than Snow or I do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always taken pride in my ability to memorize and remember song lyrics &#8212; that&#8217;s partly what this whole project is about &#8212; but this was undoubtedly the toughest lyric I ever memorized. I still have a perfectly clear picture of the evening I spent on it, walking back and forth across my bedroom floor, reciting till I made a mistake, checking the lyric, starting again, walking some more&#8230; I always recommend memorizing last thing in the evening, because then your brain keeps churning in your sleep &#8212; and it clearly worked, since that was almost 35 years ago and it&#8217;s still stuck in those cerebral crenelations&#8230; which admittedly might have been better used for other purposes.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3151 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hitchcover.jpg?resize=225%2C346\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hitchcover.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hitchcover.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I was spurred to learn this by my friend Monte in Vancouver, a Canadian ex-rodeo rider and wonderful harmonica player discussed<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/pancho-lefty\/\"> in earlier posts<\/a>. I used to hitchhike back and forth across the US every few years, and once across Canada, and Monte figured if I were going to make that part of my stage persona I&#8217;d better know this one.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I last hitched across country in 2006, on the book tour for <em>Riding with Strangers<\/em>, which was about the previous cross-country trip in 2005&#8230; so I guess I&#8217;m about due for another&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3152 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Wald-hitchpic2-189x300.jpg?resize=106%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Wald-hitchpic2.jpg?resize=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1 189w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Wald-hitchpic2.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/>&#8230;and finally I&#8217;m forced to recall Dave Van Ronk telling me apologetically that despite my fine example he couldn&#8217;t bring himself to pick up hitchhikers, because they always insisted on chatting and were almost always boring&#8230; and I guess this song is a good example of what he was complaining about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*I find there is also a Jellico, California, and a Jellico, Tennessee. 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