It means to travel or to leave a place, as suggested in this song, "Hit the Road."

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Often,they sang about the long ride to the cattle markets where the cows were sold for beef, as in this song called, "Git Along Little Dogie."

VOA: special.2010.03.25

Listen to this Les Paul recording. It was the fifth most popular song in the United States in nineteen fifty-two.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

This song is about the happiness that the season promises, including going to a "county fair in the country sun."

VOA: special.2009.06.22

It was during this time in New York that Woody wrote what became his most famous song, "This Land is Your Land."

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Finally, on a happier note comes this song written and recorded by Fountains of Wayne in 2003.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

In the nineteen nineties, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince produced this hip-hop song called "Summertime."

VOA: special.2009.06.22

This song by the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim first became famous in the early nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Moore's sax work can be heard on this song, "Lying in the Hands of God."

VOA: special.2009.08.28

In 1968, the group Blood, Sweat and Tears recorded this gentle, sad song about winter.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

In the early 1990s, Tori Amos wrote and recorded this beautiful song called "Winter."

VOA: special.2009.01.26

She sang this song in a nineteen forty-three musical movie of the same name.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

In nineteen-forty-six, Nat King Cole came out with this song, called "Route Sixty-Six."

VOA: special.2010.01.11

The Mamas and the Papas recorded this famous song, "California Dreamin'," in 1965.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

This song was the group's first Top 40 hit in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

This song by K.D.Lang is about dreaming of spring in cold dark places.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

There is this feeling in the song "I Ride an Old Paint."

VOA: special.2010.03.25

The British rock group Queen recorded this song in the nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

This song expresses how he feels living in exile.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

"And we developed this system of expressing ourselves in a song called a Pisiq.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

In this version the Sway Machinery backs up Arby's voice. (Speaking) Arby says the song is about working together in peace on the land, working together in understanding.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25