This page features towns, cities, and states featured in songs of all kinds. This is a work in progress. I have many more such
musical
locations in my files. As I get time, I'll add more. If you would like to nominate other
musical settings, email them to
JohnKremer@bookmarket.com. Thank you!
Note: After the song title, I list the singer or group most associated with
the song (if I know who it is).
Alabama
Alabama — state song
Alabama — Neil Young
Alabama Song — Allison Moorer
Birmingham Bounce
Boulder to Birmingham — Emmylou Harris
I Want to Talk About Me — Toby Keith. This song
mentions Muncie, Indiana, and Alabama.
Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Paint Me a Birmingham
The Stars Fell on Alabama
Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd
Toledo Junction
Alaska
Alaska's Flag
North to Alaska — Johnny Horton
When It's Springtime in Alaska
Arizona
Arizona — state song
By the Time I Get to Phoenix — Glen Campbell
Send Me Down to Tucson — Mel Tillis
Take It Easy — The Eagles. Mentions standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona.
There Is No Arizona
3:10 to Yuma
Arkansas
Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me) — state song
The Arkansas Traveler
Little Rock
Oh Arkansas — state song
Texarkana — R.E.M.
Texarkana Baby
California
California
California Dreamin' — The Mamas and the Papas
California Girls
California, Here I Come
California Stars — Billy Bragg and Wilco
Do You Know the Way to San Jose? — Dionne Warwick
Folsom Prison Blues — Johnny Cash
(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66
Going Hollywood
Heads Carolina, Tails California
Hollywood Waltz
Hotel California — The Eagles
I Left My Heart in San Francisco — Tony Bennett
I Left My Wallet in El Segundo
I Love You, California — state song
King of Hollywood
L.A. Woman
L.A. Song
Little Old Lady from Pasadena — Jan & Dean
Mendocino County Line
The Road to Ensenada — Lyle Lovett
San Fernando Valley
San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)
Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay — Otis Redding
South Coast — Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kingston Trio.
Tells the story of a cowboy's life between Big Sur and Jolon.
Southern California
Streets of Bakersfield
Ventura Highway
When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
Colorado
America the Beautiful
Boulder to Birmingham — Emmylou Harris
Colorado Country Morning
Rocky Mountain High — John Denver
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Where the Columbines Grow — state song
Connecticut
Yankee Doodle — state song
D.C.
The Washington Grays
Washington Post March — John Phillip Sousa
Delaware
Our Delaware — state song
Florida
Cape Canaveral — Conor Oberst
Old Folks at Home — state song
Tallahassee Lassie
Georgia
Atlanta
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Georgia on My Mind — Ray Charles; Willie Nelson
Midnight Train to Georgia
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Oh, Atlanta
Our Georgia — state waltz
Rainy Night in Georgia
A Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia
The Watermelon Crawl — mentions Georgia
Hawaii
Blue Hawaii — Elvis Presley
Farewell Hawaii
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Ponoi (Hawaii's Own) — state song
Hawaiian Bells
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Love Song
Hawaiian Lulluby
Hawaiian Sunset
Hawaiian Tattoo
Hawaiian War Chant
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Moonlight in Honolulu
My Honolulu Tomboy
On the Beach at Waikiki
Idaho
Here We Have Idaho — state song
Sun Valley Jump
Illinois
Chicago: It's My Kind of Town
Chicago Stomps
Dearborn Street Breakdown
Goin' to Chicago Blues
Illinois — state song
The Night Chicago Died
Rock Island Line
Indiana
Back Home Again in Indiana
I Want to Talk About Me — Toby Keith. This song
mentions Muncie, Indiana, and Alabama.
Indiana Wants Me
On the Banks of the Wabash — state song
Wabash Cannonball
Iowa
The Song of Iowa — state song
Kansas
Here's Kansas
Home on the Range — state song
The Kansas March
Kansas City Star — Roger Miller
Me & You & a Dog Named Blue — Refers to the wheat fields of
Saint Paul.
On the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe
Wichita Lineman — Glen Campbell
You're Not in Kansas Anymore
Kentucky
Blue Kentucky Girl
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Kentucky Gambler
Kentucky Waltz
Kentucky Woman
My Old Kentucky Home — state song
Louisiana
Battle of New Orleans — Johnny Horton
Baton Rouge
City of New Orleans — Arlo Guthrie
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Give Me Louisiana — state song
Louisiana
Louisiana My Home Sweet Home — state march
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man — Conway Twitty and
Loretta Lynn
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Me & Bobby McGee — Janis Joplin. Refers to Baton
Rouge.
New Orleans
Sweet New Orleans
Walking to New Orleans
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
You Are My Sunshine — state song
Maine
How About Them Cowgirls — A reference to Bangor, Maine
in the song.
State of Maine Song — state song
Maryland
Maryland, My Maryland — state song
Massachusetts
Alice's Restaurant — Arlo Guthrie. Set in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts.
All Hail to Massachusetts — state song
The Great State of Massachusetts — state glee club song
Massachusetts — Bee Gees
Massachusetts (Because of You Our Land Is Free) — state
folk song
MTA Song — Chad Mitchell Trio
Ode to Massachusetts
Please Come to Boston
The Road to Boston
Say Hello to Someone from Massachusetts — state polka
Michigan
Detroit City
Detroit Rocks
Michigan, My Michigan — state song
Saginaw, Michigan
Minnesota
By the Waters of Minnetonka
Minnesota Hail to Thee — state song
Positively 4th Street (Minneapolis) — Bob Dylan
Mississippi
Go, Mississippi — state song
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man — Conway Twitty and
Loretta Lynn
Mississippi Girl — Faith Hill
Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town
Mississippi Goddam — Nina Simone
Mississippi Queen
The Natchez Burnin'
Missouri
Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues
Meet Me in St. Louis
Missouri Waltz — state song
St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues March
Montana
Helena Polka
Montana — state song
Montana Melody
Nebraska
Beautiful Nebraska — state song
Nebraska: The Cornhusker State
Omaha — Counting Crows
A Place Like Nebraska
Nevada
Home Means Nevada — state song
I Love Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas
Silver State Fanfare
Viva Las Vegas
New Hampshire
Autumn in New Hampshire
New Hampshire's Granite State
New Hampshire Hills
New Hampshire, My New Hampshire
New Hampshire Naturally
The New Hampshire State March — state march
Oh, New Hampshire
The Old Man of the Mountain
Old New Hampshire — state song
New Jersey
4th of July, Asbury Park — Bruce Springsteen
I'm from New Jersey — Frank Sinatra
Jersey Bounce
My Hometown — Bruce Springsteen
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Along the Santa Fe Trail
Asi Es Nuevo Mejico — state Spanish song
New Mexico - Mi Lindo Nuevo Mexico — state bilingual
song
O, Fair New Mexico — state song
On the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe
New York
Albany
Autumn in New York
59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) — Simon &
Garfunkel
Girl from New York City
Harlem Sandman
I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York
I Love New York
Manhattan
New York City
New York, New York — Frank Sinatra
New York Mining Disaster 1941
New York State of Mind
Nights on Broadway — Bee Gees
No Sleep Till Brooklyn
NYC—Gone, Gone — Conor Oberst
Old Woodstock — Van Morrison
On Broadway
Rochester Schotische
Spanish Harlem
Woodstock — Crosby Stills & Nash
North Carolina
Carolina in the Morning
Carolina Moon
Heads Carolina, Tails California
North Carolina, My Home State
The Old North State — state song
North Dakota
Flickertail March — state march
North Dakota
North Dakota Hymn — state song
Ohio
Back in Cleveland Polka
Beautiful Ohio — state song
Cincinnati Rag
Ohio — Crosby, Stills & Nash
Youngstown
Oklahoma
The Everlasting Hills of Oklahoma
Home in Oklahoma
Okie from Muskogee — Merle Haggard
Oklahoma! — state song
Oklahoma Stomp
Oklahoma Wind — state waltz
Take Me Back to Tulsa
Tulsa
Tulsa Queen — Emmylou Harris
Tulsa Time
24 Hours from Tulsa
You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma
Oregon
Oregon, My Oregon — state song
Pennsylvania
Alleghany Moon
Allentown
Pennsylvania — state song
Pennsylvania Polka
Pennsylvania 6-5000
Philadelphia Freedom — Elton John
Streets of Philadelphia — Bruce Springsteen
Rhode Island
Rhode Island — state march
Rhode Island's It for Me — state song
South Carolina
Carolina — state song
Carolina in the Morning
Carolina Moon
The Charleston — dance
Heads Carolina, Tails California
Porgy and Bess — state opera
Richardson Waltz — state waltz
South Carolina on My Mind — state song
South Dakota
Hail, South Dakota — state song
Sioux City Sue
Tennessee
All My Ex's Live in Texas — George Strait, includes the
following towns: Abilene, San Antonio, Temple, and Galveston. Also the state of
Tennessee (that's why I live in Tennessee).
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
I'm Going to Jackson — Johnny Cash and June Carter
Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
I've Been to Memphis
Last Train to Clarksville
Maryville Breakdown
Maybe It Was Memphis
Memphis
Memphis Blues
Memphis, Tennessee
My Homeland, Tennessee
My Tennessee
Nashville Cats
Nashville Skyline — Bob Dylan
The Pride of Tennessee
Rocky Top
Smokey Mountain Memories
Tennessee
Tennessee Bird Walk
Tennessee Hot Dog
Tennessee Flap-Top Box
Tennessee Stud
Tennessee Waltz
Tennessee Whiskey
When It's Iris Time in Tennessee
Texas
Abilene
Abilene Rose
All My Ex's Live in Texas — George Strait, includes the
following towns: Abilene, San Antonio, Temple, and Galveston. Also the state of
Tennessee (that's why I live in Tennessee).
Amarillo by Morning — George
Strait
Amarillo Sky
Beautiful, Beautiful Texas
Bluebonnets — state flower song
Brownsville Girl — Bob Dylan
Cross the Brazos at Waco
Dallas
Dallas Days and Fort Worth Nights
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind? — George Strait
El Paso — Marty Robbins
El Paso City
The Eyes of Texas
Fort Worth and Dallas Blues
Galveston — Glen Campbell
God Bless Texas
Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You)
Is Anyone Going to San Antone?
Luckenbach, Texas — Willie Nelson
Padre of San Antone
Pecos Bill
Planet Texas
Red River Rock
Red River Valley
Rio Grande
San Angelo
San Antonio Rose — Bob Wills
Stars Over Texas — Tracy Lawrence
Streets of Laredo
Take Me Back to Texas
Texarkana — R.E.M.
Texarkana Baby
Texas, Our Texas — state song
Texas Tornado
That's Right (You're Not from Texas)
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Waltz Across Texas
Utah
The Red Hills of Utah
Utah Carol — Marty Robbins
Vermont
Hail, Vermont — state song
Moonlight in Vermont
These Green Mountains — state song
Virginia
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny — state song
Shenandoah
Washington
Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues — Todd Snider
Wisconsin
On Wisconsin — state song
What's Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Loser Out of Me
Wyoming
Wyoming — state song
Elsewhere
O Little Town of Bethlehem — Christmas carol
Liverpool 8 — album by Ringo Starr
