List of songs about cities
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This is a list of songs about different cities in the world, from both traditional and pop music.
[edit] Australia
[edit] Melbourne
Main article: List of songs about Melbourne
[edit] Sydney
Main article: List of songs about Sydney
[edit] Brazil
[edit] São Salvador
- "Na Baixa do sapateiro" by Ary Barroso
[edit] Fortaleza
- "As Velas do Mucuripe", by Fagner
- "Praia de Iracema", by Ary Lobo
[edit] Porto Alegre
- "Deu pra ti", by Kleiton e Kledir
- "Anoiteceu em Porto Alegre", by Engenheiros do Hawaii
[edit] Recife
- "Coração Bobo", by Alceu Valença
- "La Belle du Jour", by Alceu Valença
- "No Romper da Aurora", by Alceu Valença
- "Para um amor no Recife", by Paulinho da Viola
- "Recife, minha cidade", by Reginaldo Rossi
- "Recife, cidade lendária", by Capiba
[edit] Rio de Janeiro
- "Cidade Maravilhosa" by Andre Filho (1935)
- "Do Leme ao Pontal" by Tim Maia
- "Rio 40 Graus" by Fernanda Abreu
- "Samba do Avião" by Tom Jobim
- "Flying Down to Rio", theme song from the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film of the same name
- "Rio" by Michael Nesmith from his album From a Radio Engine to the Photon Wing.
- "I Go to Rio" by Pablo Cruise on the album Worlds Away
- "Cariocas" by Adriana Calcanhotto
- "Rio de Janiero" by Ugly Duckling
[edit] São Paulo
- "Sampa" by Caetano Veloso
- "São Paulo, São Paulo", by Premeditando o Breque
- "São, São Paulo", by Tom Zé
- "Avenida Paulista", by Rita Lee
- "Coração Paulista", by Guilherme Arantes
- "São Paulo", by Guillemots
- "Não existe amor em SP", by ((Criolo))
[edit] Canada
[edit] Montreal
Main article: List of songs about Montreal
[edit] Toronto
Main article: List of songs about Toronto
[edit] Vancouver
Main article: List of songs about Vancouver
[edit] Winnipeg
- Weakerthans - "One Great City!"
- "Prairie Town" by Randy Bachman, Neil Young, and even Margo Timmins.
[edit] China
[edit] Hong Kong
- "Hong Kong" by Gorillaz
- "Hong Kong Garden" by Siouxsie and the Banshees (Note: while this song has references to Hong Kong, it was inspired by a restaurant in Chislehurst in London)
- "Hong Kong" song by Ganymede
[edit] Dominican Republic
[edit] San Pedro de Macorís
[edit] France
[edit] Paris
Main article: List of songs about Paris
[edit] Germany
[edit] Berlin
Main article: List of songs about Berlin
[edit] Israel
[edit] Jerusalem
Main article: List of songs about Jerusalem
[edit] Japan
[edit] Tokyo
Main article: List of songs about Tokyo
[edit] Fukuoka
[edit] Kyoto
- "Alone in Kyoto" by Air
[edit] Nagasaki
- Nagasaki Wa Kyou Mo Ame Datta (長崎は今日も雨だった) by Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five (内山田洋とクール・ファイブ)
- Nagasaki (Ναγκασάκι) by Tzimis Panousis
[edit] Yokohama
- Blue Light Yokohama by Ayumi Ishida (石田 あゆみ)
[edit] Korea
[edit] Seoul
- "Seoul", sung by Lee Yong[1]
- "Seoul, Seoul, Seoul" sung by Cho Yong-pil[1]
- "Seoul 1987" sung by Cho Yong-pil[2]
- "Seoului changa" (literally, "Song in praise of Seoul") sung by Patti Kim[1]
[edit] Busan
- Dorawayo Busan Hang E (돌아와요 부산항에) sung by Cho Yong Pil
[edit] Mexico
[edit] Tampico
- "Tampico" by June Christy
[edit] Tiajuana
- "Tiajuana Jail" by Kingston Trio
- "Born in East L.A." by Cheech Marin
[edit] Nepal
[edit] Kathmandu
- "Katmandu" by Bob Seger
[edit] Netherlands
[edit] Amsterdam
Amsterdam - Coldplay
Main article: List of songs about Amsterdam
[edit] Den Haag (The Hague)
- "In Den Haag Is Een Laan" by Conny Vandenbos
- "Wat Voor Weer Zou Het Zijn In Den Haag?" by Conny Stuart
- "O O Den Haag" by Harry Klorkestein
[edit] Nijmegen
- "Nijmegen bij Zonsondergang" by Frank Boeijen
[edit] Utrecht
- "Weg van Utrecht" by Het Goede Doel, Herman van Veen and Spinvis
[edit] Portugal
[edit] Lisbon
- "Lisboa, Menina e Moça" by Carlos do Carmo
- "Lisbon" by Angra
- "Cheira bem, cheira a Lisboa" by Amália Rodrigues
[edit] Russia
[edit] Moscow
Main article: List of songs about Moscow
[edit] South Africa
[edit] Johannesburg
- "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" by Eddy Grant
- "Johannesburg" by Gil Scott-Heron
- "Zondag in Soweto" by Stef Bos
[edit] Sweden
[edit] Stockholm
Main article: List of songs about Stockholm
[edit] Gothenburg
- "Känn Ingen Sorg För Mig Göteborg" by Håkan Hellström from his album Känn Ingen Sorg För Mig Göteborg
- "Kalendervägen 113.D" by Jens Lekman from bonus EP included with the initial pre-order copies of his album Night Falls Over Kortedala
[edit] Thailand
[edit] Bangkok
- "A Passage to Bangkok" by Rush in their album 2112
- "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head (though there's an album by the same name One Night in Bangkok by the German band Sodom)
[edit] Turkey
[edit] Ankara
- "Ankara" by Vega (band)
- Ankara'da Aşık Olmak Zuhal Olcay
[edit] Istanbul
- "Sensiz İstanbul'a Düşmanım" by Gripin
- "İstanbul İstanbul Olalı" by Sezen Aksu
- "İstanbul'da Sonbahar" by Teoman
- "Yarim İstanbul" by Levent Yüksel
- "İstanbul" by Duman
- "Bu Sabah Yağmur var İstanbul'da" by MFÖ
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] Birmingham
Main article: List of songs about Birmingham
[edit] Liverpool
Main article: List of songs about Liverpool
[edit] London
Main article: List of songs about London
[edit] Manchester
Main article: List of songs about Manchester
[edit] United States
[edit] Abilene
[edit] Albuquerque
- "Albuquerque" by "Weird" Al Yankovic
- "Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque" by Tony Romeo
- "Albuquerque" by Neil Young
- "Albuquerque" by Sons of the Desert
[edit] Allentown
- "Allentown" by Billy Joel
- "Allentown Jail" by Kingston Trio
[edit] Amarillo
- "Is This the Way to Amarillo" by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield
- "Amarillo by Morning" by George Strait
- "If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)" by Don Williams
- "Amarillo Sky" by Jason Aldean
[edit] Anchorage
[edit] Atlanta
Main article: List of songs about Atlanta
[edit] Arlington, Virginia
- "Arlington" by Trace Adkins
[edit] Austin
- "Austin in My Sights" by The Bluescasters
- "Amy's Back In Austin" by Little Texas
- "Austin" by Blake Shelton
[edit] Baltimore
- "Raining in Baltimore" by Counting Crows
- "Streets of Baltimore" by Bobby Bare
- "Willie Jones" by the Charlie Daniels Band
- "Hungry Heart" by Bruce Springsteen
[edit] Beaumont, Texas
- "Pretty Little Lady From Beaumont, Texas" by George Jones
- "The Night's Too Long" by Patty Loveless
[edit] Birmingham
Main article: List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama
[edit] Boston
Main article: List of songs about Boston
[edit] Chicago
Main article: List of songs about Chicago
[edit] Cleveland
- "Burn On" by Randy Newman
- "Christmas in Cleveland" by The Raveonettes
- "Cleveland" by Jewel
- "Cleveland is the City" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
- "Cleveland" by All-Time Quarterback
- "Cleveland is the Reason" by Kid Cudi
- "Cleveland Rocks" by Ian Hunter
- "Cuyahoga" by REM
- "The Heart of Rock & Roll" by Huey Lewis and the News
- "In the Heartland" by the Michael Stanley Band
- "Let's Move to Cleveland" by Frank Zappa
- "Look Out, Cleveland" by The Band
- "Mean Night in Cleveland" by Cactus
- "Missing Cleveland" by Scott Weiland
- "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" by Bowling for Soup
- "Skinny Little Boy from Cleveland" by Alex Bevan
- "There's No Surf in Cleveland" by the Euclid Beach Band
- "Pancho and Lefty" by Townes Van Zandt, covered by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
- "Cleveland Ohio Blues" by Bull Moose Jackson
[edit] Dallas
- "Dallas Days and Fort Worth Nights" by Chris LeDoux
- "Dallas" by Alan Jackson
- "Big D" from The Most Happy Fella
- "Goin Through The Big D" by Mark Chesnutt
- "Dallas" by Holly McNarland
- "I Drove Her To Dallas" by Ty England
- "Dallas" by Johnny Winter
- "Trudy" by the Charlie Daniels Band
- "Dallas After Midnight" by Ray Wylie Hubbard (with Jack Ingram)
- "Dallas" by The Flatlanders
- "People In Dallas Got Hair" by Waylon Jennings
- "Pecos Promenade" by Tanya Tucker
[edit] Denver
- "Get Out of Denver" by Bob Seger
- "O.D.'d in Denver" by Hank Williams Jr.
[edit] Detroit
Main article: List of songs about Detroit
[edit] El Paso
- "El Paso" by Marty Robbins ("Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl...")
- "Texas Women" by Hank Williams Jr.
- "El Paso" by Old 97's
[edit] Flagstaff
- "Convoy" by C.W. McCall
[edit] Fort Worth
- "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind" by George Strait
- "Dallas Days and Fort Worth Nights" by Chris LeDoux
[edit] Galveston
- "Galveston" by Jimmy Webb
- "Pecos Promenade" by Tanya Tucker
[edit] Houston
- "Bloody Mary Morning" by Willie Nelson
- "Houston" by R.E.M.
- "Telephone Road" by Steve Earle
- "Telephone Road" by Rodney Crowell
- "Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You)" by Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
- "Uneasy Rider '88" by the Charlie Daniels Band
- "Dixie On My Mind" by Hank Williams Jr.
[edit] Jackson, Mississippi
- "Jackson Mississippi" by Kid Rock
- "Jackson" by Johnny Cash & June Carter
- "Uneasy Rider" by the Charlie Daniels Band
[edit] Kansas City
- "Kansas City", from the musical Oklahoma! ("Everything's up to date in Kansas City...")
- "Kansas City", performed by Wilbert Harrison
- "Kansas City Lights" by Steve Wariner
- "Kansas City Kitty" by Walter Donaldson
- "18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)" by Cat Stevens
- "Kansas City" by Jay McShann
- "Train from Kansas City" by Neko Case
- "Kansas City" by Sneaky Sound System.
[edit] La Grange, Texas
[edit] Laredo
- "Streets of Laredo" (old cowboy song)
- "Laredo" by Band of Horses
[edit] Las Vegas
- "Viva Las Vegas" by Elvis Presley
- "Let's Go To Vegas" by Faith Hill
- "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson
- "Vegas" by Sara Bareilles
- "Waking Up in Vegas" by Katy Perry
- "Leaving Las Vegas" by Sheryl Crow
[edit] Laurel, Mississippi
- "Goin' Down to Laurel" by Steve Forbert
[edit] Little Rock
- "Little Rock" by Free Micah
- "Little Rock" by Collin Raye
[edit] Los Angeles
Main article: List of songs about Los Angeles
[edit] Luckenbach, Texas
[edit] Mayberry, North Carolina
- "Mayberry March" by Andy Griffith
[edit] Marina del Rey
[edit] Memphis
- "Memphis, Tennessee" by Chuck Berry
- "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam Tillis
- "Truck Drivin' Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn
- "Nothing 'Bout Memphis" by Trisha Yearwood
- "Wrong Side of Memphis" by Trisha Yearwood
- "Queen of Memphis" by Confederate Railroad
- "Memphis" by Johnny Rivers
- "Memphis" by PJ Harvey
- "Memphis Blues" by W. C. Handy
- "Messed Up In Memphis" by Darryl Worley
- "Memphis Skyline" by Rufus Wainwright
- "Memphis Belle" by Hank Williams Jr.
- "Guitar Man" by Jerry Reed
[edit] Miami
Main article: List of songs about Miami
[edit] Muskogee, Oklahoma
[edit] Nashville
Main article: List of songs about Nashville
[edit] New Orleans
Main article: List of songs about New Orleans
[edit] New York City
Main article: List of songs about New York City
- "New York I love you But you're bringing me down", by LCD Soundsystem
[edit] Olema, California
- "Hippie From Olema" by The Youngbloods
[edit] Olympia
- "Rock Star" by Hole (from the album Live Through This)
[edit] Omaha
- "Convoy" by C.W. McCall
- "Omaha" by Counting Crows
- "Turn the Page" by Bob Seger
- "Uneasy Rider" by the Charlie Daniels Band
[edit] Panama City, Florida
- "Guitar Man" by Jerry Reed
[edit] Philadelphia
- "Phildelphia" by Neil Young
- "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John
- "Sailing to Philadelphia" by Mark Knopfler
- "Sit Down, John" from the musical 1776
- "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Yo Home to Bel-Air" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
[edit] Phoenix
- "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Jimmy Webb
- "Anybody Going To San Antone" by Charley Pride
[edit] Reno
- "Reno Bound" by Southern Pacific
- "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash
[edit] Richmond, Virginia
- "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde" by Travis Tritt
- "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band
- "We Are Marching On To Richmond" aka "Our knapsacks sling" (Union Civil War song) words and music by E.W. Locke [3] [4]
[edit] South Park, Colorado
- "Going Down To South Park" by Primus
- "Mountain Town" from the South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (soundtrack)
[edit] St. Louis
[edit] San Antonio
- "New San Antonio Rose" by Bob Wills
- "San Antonio Stroll" by Tanya Tucker
- "Anybody Going To San Antone" by Charlie Pride
- "San Antonio Rose" by Lee Ann Womack
- "It Came from San Antonio" by Bruce Robison
- "Remember the Alamo" by George Strait
- "Across the Alley from the Alamo" by Bob Wills
- "San Antonio Romeo" by Tish Hinojosa
- "San Antone" by Denny Brooks
[edit] Santa Fe
- "Santa Fe" by The Bellamy Brothers
- "Santa Fe" by The Bluescasters
[edit] San Francisco
[edit] Seattle
Main article: List of songs about Seattle
[edit] Shanksville, Pennsylvania
- "Let's Roll" by Ray Stevens
- "Have You Forgotten?" by Darryl Worley
[edit] Thibodaux, Louisiana
- "Amos Moses" by Jerry Reed
[edit] Tucson
- "Send Me Down To Tucson" by Mel Tillis
[edit] Tulsa
- "Tulsa Time" by Don Williams
- "Tulsa Turnaround" by Kenny Rogers
- "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma" by David Frizzell & Shelly West
- "The Day That She Left Tulsa" by Wade Hayes
- "24 Hours From Tulsa" — Gene Pitney
- "Almost to Tulsa" – Buddy Charleton
- "Don't Let the Sun Set on You in Tulsa" - Waylon Jennings
- "Don't Make Me Come to Tulsa" - Wade Hayes
- "Halfway to Tulsa" – Larry Sparks
- "Last Trip to Tulsa" – Neil Young
- "Take Me Back to Oklahoma" – Chubby Checker
- "Take Me Back to Oklahoma" – Henson Cargill
- "Take Me Back to Tulsa" - Bob Wills
- "Tampa to Tulsa" – The Jayhawks
- "Tear Drops in Tulsa" – Mustang Mesa
- "Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa" - George Strait
- "Ten Miles to Tulsa" – Billy & Liza
- "Tulsa" – Rufus Wainwright
- "Tulsa" – Travis Linville and the Burtschi Brothers
- "Tulsa" – Wayne "The Train" Hancock
- "Tulsa Baby" –Dave Stogner
- "Tulsa County" –The Byrds
- "Tulsa Girl" - Dwight Twilley
- "Tulsa on a Saturday Night" – Benny Kubiak
- "Tulsa Queen" –Emmylou Harris
- "The Tulsa Shuffle" – The Tractors
- "Tulsa Sounds Like Trouble to Me" – Shawn Camp
- "Tulsa Straight Ahead" – Jimmy Hall
- "Tulsa Telephone Book" – Tom T. Hall
- "Convoy" - C.W. McCall
[edit] Wichita
- "Wichita Lineman" by Jimmy Webb
- "Wichita Skyline" by Shawn Colvin
- "True Dreams of Wichita" by Soul Coughing
[edit] Vietnam
[edit] Saigon
- "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel
- "Saigon" by Martha and the Muffins
- "Saigon Bride" by Joan Baez
- "Saigon Ơi Vĩnh Biệt" (Saigon, Goodbye) by Nam Lộc - an anthem for Vietnamese refugees having to flee their homeland after the Fall of Saigon.
- "Still in Saigon" by the Charlie Daniels Band
- "Saigon" by Barry Sadler
[edit] Other
[edit] Bedrock
- "Bedrock Twitch" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Park, Jeong-ho (박정호) (2008-05-30). "(BOOK북카페) 가요로 되돌아본 `서울~ 서울~ 서울` 70년 [(Book cafe) Looking back into Seoul~Seoul~Seoul during the past 70 years with popular songs]" (in Korean). Ilgan Sports. http://isplus.joins.com/article/article.html?aid=950466.
- ^ Kim, Gyu-won (김규원) (1998-06-25). "['Forever Darling' Always with Us]" (in Korean). 늘 우리 곁에 있는 ‘영원한 오빠’. Hankyereh 21. http://www.hani.co.kr/h21/data/L980615/1p9e6f03.html.
- ^ http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/usa/oknapsak.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of5kB_ozXy0 http://books.google.com/books?id=hEgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=marching+on+to+richmond+sling&source=bl&ots=yOXZizczym&sig=PM2t0oUfG7SZrHQjecUIGWWsIPQ&hl=en#v=onepage&q=marching%20on%20to%20richmond%20sling&f=false
- ^ http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200001577/200001577.pdf