Where I Wanna Be

[Mark A Becker]

It's a song. I post songs in potd, but at this point I just trust the interested find the original, or a decent cover. This one---any recordings you can grace us with?

I feel like "I just wanna go / where I wanna be" should be a refrain just before the chorus. Switch out the two "Walkin" lines with a different image + "I just wanna go". And, possibly, slightly change the second line overall so that you're already on the hills, like "Headin up the hills".

Analytical note: why "West by God"? I imagine we're all west *of* God, as he's like the sun to us, but that ain't what you sayin. A cursory interpretation here's God's another direction, like north by northwest, perhaps a sort of transcendent east, but still, why *west*? My leaning-to-the-east mind is puzzled xD I'd love to hear your reason, or *anecdotal* lack thereof

Hey Notch-
You've got some good suggestions. Have not recorded this yet, only done "live", though I think my son may have recorded with his phone.  Anywho, playing this "live" is all I'm intersted at this point because at my age I'm just glad to still get ideas (well past 60 now).

West by God, as in West by God Virginia, meaning West Virginia.  That phrase to describe WVa has been around in the USA for who really knows how long, with the emphasis on "By God." 

Good explanantion below:
"The use of “by God” in language dates back to the Anglo-Saxons, but it became common place in the 1600s, according to Eric Waggoner, the executive director of the West Virginia Humanities Council. Waggoner is also a retired history of English teacher.

Waggoner said “by God” has always been used as a way to emphasize something. He sees the inclusion of it in “West by God Virginia” as an expression of pride, when so much of the world perceives West Virginia in a negative light."