Pop Songs about Iowa/Iowa Towns

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The Fort Dodge song "Kothomo" still eludes me.

 

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Bob Seger. On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha.

 

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30 Seconds over Otho

 

[Isualum13]

Just scrolling the Instagram and this popped up. Not searching every page to see if someone already shared.

 

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Sullivan Boys of Waterloo:

 

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Iowa's Templeton Rye

 

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Lyrics

Baby, what do you say we just get lost
Leave this one horse town like two rebels without a cause
I've got people in Boston, ain't your daddy still in Des Moines
We can pack up tomorrow, tonight let's flip a coin… Full lyrics

 

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This song is about the Mississippi flowing past Rock Island, Illinois.

Close enough to the Bettendorf and Davenport side for me.

Is that Nessie at the center right of this still?

 

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Is that Nessie at the center right of this still?

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Why yes it is.

 

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Ah some country with lyrics:

"Up there in Des Moines they knew my songs line by line..."

 

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Instrumental by Icelandic band 2010, "Rome Iowa."

 

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Henry Wallace was an Iowan who rightly should have been a force in the World:

Henry A. Wallace - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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"I-O-W-A now"

 

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"LeLand, Iowa," by Kevin Costner.

 

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Parnell, Iowa song

 

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There is only one city named Cedar Rapids in the United States — Cedar Rapids, Iowa and it's in this song:​

John Prine - Taking A Walk​