Talk:Ramblin' Man (Lemon Jelly song)

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[edit] Uncertain places

  • Arumpo — Is Arumpo a proper place? Google suggests only a mine, but is there a settlement there, or is this perhaps a misspelling of somewhere else completely?
  • Atlantis — Does he actually say Atlantis here?
    • I rather thought it was *Atlanta* - which is some place John Standing is a bit more likely to have traveled to.
  • Mendhurst — Can't find much about this on Google; does he actually say Mendhurst here?
  • Prawle — No idea if this is the spelling; best I can do is three nearby and associated toponyms in Devon.
  • Rayburn — Is this what he says? This fairly unremarkable place seems unlikely and could be misheard.
  • Runcton — Is this what he says?
  • Shennington — Is this what he says?
  • Valmorel — Is this what he says? Could well be as it appears to be a ski resort of some kind.

Rhomboid Man 03:51, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

there's a site that has most of the places on it http://www.hovington.com/lemonjelly/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.121.72 (talk • contribs) 12:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, yes, but that's a lyrics site, there are plenty of them about! The point is that whoever transcribed the lyrics may have made mistakes. You'll notice that the page you link to has all the places I've listed above as they are written. It also makes additional mistakes, like the non-existent "Rangu" for what I'm fairly sure is "Rangoon". Rhomboid Man 13:26, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

The hovington site was actually made with input from Nick of the Jelly and is probably correct in most instances - any other lyrics site that has the same place names would have been sourced from there. There was a long running thread on the Lemon Jelly forum where Nick made corrections for the benefit of the owner of the hovington site and promised to provide the unclear names at the end once the rest of it was correct (unfortunately the thread has now disappeared so I can only verify this statement by saying I recall it well). Either it still isn't completely correct or he's forgotten to provide the updates...

Apparently many of the place names were flashed up during a gig and "Rangu" was one of them - there is a Rangu in Estonia. San Francisco is definitely "San Frandisco". - Eke --194.131.108.2 14:27, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, okay, that makes things considerably more complicated then! If anyone who remembers this original thread can make corrections that would be very helpful. I saw "San Frandisco" on a lyrics site that had presumably copied from the hovington site and assumed it must have been a typo. Thanks for letting me know about this. Rhomboid Man 12:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Toronto is a city listed, yet Canada is not red on the map. Could we also have a zoomed-in map of England to show all the locations there?