# Give me some songs about London
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 16, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009 "2003-01-16T17:48:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/1 "2003-01-16T17:48:38Z")
A friend is going to London this summer to study art, and I want to make a mix CD for her with songs about London. So far I have:
Clash - London Calling
Cornershop - Good to Be on the Road Back Home Again (" Too many nights… in dirty London town…")
Third Eye Blind - London
Alanis Morissette - London
Any others that you can think of?
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/2 "2003-01-16T17:53:21Z")
The Smiths - London
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/3 "2003-01-16T17:58:11Z")
Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London
“I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s. And his hair was perfect.”
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/4 "2003-01-16T17:59:32Z")
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset.
Prince - Two Nigs from West Compton.
What?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/5 "2003-01-16T18:05:29Z")
On the Street Where You Live
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### Author:  [@cmburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmburns)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/6 "2003-01-16T18:12:46Z")
“London Town” - Wings
“London After Midnight”- Wrathchild America
“London Boys” -David Bowie
“London Girl”- The Jam
“London Leatherboys” - Accept
“London’s Brilliant Parade”- Elvis Costello
I got all those from a search at [songfile.com](http://songfile.com). There were a ton more, these were just the ones from groups I knew of.
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### Author:  [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/7 "2003-01-16T18:17:49Z")
Hairdresser on Fire–Morrissey (“here is London, home of the brash outrageous and free”)
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### Author:  [@CaptEgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptEgo)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/8 "2003-01-16T18:25:44Z")
A few more for the list…
Rick Wakeman: “Chamber of Horrors”
Joni Mitchell: “Chelsea Morning”
Wings: “London Town”
Pet Shop Boys: “West End Girls”
Tangerine Dream: “London” (Lyrics direct from William Blake)
Third Eye Blind: “London”
You didn’t specify Taste and/or quality… 😉
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### Author:  [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/9 "2003-01-16T18:26:42Z")
ARGH - **Judith** beat me to it!
“London Crawling” - Rialto
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/10 "2003-01-16T18:28:38Z")
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
London Bridge is Falling Down - the five-year-old kid down the street.
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### Author:  [@silverfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silverfish)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/11 "2003-01-16T18:31:18Z")
There’s ‘Street of London’ by Ralph Mctell:
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> So how can you tell me you’re lonely
> And say, for you,
> that the sun don’t shine
> Let me take you by the hand
> And lead you through the streets of London
> I’ll show you something to make you change your mind
And there’s ‘Maybe it’s Because I’m a Londoner’ by whoever it is:
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> Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner
> That I love London Town.
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### Author:  [@Boldface\_Type](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boldface_Type)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/12 "2003-01-16T18:35:53Z")
- ‘Streets of London’, covered by various people.
- T-Rex, ‘London Boys’
You could go for specific parts of london:
- Red Snapper, ‘Spitalfields’
Or an entire album:
- Sabine Sciubba & Antonio Forcione, ‘Meet Me In London’
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### Author:  [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/13 "2003-01-16T18:48:08Z")
“London You’re A Lady”- The Pogues
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/14 "2003-01-16T18:48:31Z")
There’s Gershwin’s “A Foggy Day in London Town.”
I suppose songs by Julie London don’t count. 🙂
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### Author:  [@cart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cart)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/15 "2003-01-16T18:54:03Z")
Towers of London - XTC
London Loves - Blur
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/16 "2003-01-16T18:56:15Z")
Hey, if you want something longer there’s Rush: The Camera Eye. Half of it is about London and the feel of the place.
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/17 "2003-01-16T18:58:16Z")
How about the well-known tune “London Derriere”? 😉
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/18 "2003-01-16T18:58:25Z")
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> \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \*
> **There’s Gershwin’s "A Foggy Day in London Town."**
Oooo, good one.
Try this:
_A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square_ - Various artists (I’m partial to the Manhattan Transfer and Mel Torme)
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### Author:  [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/19 "2003-01-16T19:16:19Z")
Noel Coward’s **London Pride** , written early in WW2, and supposedly based on the Cockney flowersellers’ street chant:
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> London Pride has been handed down to us.
> London Pride is a flower that’s free.
> London Pride means our own dear town to us.
> And our pride it forever will be . . .
> Grey city stubbornly implanted,
> Taken so granted for a thousand years.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-songs-about-london/149009/20 "2003-01-16T19:55:57Z")
_I see London
I see France
I see **Tsarina’s**
Underpants!_
Daniel
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