Bobby Troup wrote the song “Route 66” on a road trip across the country, even rattling off locations along the way, but for some reason left out Albuquerque—maybe because it was hard to find something that rhymed with it.
better to give up and do as Prefab Sprout did,
hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe4_3EazskA
