# Rock Songs with US States in Title
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 30, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971 "2014-10-30T04:33:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/1 "2014-10-30T04:33:03Z")
Here’s five to start:
_Colorado_ Flying Burrito Brothers
_Mississippi Queen_ Mountain
_Montana_ Frank Zappa
_Blue Hawaii_ Elvis
_Ohio_ CSN&Y
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/2 "2014-10-30T04:43:45Z")
_Sweet Home Alabama_ Lynyrd Skynyrd
_The Devil Went Down to Georgia_ Charlie Daniels
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/3 "2014-10-30T04:50:19Z")
_Nebraska_ - Springsteen
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/4 "2014-10-30T04:51:24Z")
_Hotel California_ Eagles
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/5 "2014-10-30T05:10:14Z")
California, NY - every damn song
Sufjan did two albums (Michigan & Illinois), almost completely about those states and with the state name in at least one song title.
Sweet Georgia Brown (aka the Globetrotters song) not rock I guess. The Devil… is the only other one I can think of, which I guess does
Red House Painters - New Jersey
Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) - as covered by the Doors
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/6 "2014-10-30T05:10:57Z")
\*Montana \* - Frank Zappa
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/7 "2014-10-30T05:30:22Z")
_Massachusetts_: The Bee Gees
_Jim Dean of Indiana_: Phils Ochs, although maybe more folk than rock
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> \*Montana \* - Frank Zappa
In the OP.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/8 "2014-10-30T05:36:22Z")
_Arizona_ by Mark Lindsay. It’s about a woman named “Arizona,” but the OP didn’t say the song had to be about the state.
_Massachusetts_ by the Bee Gees
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### Author:  [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/9 "2014-10-30T05:53:38Z")
_Indiana Wants Me_ R. Dean Taylor
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### Author:  [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/10 "2014-10-30T07:56:39Z")
“The Three Great Alabama Icons”- Drive-By Truckers
“The Boys from Alabama”- Drive-By Truckers
“Alabama”- Neil Young
“Alabama”- Cross Canadian Ragweed
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### Author:  [@Waterman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waterman)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/11 "2014-10-30T07:59:49Z")
_Kentucky Woman_ by Neil Diamond
_Louisiana 1927_ by Randy Newman
_Texas Flood_ by Stevie Ray Vaughan
_Kansas City_ by Wilbert Harrison
_Virginia Moon_ by Foo Fighters
_Jersey Girl_ by Tom Waits
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### Author:  [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/12 "2014-10-30T08:17:03Z")
**Arizona** (about the state) by the Dutch band the Buffoons.
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### Author:  [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/13 "2014-10-30T10:56:15Z")
California Dreaming
Georgia On My Mind
Rainy Night in Georgia
Midnight Train to Georgia
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### Author:  [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/14 "2014-10-30T11:56:37Z")
Colorado Rocky Mountain High --John Denver
New York State of Mind -----Billy Joel
The night the lights went out in Georgia.
[Indiana](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6fjFyY_WHw) by a local guitarist who played in bars there and put out a couple record albums in the 1980s
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hmmm…so far, we’ve had more mentions of Georgia and Alabama than any other states.
It would be neat if somebody could keep track of which state wins.
(Maybe even start a game thread : Post song titles , one for each state , in alphabetical order.Could you get 50 posts? Has anybody ever written a song about North Dakota? Delaware? The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ? 🙂 )
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/15 "2014-10-30T12:05:58Z")
By The Time I Get To Arizona - Public Enemy
(Hey, it’s more rockin’ than John Denver or Phil Ochs…)
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/16 "2014-10-30T12:40:43Z")
_Kansas City_, Muddy Waters. Well, Kansas is a state too.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/17 "2014-10-30T12:41:48Z")
The Tennessee Waltz
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### Author:  [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/18 "2014-10-30T12:47:29Z")
Private Idaho by the B-52s
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### Author:  [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/19 "2014-10-30T12:56:15Z")
I thought of Pennsylvania 6-5000 (Glenn Miller and His Orchestra) and Our Delaware (the official song of the state of Delaware).
Then I realized we were looking for rock songs. I’l get back to you.
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### Author:  [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-songs-with-us-states-in-title/702971/20 "2014-10-30T12:56:35Z")
Indiana Wants Me by R. Dean Taylor
It Never Rains in Southern California by Albert Hammond
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