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August 29, 2022

#2665: America Songs explain

America Songs

[A header is written above a map of the US mainland:]

Places whose names scan to “America,” so they can be substituted into songs such as:

America the Beautiful

God Bless America

Neil Diamond – America

West Side Story – America

The Guess Who – American Woman

Green Day – American Idiot

[Above the map, towards the left:]

Sasketchewan

[Towards the right:]

Ontario

[A number of places are marked on the map. From top to bottom, left to right:]

Olympia

Yosemite

Los Angeles

Lake Michigan

Peoria

Columbia (in Missouri)

Acadia

Montpelier

Schenectady

Connecticut

LaGuardia

Centralia

Annapolis

Virginia Beach

Columbia (in South Carolina)

Vidalia

The Villages

St. Petersburg

Miami Beach

[Below the map, in columns:]

Australia

Armenia

Monrovia

Brasilia

Australia

Valencia

Byzantium

Assyria

Beringia

Antarctica

Sokovia

Andromenda

Lothlorien

Subnautica

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