" Wanderin' Star . "

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I am now listening to the Lee Marvin recording of the song " Wanderin' Star " , from the 1969 movie musical " Paint Your Wagon " which I'm aware is a very famous recording outside of the U.S. but is hardly known in the U.S. at all . I was alternating it with the OCA (Original Cast Album) recording of the song from its original version in the 1951 original cast of the Broadway version of " Paint Your Wagon " , sung by James Barton .
My parents had this LP in their LP collection and I know this version ! I never heard the Marvin version until very recently .
The lyrics to the 1951 and 1969 versions of the song are almost completely different ! (Look , I'll let you find 'em on YT for yourself , my bad computer skills . - That is , if anyone else here gives a f**k about this subject at all ...........
I suppose the situation the song describes is , if anything , rather the opposite of the experience of many Aspies m- we maybe tend not to roam much , either in our personal lives , where we live long-term , or even traveling very much ? Myself maybe being homeless makes me " wanderin' " , but it's not like I go around very much AT ALL , let alone " always w/my thumb stuck out , on the highway , happy as a clam like Woody or Jack " (Well , the protagonist f the song isn't totally happy about his WS-ness either .) - Even as a HL person , even before my DX , I noticed my endency to stick to a really small basic stomping grounds/area , like " a Magritte bourgeois " or something (ooh , a big f*****g high-faluting refence here ! Ain't I somethin' ?.

I remember hearing that song exactly once on the radio circa 1969 when I was circa 14. Coincendently it may have been on the car radio on a cross country road trip we made that year(so we were wanderin' ourselves at the time). Never heard it again. A guy with a rugged country type voice. Must have been Lee Marvin. "Never saw a sight that didn't look better looking back at it". Didn't know that it came from a broadway show.

Havent thought about the song since. Sounds more ADHD than aspie in sentiement.

...There is a commercial running on TV now , for Amazon Prime , which uses it .
The movie was one of that very large number of expensive movie musicals that were made in the late 60s in the wake of the great success of the My Fair Lady , Mary Poppins , and The Sound Of Music in the middle 6-s ~ with (at least according to legend) the late-60s musicals universally flopping big-time ! !! !! !! !! !!