For every day I work on the illinois river
I get a half a day off with pay
All day long I'm makin' up barges
On a long hot summer day
Well I got »
Long Hot Summer Days Mark Twang
by John Hartford
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For every day I work on the illinois River
Get a half a day off with pay
All day long I'm makin' up barges
On a long hot summer day
Well I got me »
Long Hot Summer Days Sara Watkins
by Sara Watkins
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I was standing on this sidewalk
In 1945 in Jacksonville, illinois
When asked what my name was there came no reply
They said I was a deaf »
John Doe No. 24 Stones in the Road
by Mary Chapin Carpenter
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the best is for the best then the best is unkind
I realized that illinois was more than I could stand They say working?s best cause poverty is hell »
Best for the Best The Animal Years
by Josh Ritter
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Well I started out to be a towboat man
But I never got the hang of a ratchet bar
I was a -growin up a-deckin in the
illinois trade with coal dust »
Steamboat Whistle Blues Aereo-Plain
by John Hartford
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And the heather covered hills
And came to find America
With broad, expectant dreams
And iron wills
My grandad worked the steel mills
Of central Illinois
His »
Forefathers The Wild Places
by Dan Fogelberg
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[Chorus]
If you don't want to find out the hard way
Then listen to this song while the record plays
[Chorus]
You can cry a river
'Till an ocean »
When a Woman's Fed Up R.
by R. Kelly
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Go Pato! All over America!
I want the whole wide world to know
that Pato Banton is on the go.
Just like a tree that plant by the rivers »
Go Pato Universal Love
by Pato Banton
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illinois Robert Lee McCoy - vocal & guitar, 'probably' Speckled Red - piano Sonny Boy Williamson - harmonica. (credits from Bluebird insert) Album: Robert »
Every Day and Night Bluebird Recordings 1937-1938
by Robert Lee McCoy
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Oakland, Frisco, Virginia, Arkansas, Fresno, Kansas, Tennessee, Sacramento, Treeport, Omaha Nebraska, Texas, Chicago, Louisville, Kentucky, illinois »
There Dey Go Tru 2 da Game
by Tru
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