“Going
where the weather suits my clothes” is an old hobo saying from the early
1900s. Fred Neil, a singer songwriter, used the phrase in 1966 when he
wrote Everybody’s Talkin’. The Harry Nilsson version of Everybody’s
Talkin’ was a hit in 1969. It was an even bigger hit after it was
featured in Midnight Cowboy.
The
song is about not being able to connect with the busy bustling world and
wanting to go back home to a simpler time. The cool thing is, the guy who
wrote this song, Fred Neil, he made enough in royalties to do what he wrote
about. He moved back home to Florida and retired into obscurity.
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