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Shamus,
Actually your first two did make the list, just not the Top 40.
BTW, "Six Days On The Road" was by Dave Dudley, not Red Sovine. Red Sovine did "Giddyup-Go" and "Phantom 309".
Also rans:
Orinoco Flow (Sail Away), Enya (11 points); Hotel California, The Eagles (11); Take it Easy, The Eagles (10); Wherever I May Roam, Metallica (10); You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, Bob Dylan (10); Freedom of the Road, Martin Sexton (10); Willin’, Little Feat (10); Spirit Voices, Paul Simon (10); Starless Summer Sky, Marshall Crenshaw (10); A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, Dwight Yoakam (10); Road Trippin’, Red Hot Chili Peppers (10); Wayfaring Stranger, traditional (10); Wheels, Cake (10); On the Road to Find Out, Cat Stevens (10); Kill, Soulside (10); Hard Sun, Eddie Vedder (10); The Big Country, Talking Heads (10); Scatterlings of Africa, Johnny Clegg (10); Volare, The Gipsy Kings (10)
Peace Train, Cat Stevens (9 points); Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen (9); Beautiful Day, U2 (9); Moving it Down the Line, Bill Staines (9); How to Fight Loneliness, Wilco (9); Rank Stranger, The Stanley Brothers (9); Travelin’ Man, Ricky Nelson (9); This Must Be the Place, Talking Heads (9); Bron-Yr-Aur, Led Zeppelin (9); The Load-Out and Stay, Jackson Browne (9); Paradise City, Guns N’ Roses (9); No Worries, Hepcat (9); Ramblin’ Man, Lemon Jelly (9); Straight to Hell, The Clash (9); California Dreamin’, The Mamas & the Papas (9); A Sort of Homecoming, U2 (9); Transcontinental 1:30 a.m., Vienna Teng (9); Sentimental Journey, Ella Fitzgerald (9); Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett (9); Walking in Memphis, Marc Cohn (9); Last Stop This Town, Eels (9); The Coast, Paul Simon (9)
Interstate Love Song, Stone Temple Pilots (8 points); Passenger Side, Wilco (8 ); Going to California, Led Zeppelin (8 ); Glory Days, Bruce Springsteen (8 ); Ramblin’ Boy, Tom Paxton (8 ); From Island to Another, Chris Whitley (8 ); I Left My Wallet in El Segundo, A Tribe Called Quest (8 ); Hard Travelin’, Woody Guthrie (8 ); Range Life, Pavement (8 ); Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad, traditional (8 ); Panama, Van Halen (8 ); Soul Meets Body, Death Cab for Cutie (8 ); Darlington County, Bruce Springsteen (8 ); Rio, Duran Duran (8 ); Big Walk, Poi Dog Pondering (8 ); I Dream a Highway, Gillian Welch (8 ); Paper Planes, M.I.A. (8 ); Pure Shores, All Saints (8 ); She Moves On, Paul Simon (8 ); Nashville, David Mead (8 ); Anywhere Is, Enya (8 )
Here I Go Again, Whitesnake (7 points); The Message, Grandmaster Flash (7); I Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound, Tom Paxton (7); Black Denim Trousers And Motorcycle Boots, The Cheers (7); I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, U2 (7); Fly Away, Lenny Kravitz (7); Big World, Joe Jackson (7); Dreadlock Holiday, 10cc (7); Boots of Spanish Leather, Bob Dylan (7); Next Best Western, Richard Shindell (7); Eurotrash Girl, Cracker (7); Northern Sky, Nick Drake (7); Chinatown Bus, Bishop Allen (7); If Everybody Looked the Same, Groove Armada (7); Time to Move On, Tom Petty (7); Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones (7); The Geese of Beverly Road, The National (7); Shoot to Thrill, AC/DC (7); Cross Road Blues, Robert Johnson (7); Raggle Taggle Gypsy, traditional (7); Fast Car, Tracy Chapman (7); Big River, Johnny Cash (7)
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams (6 points); Over the Hills and Far Away, Led Zeppelin (6); Life is a Highway, by Tom Cochrane (6); The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits (6); Del Shannon, Runaway (6); Douce France, Charles Trenet (6); Big Yellow Taxi, by Joni Mitchell (6); Abilene, Dave Alvin (6); One Particular Harbor, Jimmy Buffett (6); Early Morning Rain, Gordon Lightfoot; Ian and Sylvia (6); Just Like Honey, Jesus and Mary Chain (6); Running on Empty, Jackson Browne (6); Songs of a Wayfarer, Gustav Mahler (6); Within You Without You, Sonic Youth (Beatles cover) (6); Traveling Miles, Cassandra Wilson (6); Nantes, Beirut (6); Lodi, Creedence Clearwater Revival (6); Joni Mitchell, Night Ride Home (6); Mull of Kintyre, Paul McCartney & Wings (6); The Bonnie Banks o Loch Lomond, Traditional Scottish song (beautifully sung by the King’s Singers) (6); In God’s Country, U2 (6); The Road Goes on Forever (And the Party Never Ends)—Robert Earl Keen (6); Irish Rover, traditional (6); Leaving Trunk, Taj Mahal (6)
Winter Valley Song, Fountains of Wayne (5 points); Half a World Away, R.E.M. (5); Love Train, O’Jays (5); I Am the Highway, Audioslave (5); Waltz Across Texas Tonight, Emmylou Harris (5); So Far Away, Carol King (5); Levelland, James McMurtry/Robert Earl Keen (5); Sights and Sounds of London Town, Richard Thompson (5); Six Days on the Road, Dave Dudley (5); Kiss Me on the Bus, The Replacements (5); Desperados Waiting for a Train, Guy Clark (5); Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright, Bob Dylan (5); Silver Jews, Random Rules (5); Steamtrains to the Milky Way, Danny Wilson (5); East Bound and Down, Jerry Reed (5); One Tree Hill, U2 (5); Exodus, Bob Marley (5); Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty (5); Grace, Jeff Buckley (5)
Waitress in the Sky, The Replacements (4 points); Route 66 Theme, Nelson Riddle (4); Don’t Stop Believin’, Journey (4); Sweet Emotion, Aerosmith (4); Holidays in the Sun, Sex Pistols (4); Tom Sawyer, Rush (4); Faithfully, Journey (4); Should I Stay or Should I Go, The Clash (4); Brand New Set of Wings, Joe Purdy (4); Pancho and Lefty, Willie Nelson (4); Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Dionne Warwick (4); She Moved Through the Fair, traditional Scottish (4); Rearviewmirror, Pearl Jam (4); Oh My Sweet Carolina, Ryan Adams (4); Sail Away, David Gray (4); Left of the Dial, The Replacements (4); Love in Vain, Robert Johnson (4); Istanbul (Not Constantinople), originally recorded by The Four Lads in 1953 (but the most popular today is probably by They Might Be Giants) (4); Hoppipolla, Sigur Ros (4) Over the Rainbow, Judy Garland Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (4); Don’t Fence Me In, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (4); Crystal Frontier, Calexico (4); One Night in Bangkok, Murray Head (4); City of Blinding Lights, U2 (4); Englishman in New York, Sting (4); Colorado, Grizzly Bear (4); Turn the Page, Bob Seger (4); Love Shack, B-52’s (4)
Gentle On My Mind, Glen Campbell (3 points); Tiny Dancer, Elton John (the Dave Grohl version) (3); Hello Bonjour, Michael Franti (3); Caravan, Van Morrison (3); I’ll Be Here in the Morning, Townes Van Zandt (3); Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, Woody Guthrie (3); 500 Miles, Peter, Paul and Mary (3); Dans Le Port d’Amsterdam, Jacques Brel (3); My Back Pages, Bob Dylan (3); Gold Soundz, Pavement (3); If I Had A Boat, Lyle Lovett (3); 40 Boys in 40 Nights, The Donnas (3); Waterloo Sunset, The Kinks (3); Wheel in the Sky, Journey (3); Two of Us, The Beatles (3); Basin Street Blues, Louis Armstrong (3); Let’s Get Out of This Country, Camera Obscura (3); Acadian Driftwood, The Band (3); Bamboo Banger, M.I.A. (3); 3x5, John Mayer (3); Rock Island Line, Lead Belly (3); Mysterious Ways, U2 (3)
Hey Porter, Johnny Cash (2 points); Long Long Journey, Enya (2); Hard Road to Travel, Jimmy Cliff (2); L.A. Woman, The Doors (2); Drivin’ My Life Away, Eddie Rabbitt (2); Always on the Run, Lenny Kravitz (2); Les Champs-Élysées, Joe Dassin (2); Chicago, Sufjan Stevens (2); Wild Montana Skies, John Denver with Emmylou Harris (2); The Hobo Song, John Prine (2); Slow Ride, Bonnie Raitt (2); Driftless, Greg Brown (2); California Stars, Billy Bragg & Wilco (2); Have You Ever Seen the Rain?, Creedence Clearwater Revival (2); Come Fly With Me, Frank Sinatra (2); New Routine, Fountains of Wayne (2); Dead + Rural, Handsome Furs (2); We’ve Been Had, The Walkmen (2); Hold Back the Rain, Duran Duran (2); Black Water, Doobie Brothers (2); Float On, Modest Mouse (2); Oh, Shenandoah, traditional (2)
Black Diamond Bay, Bob Dylan (1 point); The Last Resort, Eagles (1); Pilgrim, Enya (1); Under African Skies, Paul Simon (1); Jackson, Johnny Cash & June Carter (1); Six Days on the Road, Dave Dudley (1); Every Day is a Winding Road, Sheryl Crow (1); Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, Dengue Fever (1); Streams of Whiskey, The Pogues (1); I’ll Be Gone, Dwight Yoakum (1); The Long Way Around, Dixie Chicks (1); Going Up the Country, Canned Heat (1); Homeward Bound, Simon & Garfunkel (1); Say Shh, Atmosphere (1); Good to Be on the Road Back Home, Cornershop (1); I Left my Heart in San Francisco, Tony Bennett (1); Back in the U.S.A., Chuck Berry (1); Girls & Boys, Blur (1); Fifty Years After the Fair, Aimee Mann (1); Maps, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (1); Amsterdam, Guster (1); This River is Wild, The Killers (1); New York, U2 (1); Home Sweet Home, Mötley Crüe (1)
Methodology
We asked World Hum contributors and editors to list, in order, what they think are the 10 greatest travel songs. Their top pick received 10 points, their No. 2 pick received 9 points, their No. 3 pick received 8 points, and so on. Tiebreakers: If two or more songs received the same number of points, the song with votes from the most voters scored higher. If two songs received the same number of points and number of voters, the song that received the highest picks from voters scored higher. For instance, a 19-point song that received scores of 10+7+2 beat a song that received scores of 10+6+3.
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