To make the time go smoother, and to soothe Sheryl, Kio sang an old, rambling song about the sea that his grandmother had taught him.

Of Montreal, which came out of the Elephant Six collective of neo-psychedelic bands in Athens, Ga., plays giddy, optimistic, harmonically rambling songs by Kevin Barnes.

Broken into chapters with title like "Incohere," "Bite Hard" or "Bell Boy," they sometimes recall the rambling early songs of Bob Dylan.

Yet another influence was the rambling 1930s and 1940s songs of Woody Guthrie.

On July 27, 2011, during a concert in Dallas, Texas, singer Caleb Followill appeared to be heavily intoxicated and slurred incomprehensibly between songs, often rambling about nothing.

Of Montreal, part of the Elephant Six collective of neo-psychedelic bands in Athens, Ga., plays giddy, optimistic, harmonically rambling songs by Kevin Barnes, who's clearly a Beach Boys and Beatles fan.

Mr. Haggard writes and sings love songs - often lost-love songs - but he also delves into songs of working-class discontent (the inevitable "Okie From Muskogee") rambling songs (like "White Line Fever," which he said the band no longer knew) and drinking songs.

The proof is that we have no end of rambling songs in every musical genre.

It's one of those rambling songs.