List of songs about cities

This is a list of songs about different cities in the world, from both traditional and pop music.

Amarillo

• Is This the Way to Amarillo by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield

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)

Belgrade

• Beograde by [[]]
• Za Beograd by [[]]
• by [[]]

Berlin

Main article: List of songs about Berlin

Boston

Main article: List of songs about Boston

• "As We Walk to Fenway Park in Boston Town" by Jonathan Richman
• "Bank of Boston Beauty Queen" by The Dresden Dolls
• "Beantown" by John Cena
• "Bigger Things in Mind" by Westbound Train
• "Bill Lee" (Boston Red Sox pitcher, 1969-1978) by Warren Zevon
• "Blue Thunder" by Galaxie 500
• "Billy Ruane" by Varsity Drag (Ben Deily)
• "Boston" by Augustana
• "Boston" by The Byrds
• "Boston" by The Dresden Dolls
• "Boston" by emmet swimming
• "Boston" by Horror Show
• "Boston" by Kenny Chesney
• "Boston" by Paulson
• "Boston" by The Party of Helicopters
• "Boston" by Patty Griffin
• "Boston" by Vampire Weekend
• "Boston and St. John's" by Great Big Sea
• "Boston Asphalt" by the Dropkick Murphys
• "Boston Babies" by G.B.H.
• "Boston Belongs To Me," by Death Before Dishonor
• "Boston Jail" by Porter Wagoner
• "Boston Rose" by Liam Reilly
• "Boston Subway" by The Pubcrawlers
• "Boston United" by The Unseen
• "Boston, USA" by The Ducky Boys
• "Bostons" by Have Heart
• "Bunker Hill" by Michael Penn
• "Charlie on the M.T.A." by The Kingston Trio
• "The Chosen Few" by the Dropkick Murphys
• "Dirty Water" by The Standells
• "Driving on 9" by The Breeders
• "Etoh" by The Avalanches
• "Fairmount Hill" by the Dropkick Murphys
• "The Fenway" by Jonathan Richman
• "For Boston" originally by T.J. Hurley (and, more recently, by the Dropkick Murphys)
• "Girlfriend" by Jonathan Richman
• "Government Center" by Jonathan Richman
• "I Want My City Back" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• "The Ice of Boston" by The Dismemberment Plan
• "I'm Shipping up to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys
• "I'm Yours Boston" by Big D and the Kids Table
• "In Defense of Dorchester" by the Street Dogs
• "Logan to Government Center" by Brand New
• "Mass Pike" by The Get Up Kids
• "Massachusetts" by Bee Gees
• "My Sister" by Juliana Hatfield
• "Normal Town" by Better Than Ezra
• "Please Come to Boston" by Dave Loggins
• "Pipe Bomb on Lansdowne Street" by the Dropkick Murphys
• "Riot on Broad Street" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• "Roadrunner" by Jonathan Richman
• "Rock and Roll Band" by Boston
• "Savin Hill" by Street Dogs
• "Shot Heard 'Round the World" by Ween
• "Skinhead on the MBTA" by the Dropkick Murphys
• "Subway" by Mary Lou Lord
• "Sweet Baby James" by James Taylor
• "Tessie" by Dropkick Murphys
• "The End of Radio" by Shellac
• "There's A Black Hole in the Shadow of the Pru" by American Nightmare
• "They Came To Boston" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• "Wicked Little Critta" by They Might Be Giants

Capitol City, USA

• Capital City by Tony Bennett

Chicago

Main article: List of songs about Chicago

• "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce
• "Best Wishes to your Black Lung" by Less Than Jake
• "Chicago at Night" by Spoon
• "Chicago Bound" by Jimmy Rogers
• "Chicago Fanphair '93" by Local H
• "Chicago Institute" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
• "Chicago is So Two Years Ago" by Fall Out Boy
• "Chicago Song" by David Sanborn
• "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" by Fred Fisher, popularized by Frank Sinatra
• "Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens
• "Come On! Feel the Illinoise! by Sufjan Stevens
• "Far, Far Away" by Wilco
• "Go Go Gadget Flow" by Lupe Fiasco
• "Going to Chicago Blues" by The Count Basie Orchestra
• "Goodbye to Guyville" by Urge Overkill
• "Growing Up" by Fall Out Boy
• "Hands Open" by Snow Patrol
• "Happy Summertime" by R. Kelly
• "Hitch Hike" by The Rolling Stones
• "Home" by Kanye West
• "Homecoming" by Kanye West, featuring Chris Martin
• "Homesick at Spacecamp" by Fall Out Boy
• In the Ghetto" by Elvis Presley
• "Jesus Just Left Chicago" by ZZ Top
• "Lake Shore Driving" by Duran Duran
• "Lincoln Park Pirates" by Steve Goodman
• "Little Joe from Chicago" by Nat King Cole
• "Lincoln Park Pirates" by Steve Goodman
• "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" by Brian Wilson
• "(Chicago is) My Kind of Town" by Frank Sinatra
• "On The South Side of Chicago" by Freddy Cole
• "Peace Frog" by The Doors
• "Prairie Song" by Billy Corgan
• "Stratford-On-Guy" by Liz Phair
• "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson, covered by The Blues Brothers
• "Take Me Back To Chicago" by Chicago
• "That's That" by Snoop Dog ft R. Kelly
• "Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Two Words" by Mos Def
• "Via Chicago" by Wilco
• "We Ride" by Jay-Z

El Paso

• El Paso by Marty Robbins ("Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl...")

Fort Worth

• Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind by George Strait

Galveston

• Galveston by Jimmy Webb

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong by Gorillaz
• Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie & the Banshees (Note: while this song has references to HK, it was inspired by a restaurant in Chislehurst in London)

Jerusalem

Main article: List of songs about Jerusalem

• "Al Quds Al Atiqa" (Arabic: القدس العتيقة, "Jerusalem's Ancient Streets") by Fairuz
• "Al Quds" (Arabic: القدس, "Jerusalem") by Latifa and Kazem al-Saher
• "Al Quds De Ardina" (Arabic: القدس دي أرضنا, "Jerusalem is Our Land") by Amr Diab
• "Crusader" by Chris de Burgh
• "Jerusalem" by Black Sabbath
• "Jerusalem" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• "Jerusalem" by Sinéad O'Connor
• "Silent Eyes" by Paul Simon
• "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" (Hebrew: ירושלים של זהב, "Jerusalem of Gold") by Naomi Shemer
• "Lakh Yerushalayim" (Hebrew: לך ירושלים, "For You, Jerusalem")
• "Yerushalayim Sheli" (Hebrew: ירושלים שלי, "My Jerusalem")
• "Ierusalim" (Jerusalem) by Aleksandr Rosenbaum

Johannesburg

• Gimme Hope Jo'anna by Eddy Grant

Katmandu

• Katmandu by Bob Seger

Laredo

• Streets of Laredo

Lisbon

• Lisboa, Menina e Moça by Carlos do Carmo
• Lisbon by Angra

Little Rock

• Little Rock by Free Micah

London

Main article: List of songs about London

Los Angeles

Main article: List of songs about Los Angeles

Montreal

Main article: List of songs about Montreal

Moscow

• Disco in Moscow by the Vibrators
• Moscow Drug Club by BB Gabor from his album B. B. Gabor
• Moscow, Moscow by Genghis Khan (band)
• Moskau by Rammstein
• Nights in Moscow (Russian traditional)

New York

Main article: List of songs about New York City

Paris

• Free Man in Paris by Joni Mitchel
• Memories of Gay Paree" by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet (Paris, Ontario)
• Paris by Camille

Phoenix

• By the Time I Get to Phoenix by Jimmy Webb

Rio de Janeiro

• Cidade Maravilhosa by [[]]
• Rio de Janeiro by [[]]
• Do Leme ao Pontal by Tim Maia
• Rio 40 Graus by Fernanda Abreu
• Samba do Avião by Tom Jobim
• Copacabana by [[]]

Saigon

• "Saigon" by Martha and the Muffins (possibly the only one here at present that doesn't mention the Vietnam War lyrics)
• "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 Charlie Daniels Band

San Antonio

• New San Antonio Rose by Bob Wills

São Paulo

• Sampa by Caetano Veloso

Stockholm

• Stockholm by Orup
• Stockholm by New Fast Automatic Daffodils (from their album Body Exit Mind)

Sydney

Main article: List of songs about Sydney

Tokyo

• Life in Tokyo by Japan (band)
• Midnight in Tokyo by [[]]
• Woman from Tokyo by Deep Purple
• Tokyo by Bruce Cockburn (from the album Humans, #44 on RPM (magazine) in 1980)
• Tokyo by Yui (singer)
• Tokyo Streets by Glamour Cult

Toronto

Main article: List of songs about Toronto

Witchita

• Wichita Lineman by Jimmy Webb