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Hoyt Axton: Never Been to Spain Meaning

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  1. anonymous
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     Aug 6th 2023 !⃝

    "They tell me I was born there" would refer to the fact that Hoyt Axton was actually born in Oklahoma.

  2. anonymous
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     Sep 1st 2021 !⃝

    Axton makes references to different areas he's been to and some he hasn't been to in the song Never Been To Spain. The locales he mentions are irrelevant. The song is about not having connection to one's birthplace, one's home, and of having a sense of rootlessness. Listen to the song treatment by Three Dog Night. It starts out matter of fact and quiet in the beginning, then switches to all-out emotion at full volume, while wistfully acknowledging that he's been to Oklahoma but that it's just another state, just another place. He has no emotional connection to it and no memory of it. "Well they tell me I was born there, but I really don't remember. In Oklahoma, not Arizona -- WHAT DOES IT MATTER???" It doesn't matter to him because it doesn't hold any meaning for him.

  3. anonymous
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     Oct 19th 2014 !⃝

    Hoyt was living in Southern California. He had a gig in Las Vegas. He tried to drive a Mercedes to Las Vegas but it blew up on him and he had to have it towed back to CA. This is the song he wrote when he got back home and had some wine with his roommates.

  4. anonymous
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     Apr 21st 2014 !⃝

    The singer most likely lives in Yuma, Arizona.

    Why? Because he's "been to Oklahoma." In fact, he was "born there, but I really don't remember". He then stresses "in Oklahoma, not Arizona," kind of an odd emphasis if there isn't some logical reason for whomever he's speaking to to confuse them ... such as, perhaps, the fact that he CURRENTLY lives in Arizona.

    Also, he "headed for Las Vegas" but "only made it out to Needles." The only place in Arizona for which going through Needles to get to Las Vegas makes sense is the Yuma area. Even from as relatively near as Phoenix, there's a more direct route that bypasses Needles.


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