Does your hometown have a song?

[Recursion]

Mine has two. I'll post both:

Johnny says he was arrested "for picking flowers".

He was arrested for picking flowers, stoned out of his mind, buck naked, at 3 am, out of my best friend's grandmother's garden. Just sayin'. Also, he acts like the sheriff didn't know who he was; in fact they were well aware that this was Johnny Cash, and they wanted to put him in the drunk tank before he could embarrass himself more.

(At the risk of name-dropping, according to Amy I'm one of the "local gang of troubadors" in the first one. There's something cool about that.)

[Aristus]

1. "Do The Puyallup!"

The Puyallup is a dance you do because you're happy that the Puyallup Fair is in town. This TV ad for the fair is from 1976. Makes us look like a bunch of hayseeds, but Puyallup is actually a bustling town just east of Tacoma. Most of the farmland since 1976 has been developed into homes and strip malls.

But we still do the Puyallup for one weekend in the Spring, and two weeks in the Fall.

[liberal N proud]

2. Nothing but the dead and dying Back in my little town

Simon And Garfunkel My Little Town

[bluedigger]

3. F-TOWN

Just came out this winter.

[mulsh]

4. "Oakland Stroke" we've had it for a while

[Bertha Venation]

5. Surf City USA

Huntington Beach, California

[HarveyDarkey]

6. The Fairfield Song - not "Official"

[Paulie]

7. My kind of town

[ballardgirl]

8. Apparently we do

have an official song:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/01/12/video-bet-you-havent-heard-seattles-official-song/

but it's pretty lame. I like this one:

[RebelOne]

9. Yep, theme song from where I grew up not where I live now.

[Iggo]

10. "6th Street! We love it! We love it! We love it!..."

[Wait Wut]

11. Only if I can claim Chicago as my 'hometown'...

...even though I'm from a suburb.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. I'd say "Anchored down in Anchorage," but

after Michelle Shocked's little freak-out, I'm kind of embarrassed to. There are several local songs, but nothing that people Outside would know about.

Oh, here's one. This was a Clio-award winning ad from 1981. My brother has some of the original transparencies.

[SecularMotion]

13. My Hometown

[elleng]

14. HELL YES!!!