What is your favourite song about where you live?

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[Norm]

Being strictly accurate, I only know of one song about Bray, although, to be honest, I've never heard it, just heard of it.

Allowing for a few miles latitude, mine has to be Eton Rifles. Bestest local poem is easy, too, a little Betjeman number which many people will know from a Ricky Gervais performance.

 

[Wolf04]

Not Fog on the Tyne by Gazza!!!!
Probably the Geordie anthem Blaydon Races.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

anything by the macc lads really, but as this one does mention the town itself in the title…

miss macclesfield

 

[DJ]

Westering home. Actualy that song is about were I am from!

So the favourite song about were I live must be 'down in the tube station at midnight' I guess!

 

[swee'pea99]

24 hours from Nelson Road

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Strangely enough, there is a song about where I live - or at least the way of getting there... it's a deliberately stupid folky thing by a local band:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5UPqW0J5F0

 

[palinurus]

I'm not sure anyone ever wrote one about Watford.

Except this perhaps ?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Strangely enough, there is a song about where I live - or at least the way of getting there... it's a deliberately stupid folky thing by a local band:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5UPqW0J5F0

I've heard worse!!!

...Oh the wolfe island ferry is a very nice ferry...

 

[dmoan]

Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers

 

[Globalti]

Freeborn Man - but I don't really live in a caravan.

Romantic:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xB2m2id0q4&feature=related

 

[peanut]

well as I was born a cockney it would have to be itchycoo Park.

There has been much speculation as to the precise location but back then we knew exactly where it was . It was the park where I went with my first girlfriend after school at the tender age of 9 although it was some years later when it was made famous by the Small Faces

Roger Grote a school pal was badly beaten up in the park some years later and lost an eye.This happened in 1967 about the time when the song became a hit. Not the best way to remember a record


http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...63856,0.097393&spn=0.005075,0.009645&t=h&z=17
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchycoo_Park

 

[slowmotion]

Waterloo Sunset

 

[Kestevan]

Green and Grey - New Model Army.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sHWd3mqi0M

 

[ufkacbln]

Gosport Nancy

Gosport Nancy, she's my fancy
She's the girl to make good sport
How she greets ya when she meets ya
When your ship gets into port
All the Gosport ladies
They loves a sailor man
But at findin' a way to spend your pay
There's none like Gosport Nan

Now Gosport girls are good at dancing
There the best there is, no doubt
When the music sets them prancing
A-how they fling their skirts about
All the Gosport ladies
They can do the French Can-Can
But a real night kicks some fancy tricks
There's none like Gosport Nan

Now Gosport girls they love to gargle
Gosport girls they likes their tot
Rum and brandy, gin and shandy
Gosport girls all go the lot
All the Gosport ladies
They swigs the flowing can
But at knockin' it back with honest Jack
There's none like Gosport Nan

Now Gosport Nancy keeps a parlour
Where the lads can take their ease
She'll wake you, she'll shake you
She will do whate'er you please
Now all the Gosport ladies
They does the best they can
But at makin' a bed for a sailor's head
There's none like Gosport Nan
No there's - none - like - Gosport - Nancy