Song titles with the names of CITIES in them

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I'll start ... with something a little obscure:

Galveston

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Billy Joel

Man oh man :shakeshead:

wasn't that the old Mac Davis tune?????

We alway said it as "dont go back to Rockland"....

"By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
"Gary, Indiana"
"Chicago, Chicago"
"My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)"
"Chicago, Illinois"
"Please Come to Boston"
"New York, New York"
"Philadelphia Freedom"
"Union City Blues"
"St. Louis Blues"
"Oh, Atlanta"
"Memphis"
"Rock Island"
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
"El Paso"
"Okie from Muskogee"
"Asshole from El Paso"
"On the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe"
"L.A. Is My Lady"
"Last Train to Clarksville"

Can't believe that wasn't already there.

and Jackson, Miss --

"I'm goin to Jackson --
gonna mess around!
I'm goin to Jackson.
So long I'm Jackson bound. "

by Pere Ubu.

Yo, Yo.. Yo..Yo, Yo,
Welcome to Atlanta where the playas play
And we ride on them things like every day
Big beats, hit streets, see gangsta's roamin'
And parties dont stop til' eight in the mornin'

'Cause she drove like a bat out of hell--at the age of 74!

my Abilene!

I'm going down to laurel
its a dirty stinking town, yeah

an entirely different song.

"Ain't Going to Goa" by A3 or Alabama 3, who do the Saprano's theme song.

To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again.

It was a dry county when I was there. You'd have the blues too if you had to make it to the county line for a little drinky.

Come on...

:)

by Loretta Lynn

:)

Bob Seger.

With a great line about NYC, "New York city's like a friendly old ghost."

...was the band.

Good Morning America How are you
Don't you know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gonn 500 miles when the day is done

Jacksonville - Josh Turner

It wasn't even in my plan
A week in the sun and some fun in the sand
I was really only passing through
It all began on ocean drive
Standin' in line for a burger and fries
Coincidently so were you
We took a quiet corner booth

Didn't plan on hangin' out in Florida
Never was to good at standin still
Suddenly it's lookin' like I'm gonna
Kill a few more days in Jacksonville

I'm givin' up my walkin' shoes
While the wind and the waves wash away my blues
And you help me lose track of time
Rock and roll, your holdin' me
Rockin' in your arms by a rollin' sea
It was easy makin' up my mind
I can see forever in your eyes, your eyes

Didn't plan on hangin' out in Florida
Never was to good at standin still
Suddenly it's lookin' like I'm gonna
Kill a few more days in Jacksonville

Didn't plan on hangin' out in Florida
Never was to good at standin still
Suddenly it's lookin' like I'm gonna
Kill a few more days in Jacksonville


Jacksonville Skyline - Whiskeytown

The banks of the river run through my hometown
As a boy I ran the dirt roads, and I scraped my knees
Well they paved the roads eventually
With neon signs and car dealerships and diners

The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town

Well, I moved away soon as I turned sixteen
Figured I was old enough to go and work a job
Well I floated down main street, pools of car lights
Overcame me wishing I was still back home

The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town

Well, Jacksonville's a city with a hopeless streetlight
Seems like you're lucky if it ever change from red to green
I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness
And .50 cent picture frames bought at a five and dime

I ended up a soldier on the weekend
Looking for a vacancy I was unable to find
Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket
Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it

Seem like stars

There's a free earworm for everybody!

and Livin' on Tulsa Time by Don Williams.

...

ETA Charley's name

and so do you and me!

edited grievous spelling error

A two-fer!

Omaha Rainbow
Never Goin' Back to Nashville
Santa Barbara
Back In Pamona
Bolinas
Cheyenne
Durango
Mazatlan
Boston Lady

He also wrote a bunch of state songs, 3 about RFK, 1 about JFK, one about Jimmy Carter, one about Neil Armstrong, one about Secretariat (!!)

:)

zoo zoo zoo zoo

Saginaw Michigan- Jim Ringer ( neat little story)
Midnight over Dallas- Mike Morgan and the Crawl
Memphis Bound- Memphis Slim
I've got a girl in Kalamazoo (Benny Goodman)
I wish I'd known this thread was gonna be here ......I have a huge list of songs like this. It's a long story why :)

n/t

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An American in Paris - Gershwin
The Great Gates Of Kiev - Mussorgsky (From Pictures at an Exhibition)

and so on... not many hoosier towns referred to in songs... so had to offer it up.

It would be hard to sing about "Nap Town"... or "India-No-place"... :shrug:

...In Toledo Ohio, by John Denver.

From the one, the only, Tina Turner.

Dear Chicago - Ryan Adams

I recommend the new, remastered 4 CD box set.

by Bob Dylan.

A very underrated power guitar southern rock band.

Soll stet's die Stadt meiner Traume Sein!

There finally got an Iowa one!

"we'll be a peach of a pear."

:D