Johnsburg, Illinois
Just for fun and posterity - here's a lyric from Tom Waits about the town I grew up in. I wonder who the girl was...
She's my only true love
she's all that I think of
look here in my wallet
that's her
She grew up on a farm there
there's a place on my arm
where I've written her name
next to mine
you see I just can't
live without her
and I'm her only boy
and she grew up outside McHenry
in Johnsburg, Illinois
posted by Far Away, So Close @ 11:35 AM
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2 Comments:
I am sure the Googling fool lately! ;) I was wondering the same thing. It's about his wife, Kathleen Brennen, who grew up there:
(1983): My wife is from Johnsburg, Illinois. It's right outside McHenry and up by the ching-a-lings. She grew up on a farm up there. So it's [Johnsburg Illinois] dedicated to her. It's real short. Somehow I wanted just to get it all said in one verse. There are times when you work on a song and end up repeating in the second verse what you already said in the first. So I thought I would be more appropriate if it's just like a feeling of a sailor somewhere in a cafe, who opens his wallet and turns to the guy next to him and shows him the picture while he's talking about something else and says: "Oh, here. That's her." and then closes his wallet and puts it back in his pants." (Source: "Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones ". Island Promo interview, 1983)
Hope you enjoyed.... J
Is chingalings supposed to be slang for the chain o lakes?? I never heard that before. I know it ain't asian people - Ha!!
Good research, J. Maybe you should start the Burger Historical Society.
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