Songs about your hometown

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The Tannahill Weavers, "Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiwXsaPR14w

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Friday, 31 July 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link

The Fegs, "Mill Street Law and Order"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Gm9OXQFog

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Friday, 31 July 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link

... (translation) All coppers are bastards.

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Friday, 31 July 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link

Beside the ones already mentioned (love ´em both : Cale and Taxi Girl), to me the best is « Paris S’Eveille » by Dutronc.

AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 31 July 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link

Oh you'll have hundreds of them, I don't have many to choose from, that Tannahill Weavers one is lovely though.

Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Friday, 31 July 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link

We love to get down in Ypsilanti.
https://youtu.be/e_vyGFvPaMs

BrianB, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

This never fails to crack me up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUY6dBdgWR

Attn: jaymc

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 March 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link

Accurate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGAqZakJoMg

The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link

I'm going to post this one again because the link I posted before no longer works and this song is so lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU0HLLfSVEI

Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:16 (two years ago) link

Also the story of Robert Tannahill, whose statue I must have passed hundreds of times, is so sad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tannahill

Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:18 (two years ago) link

A ton of The Hold Steady's songs are about places I grew up around, so I figured one would mention where I grew up (Burnsville), and indeed one does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQWnv-PyGc

deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link

I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh so well

zacata, Sunday, 13 March 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link


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