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 Historic District (Clarksville, Missouri) Clarksville Historic District (Clarksville, Missouri) Clarksville Historic District is a national historic district located at Clarksville, Pike County, Missouri. The district encompasses 65 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Clarksville. It developed between about 1840 and 1930, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Clifford-Wyrick House. Other notable buildings include the City Hall (1910), Sentinel Building (1867-1871), Clifford Banking Company (c. 1887), La Crosse Lumber Company (1923), Presbyterian Church, Methodist Church (1906), Masonic Temple (1903), and Clarksville Public Library (1910).