The song actually isn't about Ubran living or once desiring the life of strip malls. If a little research is done, anyone can find out that the song is about a River called Susquehanna that runs down I-88 in Pennsylvania.
The Susquehanna was once populated by an Iroquoian tribe called the Susquehannok and also the Lenape. In the late part of the 18th century the Susquehanna was intentionally flooded killing off a major part of theses indigenous people. You can read about it The Pioneers (second book in a four book series about the early history of the midwest).
Two centuries later and the history's nearly forgotten by the general public. So what better to find in place of a once great tribe than sweet solace of suburbia. This song is actually about Suburban Blight and Manifest Destiny and how none of the kids currently growing up on the banks of Susquehanna will know of the carnage that once ravished the back yard that mom and dad try so hard to get them to mow before the can be driven to the theater to hang out with the other suburban children.
The song actually isn't about Ubran living or once desiring the life of strip malls. If a little research is done, anyone can find out that the song is about a River called Susquehanna that runs down I-88 in Pennsylvania.
The Susquehanna was once populated by an Iroquoian tribe called the Susquehannok and also the Lenape. In the late part of the 18th century the Susquehanna was intentionally flooded killing off a major part of theses indigenous people. You can read about it The Pioneers (second book in a four book series about the early history of the midwest).
Two centuries later and the history's nearly forgotten by the general public. So what better to find in place of a once great tribe than sweet solace of suburbia. This song is actually about Suburban Blight and Manifest Destiny and how none of the kids currently growing up on the banks of Susquehanna will know of the carnage that once ravished the back yard that mom and dad try so hard to get them to mow before the can be driven to the theater to hang out with the other suburban children.