I've Been Everywhere. Is This The Ultimate Road Trip Song?

I've Been Everywhere 

I Dare You To Recite a Verse from Memory!

I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota

Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma

Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo, Tocopilla, Barranquilla, and Padilla, I'm a killer

At some point I think everyone has tapped a toe to the iconic "I've Been Everywhere". 

Listen to the man in black's version.

Ready to Rock? The L.A. Rats version featured in the movie The Ice Road

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And I can't imagine memorizing the NINETY THREE locations mentioned in this classic written way back in 1959 by Aussie singer songwriter, Geoff Mack. Of course Mack used all Australian locations in his anthology of travel destinations.

The version most folks have heard over the years is the Hank Snow version from 1962. The song tells the story of a man walking a back road and getting a ride in a truck. The driver asks him if he has ever seen such a dusty road, to which the seasoned traveller responds with, I've been everywhere, man! What follows is, to my mind, might be considered the first Rap song as the rider spews out a machine gun list of locations he has seen. Hank's version has him recite the first verse of 23 locations in 12 seconds! 

There have been numerous versions of the song and artists have customized the destinations to fit their identity. Stomping' Tom did an all Canadian version of course.

Rob Zombie and the L.A. Rats did a metal version, and Johnny Cash's 1996 version was used in the Family Guy episode "The Most Interesting Man in the World"

I think it might be a great song to teach kids for the family road trip and you can re-write the locations to match places you have been as a family. That should keep em' busy!

I have included a couple links to this great travel song and you just try to get those 23 destinations sung out in 12 seconds, and Hank's singing the slower version. 

Happy Trails!