Name a song that names a city or state but doesn't have it in the title

[BurtWorm]

Like "Dirty Water." For extra entertainment value, I won't say what city the song is about. You'll have to tell me.

[StopTheMorans]

1. BOSTON!

GO SOX!

[BurtWorm]

7. Excellent! How About "A Tombstone Every Mile"

by Dick Curliss?

[skygazer]

11. Maine!

[BurtWorm]

Ayuh!

[StopTheMorans]

2. song I don't like (yet has city or state names in it)

"take it easy" by the eagles (also a band i don't like).

[skygazer]

15. Winslow, Arizona

this is fun

[Don Claybrook]

3. Grateful Dead: Truckin'

and Johnny Cash did I've been everywhere.

Don't forget Huey Lewis's Heart of Rock and Roll. On second thought, maybe it would be good to forget this song.

[skygazer]

19. New Orleans

Bourbon Street

[tridim]

The ultimate pandering 'naming states' song

is 'Heart of Rock and Roll' by Huey Lewis.

[rock]

4. "Scrapple from the Apple"

Like that? It's the first I thought of.

[demnan]

5. Taking it Easy

Eagles/Jackson Browne

[tsakshaug]

6. rockin' me baby

steve miller

[skygazer]

20. Phoenix Arizona

all the way to Tacoma
Philadelphia
Atlanta
LA

[flamingyouth]

8. American Beat '84

The Fleshtones - they name lots of places and bands in it. :)

[lpbk2713]

9. I've been Everywhere by Johnny Cash

Probably names about fifty.

[bowens43]

17. Good one!! Maybe the best!!

[mr_hat]

10. Route 66

[bowens43]

12. "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" Bob Dylan

My home town in North Eastern Ohio........also mentioned in Vonneguts "Breakfast of Champions"

[BurtWorm]

13. We're a Happy Family

by the Ramones.

[tsakshaug]

14. dixie chicken

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. "Down Under" by Men At Work: Bombay, Brussels. (nt)

[tsakshaug]

18. roadrunner

[cmf]

21. "Up on Cripple Creek"

by The Band. Names my hometown. :)

[tsakshaug]

22. What's your name

little girl what's your name?

Boise ID

[arwalden]

23. Rocky Mountain High (Colorado)

[tsakshaug]

24. Sweet Baby James

The tunpike's a long one from Stockbridge to Boston

[guitar man]

25. Route 66

Has a bunch.

" It winds through St. Louis, Joplin, Mo, Oklahoma City's lookin mighty pretty you should see Amarillo, Gallup New Mexico, Flagstaff AZ, don't forget Winona, Kingman, Barstow and San Bernadino...."

[tsakshaug]

26. country roads

almost heaven west virgina

[sniffa]

27. so whatcha want - beasties

any guesses?

[nyhuskyfan]

28. Those Feat'll Steer You Wrong Sometimes...

Obscure Little Feat song...

Now we're going to London, Liverpool, Italy, Paris, Egypt, Dublin, Frisco, Waco, Athens, Gouldbusk, Troy and Miami, Moody, Beaumont, Edinburgh, Lubbock, Pecos, Deadwood, Fide, del Rio, Houston, Austin, all around Dallas.

Cause Texas is a world all of its own.

[terrya]

29. "My Kind of Town"

Followed by: "Chicago is"

[BurtWorm]

30. Smooooooooooke on the Waaaater

[jayfish]

31. "My City Was Gone".

I'm surprised that wasn't the first one.

Jay

[BurtWorm]

44. Cleveland

or is it Akron? Or Cincinatti?

[markus]

32. Biloxi

But that's not the city I'm thinking of.

[BurtWorm]

33. Chocolate City

Are you with me, CC?

[bobbobbins]

34. Honkey Tonk Woman & Cities by the Talking Heads

both name a couple cities

[BurtWorm]

35. Memphis, New Orleans

And Memphis (home of Elvis and ancient Greeks)?

[tsakshaug]

36. The load out

Jackson Browne

or detroit... I don't know

[tsakshaug]

37. Graceland

[DelawareValleyDem]

38. The Weight

[mvd]

39. "My Kind Of Town"

by Frank Sinatra. Mentions Chicago.

[BurtWorm]

40. America by Simon and Garfinkle

names a state and a city, at least.

[tsakshaug]

41. Sloop John B

[tsakshaug]

42. Louie, louie

I think

[BurtWorm]

43. Engine 54 by the Ethiopians

[vogonity]

45. Dancin in the Streets

"Dancin' in the Streets" Various Artists-- Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, "Motor City"

[carolinayellowdog]

46. My Old School

mentions a state and a city in another state

[BurtWorm]

47. Annandale is NY, I think

Annandale on Hudson, home of Bard College, which was literally Steely Dan's Old School.

[BurtWorm]

48. Cockles and Mussels, Alive, Alive-o

The Rain in Spain

[LeftishBrit]

49. This Land is Your Land

"From California to the New York Island".

Maggie May ("I was a bloody fool, in the port of Liverpool")

Super Trouper ("When I called you last night from Glasgow")

[HEyHEY]

50. I've been everywhere man!

[zbdent]

51. "Heart of Rock and Roll" - Huey Lewis and the News

Multiple cities

[Beaverhausen]

52. Me & Bobby McGee

Busted flat in Baton Rouge...