One woman's 4000 mile solo bicycle tour across the country from Yorktown, VA to Seattle, WA via the Transamerica and Northern Tier bike routes

***disclaimer: I am riding my bicycle. If I think about grammar, spellings, run-on sentences etc... I will never write this blog. Forgive me in advance....***

Random Ear Worms

...Because we've all had those random songs pop in our heads and wonder where in the world that came from.... this seems to be especially interesting while riding your bicycle for miles on end....

Day 0 (May 6):   Merle Haggard - Mama Tried  (picture me riding about 5 miles from Yorktown when all the sudden the chorus pops into my head with GUSTO.. "I turned twenty-one in prison doing live without parole/ No one could steer me right but Mama tried, MAMA TRIED!......")

Day 1 (May 7): 10,000 Maniacs - Eat for Two "I eat for two, walk for two.." (uhh.... considering I definitely am eating for one, cycling for one.. I don't know where that came from.)

Just Around the Riverbend - from Disney's terrible Pocahontas movie - I'm blaming YOU Jamestown.



Day 3: (May 9): The Beatles - Lovely Rita (.... I rean really?!?!  I probably haven't heard that song in five year at least)


Day 6: Woody Guthrie - Roll on Columbia (except that is literally the only words I know of the song...)


Day 7: Willie and the Poorboys (who did that?)

Day 9: Heart - "Alone"
"Shake your groove thing" (don't know who did this)
The Eagles - "Take it to the Limit"

Day 10: Lucinda Williams - "Lost It"

Days 12-17:
Bruce Springsteen: Dancing in the Dark
Echosmith - Cool Kids (thank you Kristen for saving me here.. literally had one line stuck in my head for days and she clued me into who it was!)
Madonna - Get into the Groove


Days 18-20:
Vince Gill: Whenever You Come Around
Patty Loveless:  Nothing But The Wheel
Amy Grant: Hats (.....probably the best/worst song ever....also apparently I had a country day)
Kate Wolf: Carolina Pines (really this should have been put on the list way earlier in the ride.  Pops into my head whenever I see an old abandoned house)
Nina Simone: Feeling Good

Days 21-23
Sarah Fulford: Hey There Uncle Sam
Pat Benetar: Heartbreaker

Days 24-27:
Bruce Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad 
Indigo Girls: Scooter Boys
David Francey - Red Winged Black Bird (this song really just keeps popping up as I see these birds everywhere)


Days 28-29:
Rosanne Cash - My Baby Thinks He's a Train
"Nature Boy"  - from Moulin Rouge
 Mel McDaniel - Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On
"Wild and Blue" -specifically Nina Feldman from guitar camp singing it!
Funky Town - (who did this?)


Days 30-35:
Sheryl Crow: Difficult Kind
"Bicycle Built for two" (Daisy, daisy...) (all those beautiful daisies in Missouri...)
Christine Lavin - What Was I Thinking (too much food in the panniers!!)
En Vogue - Never Gonna Get It
Cosy Sheridan - Hannibal Crossed The Alps (or the Ozarks..)
Molly O'Day - 6 More Miles to the Graveyard (that popped in when I saw a 6 miles to Houston sign....if that gives you any indication of the state I was feeling!
Lucinda Williams - Unsuffer Me (on day of clipped in crash.."I'm bruised and bloody..")
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Irene Caro - What A Feeling
Lucinda Williams - I Lost It (I moved my seat to get my feet aligned right with new shoes and now it's just not right!!)
Lucinda Williams - It's a Long Way to the Top If You Want to Rock n' Roll

Days 36-39:
Simon & Garfunkl - Sound of Silence
Tanya Tucker - If Your Heart Ain't Busy Tonight
Lucinda Williams - Lafayette
Shortening Bread

Days 40-42
The Eagles - One of These Nights
Alan Jackson - Remember When
Lucinda - Get Right With God (see she's in my head so much I don't even need a last name do I?!)
Madonna - Material Girl


Days 43-47:
Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
Aerosmith - Don't Wanna Miss A Thing
Romeo & Juliet (okay, this was unfortunate because I had the Indigo Girls version, which is one of the few songs they do that I do not enjoy... was really trying to get Dire Straits in my head, but to no avail)
Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden

Days 48-54:
Ear Worms:
Kansas – Carry On My Wayward Son
Rockwell – Somebody’s Watching Me
Loretta Lynn – High on a Mountain Top

Days 55-62:
Van Morrison: Into the Mystic
Carol King: So Far Away
Celine Dion: It's All Coming Back (thanks so much Brigid, although technically I know I started it)
Bob Seeger - Against The Wind
Aretha Franklin - Riding on the Freeway
Bonnie Raitt - Dimming of the Day
Martha Scanlan - The West was Burning and Up on the Divide
Ferron - ... can't remember the name of the song or really any of the words, just got the melody and a hint of her voice...
Alanis Morissette - You Learn
Little Big Town - Tornado
Eagles - Lying Eyes
"Angeline the Baker"
Gladiator Theme Song
my high school fight song "Onward Granite"
Dire Straits - So Far Away from me
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
"Let's Go Fly a Kite" from Mary Poppins
Bonnie Tyler - It's A Heartache

Days 64-74
It's A Jolly Holiday With Mary - Mary Poppins
Tina Turner: You're Simply the Best
Stevie Nicks: Talk to Me
(weird mix of Tina and Stevie songs)
Indigo Girls - Bitterroot River
Gotye - Somebody that I used to Know
George Strait - All My Ex's Live in Texas
&   "Sing, Sing, Sing" song from 20 Feet From Stardom (weird mix of the two choruses)

Days 75-81
Florence and the Machine - Seven Devils
Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes
Annie Lennox - Honestly
Amii Stewart - Knock on Wood
Houndmouth - Sedona
Nina Simone - See Line Woman
Moon Taxi - Morocco

Days 82-85
"Cloud Magnet Brigid" - our own composition
John Fogerty - Centerfield
Bette Midler (and Rolling Stones, but mostly Bette) - Beast of Burden
Martha Scanlan - Get Right Church

Days 86-89
Ear Worms: 
Reba - Is There Life Out There
Pretenders - Stand By Me
Bryan Adams - Small Town
Vance Joy - Riptide

Dave Van Ronk - Green Green Rocky Road

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