Places Mentioned in The Song
Eight Iowa municipalities are named near the conclusion of the song, in the following order ("Hawkeye" is description of Iowa, not a town):
- Dubuque
- Des Moines
- Davenport
- Marshalltown
- Mason City (Willson’s birthplace)
- Keokuk
- Ames
- Clear Lake
Read more about this topic: Iowa Stubborn
Famous quotes containing the words places, mentioned and/or song:
“Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long- wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“She hears me strike the board and say
That she is under ban
Of all good men and women,
Being mentioned with a man
That has the worst of all bad names.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)