# City names in song titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 2, 2001, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618 "2001-08-02T07:15:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Synergist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Synergist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Synergist)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/41 "2001-08-03T04:17:26Z")
One the cited sites don’t mention. And two cities in one title. (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe doesn’t count. That’s the name of a railroad.) I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokahama with My Honolulu Mama Singing Those Beato Beato, Flat on My Feeto, Hirohito Blues. ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/42 "2001-08-03T05:04:33Z")
China Grove The Battle of New Orleans ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/43 "2001-08-03T05:25:04Z")
Tampico, Mex. _Tampico, Tampico, On the Gulf of Mexico…_ My niece is BIG into swing dancing… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/44 "2001-08-03T06:14:47Z")
**Hoboken** by **Operation Ivy** \*i’m in this prison built for you in this situation I don’t know what to do can’t make a connection get a reaction there’s this wall and I can’t get through you’re dying some guilt with no words what did I say what did I do youth hostels I lodged kept seeing you as a mirage flashesof you were everywhere **Hoboken, New Jersey** \* ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/45 "2001-08-03T12:45:03Z")
What about Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Misgokee” (I know I didn’t spell it right), and Kinky Friedman’s unbeatable parody “Asshole from El Paso.” ---
**Author:** ![buffalogal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@buffalogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buffalogal)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/46 "2001-08-03T13:20:13Z")
I know things are wrapping up here, but… A correction to an earlier post: Georgia is a state, not a city. A few more: Tijuana Taxi Autumn in New York Midnight in Moscow On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/47 "2001-08-03T14:03:20Z")
San Francisco Nights - The Animals Nashville Cats - John Sebastian The Night Chicago Died - ? Gomorrah - Jerry Garcia New York, New York - Frank Sinatra ---
**Author:** ![Fish42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@Fish42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish42)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/48 "2001-08-03T14:42:41Z")
“Tallahasse Lassie” by Freddie Cannon “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” by Glen Campbell “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” by Bruce Springsteen “Dayton, Ohio 1903” by Randy Newman “Anchorage” by Michelle Shocked “Reno, Nevada” by Richard and Mimi Farina “Woodstock” by Crosby Stills & Nash “Statesboro Blues” by The Allman Brothers “Don’t Go Back to Rockville” by REM “No Sleep Til Brooklyn” by The Beastie Boys “Mendocino” by The Sir Douglas Quintet “Nuevo Laredo” by The Sir Douglas Quintet “Oxford Town” by Bob Dylan “Romance in Durango” by Bob Dylan “Going to Acapulco” by Bob Dylan “Get Out Of Denver” by Bob Seger “Katmandu” by Bob Seger “I Go to Rio” by Peter Allen “There’ll Be A Hot Time in the Old Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go Marchin’ In)” by Bing Crosby & the Andrew Sisters “Vienna” by Ultravox “Vienna Calling” by Falco “Still in Saigon” by The Charlie Daniels Band “Going Down to Liverpool” by the Bangles “Hong Kong Gardens” by Siouxsie and the Banshees “Mecca” by Gene Pitney “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” by They Might Be Giants ---
**Author:** ![holdenmagroin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@holdenmagroin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holdenmagroin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/49 "2001-08-03T18:01:10Z")
“Raining in Baltimore” by the Counting Crows ---
**Author:** ![justinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@justinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justinh)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/50 "2001-08-03T19:03:59Z")
LA by Neil Young “city in the smog,” by the way: Woodstock is by CSN&Y not CS&N ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/51 "2001-08-03T23:09:03Z")
“Seattle” by Perry Como “New York State of Mind” and “Miami 2017” by Billy Joel “South Bronx” by KRS-One “I Left my Wallet in El Segundo” by A Tribe Called Quest “Get the F— Out of Dodge” by Public Enemy also from PE “Burn, Hollywood, Burn!!” also “I’ll Take Manhattan” “The Boy from New York City” by Manhattan Transfer “No Sleep 'til Brooklyn” by the Beastie Boys and how about some cty-name-dropping songs: “Dancing in the Streets” and “Sweet Little Sixteen” ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/52 "2001-08-04T04:56:54Z")
Here are some songs. All of them are by Frank Zappa Camarillo Brillo Cucamonga Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy Dead Girls Of London Emperor Of Ohio Florida Airport Tape Geneva Farewell If We’d All Been Living In California Illinois Enema Bandit In France It’s From Kansas Jonestown Madison Panty Sniffing Festival Montana Orange County Lumber Truck Holliday In Berlin Ride My Face To Chicago Let’s Move To Cleveland San Ber’dino San Clemente Magnetic Deviation St. Etienne Transylvania Boogie Were We Ever Really Safe In San Antonio? What’s New In Baltimore? ---
**Author:** ![daffodil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@daffodil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffodil)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/53 "2001-08-04T20:46:45Z")
Stupid song, Great town: \*\*Tulips from Amsterdam \*\* 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618/54 "2001-08-05T12:29:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by justinh \* > \*\*by the way: Woodstock is by CSN&Y not CS&N \*\* Well, if you want to get technical, it’s actually by Joni Mitchell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-names-in-song-titles/74618.md?page=2)