Last Train to Clarksville episodes of the band's television series, the most for any Monkees song. The song, written by the songwriting duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, has been compared to The Beatles' "Paperback Writer", particularly the "jangly" guitar sound, the chord structure, and the vocal harmonies. The Beatles song had been number one in the US charts three months earlier. The lyrics tell of a man phoning the woman he loves, urging her to meet him at a train station in Clarksville before he must leave, possibly forever. There was no explicit reference to war in the song but its last line,
Clarksville, Mississippi Clarksville, Mississippi Clarksville is a ghost town in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States. Located directly on the Mississippi River approximately south of Fort Adams, Clarksville was one of the earliest non-Native settlements in Mississippi, and was considered a place of great promise. Clark Creek joined the Mississippi River at Clarksville, and the settlement was located on the south bank of the creek. Approximately south of Clarksville is the historically-significant 31st parallel north, which now forms the border between Mississippi and Louisiana, and approximately south of Clarksville is the current location of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. In 1768, Daniel J. Clark,