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
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states: Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina.
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
Convoy — Mentions Flagstaff (Flagtown) in the song.
Grand Canyon Summer — John Stewart
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
Arkansas Breakout — John Stewart
The Arkansas Traveler
Little Rock
Oh Arkansas — state song
Texarkana — R.E.M.
Texarkana Baby
California
Angeles (The City of Angels) — John Stewart
Back in Pomona — John Stewart
Bolinas — John Stewart
California
California Bloodlines — John Stewart
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
Golden Gate — John Stewart
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
Living in LA — Dawes
Marina del Rey — George Strait
Mendocino County Line
Queen of Hollywood High — John Stewart
The Road to Ensenada — Lyle Lovett
San Fernando Valley
San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)
Santa Barbara — John Stewart
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 — Brian
Wilson
Streets of Bakersfield
Ventura Highway
When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
Colorado
America the Beautiful
Boulder to Birmingham — Emmylou Harris
Colorado Country Morning
Durango — John Stewart
East of Denver — John Stewart
Rocky Mountain High — John Denver
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Where the Columbines Grow — state song
Connecticut
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New
York; Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states:
Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina.
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; Bing Crosby
Farewell Hawaii
Hawaii Five-O — The Ventures
Hawaii Ponoi (Hawaii's Own) — state song
Hawaiian Bells
Hawaiian Heat Waves Medley — Bob Brozman
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Love Song
Hawaiian Lulluby
Hawaiian Sunset
Hawaiian Tattoo
Hawaiian War Chant
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Honolulu City Lights — The Carpenters
In Blue Hawaii — Brian Wilson
Manoa in the Rain — Hapa
Moonlight in Honolulu
My Hawaiian Queen — Sol Ho'opi
My Honolulu Tomboy
On the Beach at Waikiki
Idaho
Here We Have Idaho — state song
Sun Valley Jump
Illinois
Convoy — Mentions Chicago (Chitown) in the song.
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
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states:
Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina.
Wabash Cannonball
Iowa
The Song of Iowa — state song
Kansas
Here's Kansas
Home on the Range — state song
Kansas — Neil Young
Kansas City Star — Roger Miller
The Kansas March
Kansas Rain — John Stewart
Me & You & a Dog Named Blue — Refers to the wheat fields of
Saint Paul.
On the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe
Wichita Cross Winds — John Stewart
Wichita Lineman — Glen Campbell
You Can't Go Back to Kansas — John Stewart
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
Callin' Baton Rouge — Garth Brooks
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
New Orleans — John Stewart
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states: Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina.
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
Lady Came from Baltimore — John Stewart
Maryland, My Maryland — state song
Massachusetts
Alice's Restaurant — Arlo Guthrie. Set in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts.
All Hail to Massachusetts — state song
Boston Lady — John Stewart
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
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse,
New York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states: Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Michigan
Detroit — John Denver
Detroit City
Detroit Rocks
Michigan, My Michigan — state song
Saginaw, Michigan
Shuttin' Detroit Down — John Rich
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse,
New York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states: Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Minnesota
By the Waters of Minnetonka
Minnesota Hail to Thee — state song
Positively 4th Street (Minneapolis) — Bob Dylan
Mississippi
Canary Bird — Muddy Waters. This song mentions
Clarksdale.
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'
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states: Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina.
Missouri
Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues
Meet Me in St. Louis
Missouri Birds — John Stewart
Missouri Waltz — state song
St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues March
Montana
Helena Polka
Montana — state song
Montana Crossing — John Stewart
Montana Melody
Nebraska
Beautiful Nebraska — state song
Convoy — Mentions Omaha in the song.
Nebraska: The Cornhusker State
Nebraska Rain — John Stewart
Omaha — Counting Crows
Omaha Rainbow — John Stewart
A Place Like Nebraska
Nevada
Home Means Nevada — state song
I Love Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas
Silver State Fanfare
Viva Las Vegas — Elvis Presley
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
Back to Manhattan — Norah Jones
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
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states:
Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina.
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
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states: Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina.
North Dakota
Dakota — John Davidson
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
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse,
New York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states: Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Youngstown
Oklahoma
Convoy — Mentions Tulsa in the song.
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 — Bob Wills
Tulsa
Tulsa — Rufus Wainwright
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
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New
York; Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states:
Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina.
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
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states: Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
South Dakota
Dakota — John Davidson
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).
Belly Full of Tennessee — John Stewart
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Chattanooga 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 — The Monkees
Maryville Breakdown
Maybe It Was Memphis — Pam Tillis
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 — Cory Chisel
Tennessee Bird Walk
Tennessee Flap-Top Box
Tennessee Hot Dog
Tennessee Line — Chris Daughtry and Vince Gill
Tennessee River Run — Darryl Worley
Tennessee Stud
Tennessee Waltz — Patti Page, Emmylou Harris
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
Dixie on My Mind — Hank Williams, Jr. Mentions Houston
in the song.
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)
If You Ever Go to Houston — Bob Dylan
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
East Virginia — John Stewart
Shenandoah
Sulphur to Sugarcane — Elvis Costello. Mentions
Ypsilanti, Michigan; Worcester, Massachusetts; Columbus, Ohio; Sycracuse, New
York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York;
Bloomington, Indiana; Poughkeepsie, New York. Also the following states: Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina.
Washington
Seattle — Bobby Sherman
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
The Beaches of Cheyenne — Garth Brooks
Cheyenne — John Stewart
Wyoming — state song
Elsewhere
O Little Town of Bethlehem — Christmas carol
Liverpool 8 — album by Ringo Starr
