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Songs with reference to your home town/state

#2
Let's see:
- Georgia On My Mind
- Sweet Home Alabama
- 4 Dead In Ohio
Just off the top of my head. As far as referencing my home town/state? That's one of the drawbacks of being a GI brat; I don't have a home town or state. Not many songs about Air Force bases - and the one I was born on is gone now, anyway...:)
 
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Elvis Presley's "Promised Land"....I work in Norfolk. Take a look...maybe your locale is mentioned:

I left my home in Norfolk Virginia
F
California on my mind
G7
I straddled that Greyhound and
C
Rode him into Raleigh and on across Caroline


We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle
F
Half way across Alabam
G7
And that 'Hound broke down and left us all stranded
C
In downtown Birmingham


Right away I bought me a through train ticket
F
Riding across Mississippi clean
G7
And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
C
Smoking into New Orleans


Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
F
Just help me get to Houston town
G7
There are people there who care a little about me
C
And they won't let a poor boy down


Sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit
F
They put luggage in my hands
G7
And I woke up high over Albuquerque
C
On a jet to the promised land


We stopped at Charlotte we by passed Rock Hill
F
We never was a minute late
G7
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown
C
Rolling out of Georgia state


Working on a T-bone steak
F
I had a party flying over to the golden state
G7
When the pilot told us that in thirteen minutes
C
He would get us to the terminal gate


Swing Low Chariot come down easy
F
Taxi to the terminal door
G7
Cut your engines and cool you wings
C
And let me make it to the telephone


Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
F
Tidewater 4-10-0-9
G7
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land
C
Calling and the boy's on the line

 
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#10
There's a ton of stuff referencing my area, lots of it from The Band (Time To Kill) and Steeley Dan (My Old School)...almost too many references to pick just one as they both had roots here and used the Hudson Valley as their muse quite a bit. There was High Five (Rock the Catskills) by Beck and Pete Seeger wrote about 8 million songs about the Hudson River. I know there's a bunch more, but that's what comes to mind immediately.
 

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