Nashville - The Sunny Cowgirls Traditional Cache

The Nashville Series of Geocaches is all about Country Music and highlighting great places to just sit and listen to it. Each of these Geocaches will be dedicated to a Country Music performer or writer that may or may not bear some relevance to the location it is placed in.

It is said that Country Music has a story in every song. A funny story, a sad story, an angry story, a happy story, a revenge story, a reminiscent story or just a plain old ‘Somebody done somebody wrong’ story. There is always a story to tell and it can usually be followed quite easily.

A few years back, I was suffering from very high levels of workplace stress resulting in Depression, Anxiety and quite a few Anger issues. Psychologists have attributed my switching the musical genre I listen to as a major step in overcoming some of these issues.

The theory goes that songs that have a story and that you can sing along to (like nobody is listening of course!) provide a necessary distraction from the stressors that can manifest themselves into high stress levels. Singing along quite loudly can also be used as a ‘relief-valve’ for stress that is already present.

I am now very lucky that I have a job driving Road Trains through the outback and my office consists of just me singing at the top of my (very bad) voice.

A. B. Banjo Patterson once described the Darling River as "a brown smudge between muddy banks" but Country Music has a more romantic view of it.

The Sunny Cowgirls sing about making their way on into Bourke so they can do some "Dancing on the Darling" and have some "good clean fun out in the sun with the Yellow Bellies below". Sitting in this location in the early morning, you can hear the Yellow Bellies (or some other type of fish) jumping out of the water and doing their own "Dancing on the Darling".