What is your favourite song about where you live?

[rh100]

There's loads of bands that have come from Brum, but don't know of any songs about it. I did hear one about Birmingham Alabama, quite an old one.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Can't think of any songs about Ross on Wye off the top of my head ...

 

[vernon]

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

Except this perhaps ?

Roy Harper did the honours:

Just about a mile from where the motorways all merge
You can view the national edifice, a monumental splurge
It's the lonesome traveler's rotgut or bacteria's revenge
The great plastic spectacular descendant of Stonehenge
And the people come to worship on their death-defying wheels
Fancy-dressed as shovels for their death-defying meals

It's the Watford Gap, Watford Gap
A plate of grease and a load of crap

At one a.m. on Sunday you can hear the boys declare
That the other team were fairies and the ref was Fred Astaire
It's Chopper Ronnie's fan club on their weekly pilgrimage
To stick the hero's boot in all the way from Stamford Bridge
And without a solid concrete-burger no night is complete
Plastic cups of used bathwater wash away defeat

It's the Watford Gap, Watford Gap
A plate of grease and a load of crap

The traffic jam is rattling like a five-mile cornered snake
With fuming pieces falling off and steaming in its wake
The city's like a goolie in a groupie's stagnant womb
Spaghetti Junction's target in the vinegar strokes of doom
The countryside is ravaged like a syphilitic whore
Yodeling up the canyon is the dirty old blue boar

It's the Watford Gap, Watford Gap
A plate of grease and a load of crap

 

[dellzeqq]

[quote name='swee'pea99']24 hours from Nelson Road[/QUOTE]24 minutes from Tulse Hill by Carter USM

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Carter_The_Unstoppable_Sex_Machine:Twenty_Four_Minutes_From_Tulse_Hill

 

[Arthur]

Medway Wheelers by Wild Billy Childish and the Buff Medways.

A song about the delights of getting away from the Medway Towns by bicycle.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOo7DepCd9w

 

[ComedyPilot]

Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers

Great band.

 

[Auntie Helen]

Anyone know any songs about Bergisch Gladbach then?

 

[addictfreak]

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

Has to be Blaydon Races I agree, bit of a no brainer really

 

[addictfreak]

Or how about this one


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0YoV8uj5FA

 

[addictfreak]

And another


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH5ja3rUZuw&feature=related

 

[addictfreak]

Last one I promise, some good shots of the river and its famous bridges in this one


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZT-DF60608

 

[domd1979]

Random one for the county town of Staffordshire....


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM4SUoyfcIM

 

[UKPhil]

Oh come with me,
To the rolling sea,
While the weather's calm and still.
And we'll have some fun and laughter with
The Adventures of Portland Bill :-)

 

[Glow worm]

'Aberystwyth Sprinter' by Railroad Bill and the Boxcar Stompers.
(Although it's a few years since I lived in Aber). The song reached number 483 in the Aberystwyth and Machynlleth combined charts in 1987.

It's got some brand new bumpers and some automatic doors
And lots of business people from far and distant shores
The tooting of the whistle is sounding from the north
Its the Aberystwyth sprinter and it's just pulled in to Borth.....

Tourists come in summer, students come in winter
But everybody comes here on the Aberystwyth sprinter.

Also, famously, Lynyrd Skynyrd;s 'Sweet Home Aberystwyth'

 

[Theseus]

A couple of Proclaimers ones mention places nearby:

Letter from America & Sunshine on Leith