Post songs that make you want to hike

[MannDude]

If you're unfamiliar with Blaze Foley, you should probably get familiar. Sooo good.

Lyrics
I'm going down to the greyhound station
Gonna get a ticket to ride
Gonna find that lady with 2 or 3 kids
And sit down by her side
And ride until the sun comes up and down around me about 2 or 3 times
smoking cigarettes in the last seat trying
to hide my sorrow from the people I meet
And get along with it all
Go down where people say ya'll
Sing a song with a friend
Change the shape that I'm in
And get back in the game
And start playing again

I'd like to stay but I might have to go to start over again
I might go back down to Texas I might go somewhere that I've never been
And get up in the morning and go out at night
And I won't have to go home
Get used to being alone
Change the words to this song
And start singing again

I'm tired of running round looking for answers to questions that I
already know
I could build me a castle of memories just to have somewhere to go
Count the days and the nights that it takes to get back in the saddle
again
Feed the pigeons some clay
Turn the night into day
Start talking again if I know what to say

I'm going down to the greyhound station
Gonna get a ticket to ride
Gonna find that lady with 2 or 3 kids
And sit down by her side
And Ride until the sun comes up and down around about 2 or 3 times
smoking cigarettes in the last seat
trying to hide my sorrow from the people I meet

And get along with it all
Go down where people say ya'll
Feed the pigeons some clay
Turn the night into day
Start talking again when I know what to say

[Odd Man Out]

Across the Great Divide, Nanci Griffith

I've been walkin' in my sleep. Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep
Where the years went I can't say. I just turned around and they've gone away

I've been siftin' through the layers of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know and it was one that happened so long ago

Chorus: It's gone away in yesterday. Now I find myself on the moutainside
Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide

Now, I hear the owl a-callin'. Softly as the night was fallin'
With a question and I replied, but he's gone across the borderline Chorus

The finest hour that I have seen is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day. It's when the darkness rolls away Chorus Twice

[Blissful]

Main theme from Rudy. I hope to use it at my REI talk when I show my photo essay.

[Sarcasm the elf]

I know it's kind of Cliche, but the entire score that Eddie Vedder wrote for Into the Wild always works for me. The Ipod Shuffle in my pack also has a lot of music by Ani Difranco and Iron and Wine and Rasputina.

The album Raindogs by Tom Waits often makes an appearance as well, though I have no rational way of explaining why it does.

[Two Tents]

OK here you go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH_2W...watch_response

[Spokes]

1+ on Sarcasm the elf and Tom Waits.

"There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap baby, it's a deal............"

[Shiraz-mataz]

There's no song any better than James Taylor's "Gone to Carolina in my Mind"

[birchy]

Styx.... Man in the wilderness

[Ender]

Never heard of Blaze Foley before, but now I want to learn more about him. Great song. And the Tom Waits song is great too, wonderfully weird.

This song always makes me think about hiking...

[Pedaling Fool]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcvHjqh5EyY

[birchy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf-S7...yer_detailpage

[russb]

Not a song, but a poem. I suppose one could put it to music. The Call of the Wild. By Robert Service

[4eyedbuzzard]

Truckin' got my chips cashed in...

​Y'all know the rest

[-SEEKER-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hY...eature=related

[doritotex]

Ummm..."Take this Job and Shove It"..makes me want to call in sick and go hiking!!!

[Chaco Taco]

[CMags]

Del McCourey- Take me to the Mountains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZPnMaNDAhQ

[Spokes]

Junior Brown "My Wife Thinks Your Dead"

[sonic]

Ummm..."Take this Job and Shove It"..makes me want to call in sick and go hiking!!!

Oh, Oh, that's a good one.

[tee]

I find it strange that this song compels me to hike, but "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y

(Though my favorite version is by RealityChangers and his adorable daughter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L64c5...eature=related)