New South Wales

Songs about New South Wales

This page lists a number of New South Wales towns & locations, along with songs they have been mentioned in.
Population: 6,889,100. Capital city: Sydney. Other notable locations: Byron Bay, Jindabyne, Tamworth

Also, be sure to check out my blog posts about The Middle East and Dyan Tai which both feature songs relating to New South Wales towns.

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SONG	ARTIST	LISTEN	SAMPLE LYRICS / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


songs about SYDNEY
Anonymous From Sydney	Diplomat
Australia	Kinks	Youtube	We’ll fly down to Sydney for our holiday on sunny Christmas day, Australia, Australia
Australia Square	Bernard Bolan		I earn my bread with Sydney spread six hundred feet below
Bradman	Paul Kelly & The Messengers	Youtube	Sydney, 1926, this is the story of a man
A Brief History	Waifs	Youtube	Now you’re living in Sydney in some dingy room in a house full of strangers on Ramsgate Avenue
Caught In The Act	Redgum		Back to Sydney in time to start work, if in fact you’re lucky enough to have a job
Chain Around My Ankle	John Williamson	Youtube	In the finest harbour in the world in a cove they’re calling Sydney
City Of Lights	Grant McFarland
Comin’ From / Khe Sanh	Adam Brand	Youtube	The last plane out of Sydney’s almost gone
Diamantina Drover	Redgum John Williamson Lee Kernaghan	Youtube	Sometimes I think I’ll settle back in Sydney
Don’t Go To Sydney	Zimmermen	Youtube	Don’t go to Sydney baby, don’t overreact, I know you think that Melbourne is holding you back
Down Under In The Outback	Rolf Harris		Back home in the outback you’re the one girl I know, but up here in Sydney they come and they go
Eora	Robert James		Eora, beneath old Sydney town, lost we all are without them around
Eye Of The Tiger	Wests Tigers NRL Club	Youtube	And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night, and he’s watching us all in the eye of the tiger. Originally by Survivor, Eye Of The Tiger is also the Wests Tigers NRL club theme song
Fast Boat To Sydney	Dawn Knight & The Casuals Johnny Cash	Youtube	And while I’m home with the blues I’ll be hoppin’ like a kangaroo, when I get off of that fast boat to Sydney
Frank Gardiner	Traditional		Oh, Frank Gardiner he is caught at last and he lies in Sydney jail Traditional bush ballad, written about bushranger Frank Gardiner*
From Little Things Big Things Grow	Kev Carmody Paul Kelly Waifs Getup Mob	Youtube	Then Vincent Lingiarri boarded an airplane, landed in Sydney, big city of lights
Girl On Fire	INXS	Youtube	Girl on fire, I felt the heat, from Sydney to London
Ghost Town	Cold Chisel		Waking up in Sydney babylon is what it’s all about
Half Way To Sydney	Dead Ringer Band
Home & Broken Hearted	Cold Chisel	Youtube	Hiked up to Sydney in the week before Christmas, it was thirty-eight degrees in the shade
Hot Pie And Tomato Sauce	John Meillon		Hot pie and tomato sauce, from Perth to Sydney they all endorse
In A Southern Garden	Dorothea Mackellar		It is evening in a garden by the kindly water-side, a garden near the lights of Sydney town
Incident On South Dowling	Paul Kelly	Youtube	I couldn’t save my baby, we lived on the first floor, we lived in two rooms. South Dowling is a street running through Sydney
In The Valley	Midnight Oil	Youtube	And his wife fled south to Sydney seeking out safe harbour
Ireland Over Here	Traditional		If the Blarney Stone stood out on Sydney Harbour. Traditional bush ballad
I Wonder What They’re Doing (In Sydney Today)	Mick Thomas
Khe Sanh	Cold Chisel	Youtube	You know the last plane out of Sydney’s almost gone
Larrikin Town	Keith Glass
Last Train Out Of Sydney	Flyspeak
Lavender	Go-Betweens		She’s been to Sydney once, no more, they poisoned her water and nailed her door
The Legend Of Barry Kable	TOFOG	Youtube	Well he’d ride with me, spit on me, take me on in Crown Street, he crossed that road like a river
Letter To Alan	Cold Chisel	Youtube	Now I’m walking in the dark, like bells our dogs are yelling, all across Centennial Park
Lights Of Sydney Town	Roaring Jack	Youtube	Let her go, let her go, blow boys blow, blow out the lights of Sydney Town
The Loveletter From Sydney	Steve Kilbey
Mad Tight	Bliss N Eso	Youtube	Hey yo, Sydney (what what), your style is mad tight
Manchester	Doug Anthony All Stars	Youtube	Bad luck Manchester, bad luck son, you put in a good bid, but Sydney won
Melbourne To Sydney In 18 Hours	Bushwackers
Mission Beat	TOFOG	Youtube	Billy got a job working for the Sydney City Mission, driving around everyday picking up the people
My City Of Sydney	XL Capris Frenzal Rhomb Mary Schneider	Youtube	My city of Sydney I miss the warmth of you, miss the heart of your people
Notre Dame Victory March	Sydney Swans Football Club	Youtube	What thou the odds be great or small, Swans will go in and win overall
Old Sydney Town	Alopi Latukefu & The Palermo Express	Youtube	You know it’s the greatest city, the world’s greatest city, the greatest city, old Sydney town
On The Road	Cold Chisel	Youtube	The Duke was howlin’ down in Sydney town, and when the Duke’s around, there’s just one place to be
O Sydney	Jackie Marshall		O Sydney I’m leaving you for my old home town
O! Sydney I Love You	Rita Schneider
Painted Doll	Cold Chisel	Youtube	Lookin’ down Sydney Harbour in the rain, my pretty baby’s slappin’ up another vein
The Pitt Street Farmer	John Williamson		Just use your wit a little bit, yes that’s it, I’m a Pitt Street farmer
Power And The Passion	Midnight Oil	Youtube	Sydney, nights are warm, daytime telly, blue rinse dawn
River Of Tears	Kev Carmody The Drones	Youtube	Well there’s a cold rain on the Autumn wind, a brother murdered in Sydney Town
Road Trip	Kind Of Pluto		Take the coastal road through Eden cause I’m headed up to Sydney
Servin’ USA	Redgum	Youtube	Sydney, Wagga, Brisbane and Boganville (inside, outside, USA)
Shark Island Sydney	Al Mullins & Janine De Lorenzo		from the soundtrack to the TV series A Shared Table
Ship My Body Home	Ben Lee	Youtube	Coming out of Sydney, country music playing, cursing all of them who stayed in the city
Somewhere In Sydney	The Skyhooks		Somewhere in Sydney there’s a lady so pretty
South Sydney Rabbitohs	South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL Club	Youtube	Glory glory to South Sydney, South Sydney marches on
Streets Of Sydney	Slim Dusty
Summer In Sydney	Ricky May
Sundays In Sydney	Dave Steel
Sydney 2000	John Williamson	Youtube	Yeah say that you miss me and put it in the mail, care of Sydney 2000, New South Wales
Sydney Barcarolle	The Wiggles	Youtube	The city, the beach, the surf and the sun, so may places to play
Sydney Blues	Gerry Joe Weise		Hey baby, I’m going down to Sydney, hey baby, won’t you come along with me
Sydney Born Man	SCRA
Sydney Bound	Will Scarlet
Sydney By Night	James Morrison	Youtube	Instrumental
Sydney From A 727	Paul Kelly & The Messengers	Youtube	Have you ever seen Sydney from a 727 at night? Sydney shines such a beautiful light
Sydney Girls	Rose Tattoo		Oh my oh my, makes me wanna cry, cotton brown dresses, Sydney girls, hi
Sydney Harbour Girls	Bazz & Pilko
Sydney Ladies	The Dingoes Jimmy Barnes	Youtube
Sydney Or The Bush	Norma O’Hara Murphy Noel Watson
Sydney Roosters	Sydney Roosters NRL Club		Here come the Roosters, the best we’ve ever seen, the red, white and bluesters, the Eastern Suburbs team
Sydney Song	Eskimo Joe	Youtube	Oh man you can’t see, it seems the way of Sydney
Sydney To Newcastle	Middle East	Youtube	FEATURED!
Sydney Town	Gary Shearson Mexican Spitfires	Youtube
Sydney Water Song	Ian McNamara
This Is Sydney	Modern Giant
Thou Shalt Not Steal	Kev Carmody John Butler Trio	Youtube	In 1788 down Sydney Cove the first boat people land
Too Long	Catfish		We made love in a sky-way car at the Royal Easter Show. The Royal Easter Show is an annual Sydney event
Under A Southern Sky	Beautiful Girls	Youtube	The sunrise bleeds into the bay, landed in Sydney, nothing’s changed
Virgin Ground	Redgum		Sydney town 1885, sulphur air and blackened skies
Why Sydney?	Dyan Tai	Youtube	FEATURED! Why, why Sydney?


songs about SYDNEY – BELLEVUE HILL
Somewhere In Sydney	Skyhooks		The radio’s playin’ just as fast as you drive, somewhere in Sydney upon Bellevue Hill


songs about SYDNEY – BELROSE
Newtown	Cuthbert & The Nightwalkers	Youtube	But I’m still back in Belrose, that leafy suburb


songs about SYDNEY – BLACKTOWN
Down In Blacktown	Gerry Joe Weise		Go back down, way back down, Blacktown baby


songs about SYDNEY – BONDI
Bondi	Cog	Youtube
Bondi	Elliot Weston
Bondi Beach Boogaloo	Gerry Joe Weise
Manchester	Doug Anthony All Stars	Youtube	They haven’t got an Opera House, or a Harbour Bridge, they haven’t got no Bondi’s, they’ve got no Botany Bays
Marvelous	12th Man	Youtube	From Bondi in the east to Bunbury in the west
The Old Pacific Sea	Barry Crocker Barry Humphries	Youtube	Oh I was down by Bondi pier, drinking tubs of ice-cold beer
Section 5 (Bus To Bondi)	Midnight Oil	Youtube	Section 5 (bus To Bondi), push start that car tomorrow
Western Waves	Robert James		From Bondi to Cottesloe,I still hear you from these distant waves


songs about SYDNEY – BOTANY BAY
A New South Wales	The Alarm	Youtube	Great is the rape of the fair country, to Botany Bay for my great grandfathers deportation sailed
Botany Bay	Traditional	Youtube	Mind all is your own as you touchesses, or you’ll find us in Botany Bay. Traditional bush ballad
Botany Bay Courtship	Traditional		1830′s traditional bush ballad
I Can’t Feel Those Chanis Any Longer	John Williamson	Youtube	We’ve come a long way since Botany Bay and now we’re two hundred years old
Ireland Over Here	Traditional		And Killarney’s lakes flowed into Botany Bay. Traditional bush ballad
Jim Jones At Botany Bay	Bushwackers	Youtube	They’ll yet regret they sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the early 1900′s
Manchester	Doug Anthony All Stars	Youtube	They haven’t got an Opera House, or a Harbour Bridge, they haven’t got no Bondi’s, they’ve got no Botany Bays
Playing For The Traffic	Malkies		He was playing for the traffic and the nine to fivers, tooraloo you’re bound for Botany Bay
To The Shores Of Botany Bay	Bushwackers	Youtube	To take a trip on an immigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay. Traditional bush ballad


songs about SYDNEY – BROADWAY
The Door	Cold Chisel	Youtube	Hostile city, running out the door again, pulled a big escape along Broadway, the man came calling seven times today


songs about SYDNEY – CABRAMATTA
Cabramatta Sunrise	Backsliders
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about SYDNEY – CAMPERDOWN
Rose Of Camperdown	Holly


songs about SYDNEY – CANTERBURY
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs NRL Club		That’s why we’re Bulldogs, we play like Bulldogs


songs about SYDNEY – CARINGBAH
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about SYDNEY – CASTLE HILL
Moreton Bay	Traditional John Denver Bernard Fanning		At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie


songs about SYDNEY – CHATSWOOD
Koala Sprint	Midnight Oil	Youtube	It’s a long way from Chatswood to the top of the gulf


songs about SYDNEY – CHIPPENDALE
Strange Days In Chippendale	Richard Clapton		I’ve been standing downtown Central, leaving teardrops on the ground


songs about SYDNEY – CIRCULAR QUAY
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda	Eric Bogle	Youtube	And as our ship sailed into Circular Quay, I looked at the place where me legs used to be
Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers	Midnight Oil	Youtube	The days are wasted drinking at the First & Last Hotel. Refers to a pub that was situated in Circular Quay, Sydney, up until it closed in 1986
If We Can’t Get It Together	You Am I	Youtube	Four to seven at Circular Quay, a present in your pocket for the TAB
Reckless	Australian Crawl	Youtube	As the Manly ferry cuts its way to Circular Quay
Rose Bay Ferry	Bernard Bolan		So hold on, be merry, on the Rose Bay ferry, until we get to Circular Quay you’ll see


songs about SYDNEY – COLLAROY
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about SYDNEY – COOGEE
The Girl I Met	John Williamson		It was ’71 in Coogee Bay, we cried and gave our hearts away


songs about SYDNEY – CREMORNE
The Cremorne Waltzes	A.H.H.		Instrumental piano composition dedicated to the visitors of Cremorne, published between 1851 and 1856


songs about SYDNEY – CRONULLA
Cronulla Point	Martin Cilla		Instrumental surf guitar
Cronulla Sharks	Cronulla Sharks NRL Club	Youtube	Up up Cronulla, the boys in the black, white and blue


songs about SYDNEY – CURL CURL
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga	Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan	Youtube	You don’t call Curl Curl “Curl”


songs about SYDNEY – DARLINGHURST
Darlinghurst Confidential	Celibate Rifles
Darlinghurst Nights	Go-Betweens	Youtube	Joe played a cello through those Darlinghurst nights
Darlinghurst Road	Noel Watson
Darling It Hurts	Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls	Youtube	Darling it hurts to see you down Darlinghurst tonight
Working Girls	Redgum		Laundromat in Darlinghurst, like a fish shop from the past


songs about SYDNEY – DOBROYD POINT
Who Can Stand In The Way	Midnight Oil	Youtube	I was hanging round off Dobroyd Point when the first fleet chain sailed in


songs about SYDNEY – EMU PLAINS
Moreton Bay	Traditional John Denver Bernard Fanning		Norfolk Island and Emu Plains


songs about SYDNEY – ENGADINE
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about SYDNEY – ENMORE
Siege Of Union Street	Alistair Hulett	Youtube	To Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore and Petersham, calls went out, “workers unite”


songs about SYDNEY – ERSKINEVILLE
Sicilian Born	Graeme Connors
Siege Of Union Street	Alistair Hulett	Youtube	Their mum does what she can to make ends meet, and she’s down at the siege of Union Street. Union Street is located in Erskineville


songs about SYDNEY – FIVE DOCK
The Cicada That Ate Five Dock	Outline	Youtube	Cicada, cicada, cicada, cicada that ate Five Dock


songs about SYDNEY – GIRRAWEEN
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about SYDNEY – GLEBE
Glebe	Tactics
Lauren From Glebe	Muscles	Youtube	Lauren from Glebe, you were there from the start


songs about the SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE
Happy Birthday Harbour Bridge	Jim Low		And you’ve watched the Sydney skyline rise, you’ve breathed the air of polluted skies, oh, Sydney Harbour Bridge, happy birthday
Harbour Bridge Song	Peter Combe		And the Harbour Bridge has a magic spell, a magic spell, a magic spell
I Just Want Some Love	Melanie Horsnell	Youtube	I take the bus across the Harbour Bridge, down George Street, on the L90
Let It Be Me	Andy White		I’m driving on the Sydney Harbour Bridge on a Friday evening, the stars look closer underneath this magical sky
Manchester	Doug Anthony All Stars	Youtube	They haven’t got an Opera House, or a Harbour Bridge, they haven’t got no Bondi’s, they’ve got no Botany Bays
My City Of Sydney	XL Capris Frenzal Rhomb Mary Schneider	Youtube	Miss the Opera House lights from the Bridge, and the nights in a quiet Hyde Park


songs about SYDNEY – HORNSBY
Houndog	Cold Chisel	Youtube	Ride the line to Hornsby station, find my circus animals again


songs about SYDNEY – HYDE PARK
My City Of Sydney	XL Capris Frenzal Rhomb Mary Schneider	Youtube	Miss the Opera House lights from the Bridge, and the nights in a quiet Hyde Park


songs about SYDNEY – LILLI PILLI
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga	Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan	Youtube	You’d look pretty silly calling Lilly Pilli “Lilli”


songs about SYDNEY – KINGS CROSS
Breakfast At Sweethearts	Cold Chisel	Youtube	Hey streetsweeper, clear my way, Sweethearts breakfast the best in town. Although no longer standing, Sweethearts Cafe was situated in Kings Cross
At The Piccolo Bar	Don Walker
El Alamein Blues	Catfish
From St Kilda To Kings Cross	Paul Kelly	Youtube	From St Kilda to Kings Cross is thirteen hours on a bus
Girls On The Avenue	Richard Clapton	Youtube	Girls on the avenue, they’re trying to get you in, strollin’ by with a rosebud smile
Have You Ever Been To See Kings Cross	Frankie Davidson	Youtube	Have you ever been to see King’s Cross where Sydney-siders meet
Letter To Alan	Cold Chisel	Youtube	Round this time a year ago, Gaskill sold his boat, and headed for the Cross to sink a few
Metho Blues	Cold Chisel		Kings Cross is my home, and all night long I roam
My City Of Sydney	XL Capris Frenzal Rhomb Mary Schneider	Youtube	Night folks thirsting for fun meeting most everyone, at the Cross as they toss in their merry balloon
Shadow Boxer	Angels	Youtube	In the liner notes of the Angels album Wasted Sleepless Nights, John Brewster writes, “it was inspired by seeing someone punching a light pole in Kings Cross late one night who was obviously off their face.”
Working Girls	Redgum		It was a profile in the neon and a Kings Cross doorway lean


songs about SYDNEY – KIRRIBILLI
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube
Lady Gowrie Lookout	Dan Schaumann	Youtube	As we paint our names here at Lady Gowrie Lookout, Georgie and James here at Lady Gowrie Lookout


songs about SYDNEY – LAVENDER BAY
Long Jumping Jeweller (Of Lavender Bay)	Little River Band		I’m gonna let my heart take me away, I’m the long jumping jeweler of Lavender Bay


songs about SYDNEY – LEICHARDT
Norton Street	Raoul Graf


songs about SYDNEY – MANLY
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles NRL Club		Manly Warringah, Manly Warringah, we’ll all be marching beside you this year
Reckless	Australian Crawl	Youtube	As the Manly ferry cuts its way to Circular Quay


songs about SYDNEY – MAROUBRA
Maroubra Bay	Jeannie Lewis
Stomping At Maroubra	Little Pattie	Youtube	There’s a dance that they’re doin’ down Maroubra way, the surfies and the sandies will make it stay


songs about SYDNEY – MARRICKVILLE
Miracle In Marrickville	John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong	Youtube	I found a miracle in Marrickville, I found a prayer for me behind the factories
River Of Tears	Kev Carmody Drones	Youtube	Shot him dead in his Marrickville bed


songs about SYDNEY – MILPERRA
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about SYDNEY – NARRABEEN
The Boys Of Narrabeen	Quill & Tolhurst		Let your fury sound, oh, Huey send her down, and bring home the boys of Narrabeen
Glass Love / Narrabeen	Andrew Kidman		From the soundtrack to the surfing film, Glass Love
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube
Narrabeen	Robert James		Narrabeen, northern beaches spindrift in her eyes, she shivers, when she climbs aboard the ocean waves
Surfin’ USA	Beach Boys	Youtube	Santa Cruz and Trestles (inside, outside, USA), Australia’s Narrabeen (inside, outside, USA)


songs about SYDNEY – NEWTOWN
God Drinks At The Sando	Whitlams		Cause God drinks down at the Sandringham these days, since the Shakespeare changed its name. The Sandringham (Sando) is a pub situated in Newtown
King Street	John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong	Youtube	A new day dawns in the heart of Newtown outside the Coles new world
Newtown	Cuthbert & The Nightwalkers	Youtube	I wish I moved to Newtown with my three friends
Newtown Dreaming	Mixed Relations
Newtown Song	Chasers War On Everything (Andrew Hansen)		There’s a thousand songs I’ve written and they are all about bloody Newtown. Written as a parody of The Whitlams lead singer, Tim Friedman, suggesting he obsesses about Newtown in his songwriting
Rock ‘n’ Roll And A Schooner Of Beer	McBodybag
Siege Of Union Street	Alistair Hulett	Youtube	To Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore and Petersham, calls went out, “workers unite”
Twelve Hours	Whitlams	Youtube	I coudn’t see what is was that reminded you to me, so we walked up to King Street for goodbye
Year Of The Rat	Whitlams		Newtown I love you but you try and kill me, gotta hold your head up in the year of the rat


songs about SYDNEY – NORTH SHORE
North Shore Girls Get Off	David Beniuk
Somewhere In Sydney	Skyhooks		So much truth and so much hype, I get anonymous letters from the North Shore


songs about the SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
Manchester	Doug Anthony All Stars	Youtube	They haven’t got an Opera House, or a Harbour Bridge, they haven’t got no Bondi’s, they’ve got no Botany Bays
My City Of Sydney	XL Capris Frenzal Rhomb Mary Schneider	Youtube	Miss the Opera House lights from the Bridge, and the nights in a quiet Hyde Park


songs about SYDNEY – PADDINGTON
Oxford Street	Dorian Mode
Paddo Sharps	Celibate Rifles	Youtube


songs about SYDNEY – PALM BEACH
Deep Water	Richard Clapton	Youtube	Sittin’ out on the Palm Beach road, I’m so drunk and the car won’t go


songs about SYDNEY – PARRAMATTA
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube
Parramatta Eels	Parramatta Eels NRL Club		If you want to see how footballs played then come and see the Eels
Parramatta Hot Rod Man	Whiteliners
Sweeney	Slim Dusty	Youtube	He was born in Parramatta and he said with humour grim, that he’d like to see the city, ‘ere the liquor finished him
Tomorrow	Cold Chisel		Rivers of light, a million souls, I’m three days out of Parramatta jail


songs about SYDNEY PENNANT HILLS
Since Cheryl Went Feral	Jim Haynes		It took us ages to hitch our way from Pennant Hills up to Byron Bay


songs about SYDNEY – PENRITH
The Free Selector’s Daughter	Traditional		Not long ago near Penrith town lived a free selector’s daughter. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1870′s
Penrith Panthers	Penrith Panthers NRL Club	Youtube	Go the mighty Panthers, there’s a chance here to be great


songs about SYDNEY – PETERSHAM
Siege Of Union Street	Alistair Hulett	Youtube	To Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore and Petersham, calls went out, “workers unite”


songs about SYDNEY – RANDWICK
Randwick Bells	Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls Jimmy Little		Randwick bells are ringing, must be Saturday


songs about SYDNEY – REDFERN
House Of The Rising Flood	Kevin Bloody Wilson	Youtube	They sent volunteers from Redfern to show them how it’s done
Ivy Street	Mexican Spitfires	Youtube	The girl on Ivy Street, she makes me feel good, she makes me feel neat
Strange Days In Chippendale	Richard Clapton		I’ve been shuffling down the Redfern streets, backyards without a lawn
Warakurna	Midnight Oil	Youtube	There is enough for everyone, in Redfern as there is in Alice


songs about SYDNEY – ROSE BAY
Rose Bay Ferry	Bernard Bolan		Every morning at eight twenty-five, down to the Rose Bay wharf I drive


songs about SYDNEY – STANMORE
The Battle Of Stanmore	Died Pretty
Siege Of Union Street	Alistair Hulett	Youtube	To Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore and Petersham, calls went out, “workers unite”


songs about SYDNEY – ST GEORGE
Bradman	Paul Kelly	Youtube	St George took a gamble, played him in first grade


songs about SYDNEY – ST PETERS
Duncan	Slim Dusty	Youtube	We drink at the Town & Country where the atmosphere is great. The Town & Country is a hotel in St Peters, Sydney


songs about SYDNEY – STRATHFIELD
Murder City Nights	Radio Birdman	Youtube	Cruising down Woodward gotta find me some action. Woodward Ave is located in Strathfield
Rockwood	Mexican Spitfires


songs about SYDNEY – SUMMER HILL
Summer Hill Road	Executives	Youtube	Summer Hill Road with the rain falling down, Summer Hill Road, the circus in town


songs about SYDNEY – SURRY HILLS
The Cricketer’s Arms	Paddy McHugh & The Goldminers	Youtube	Well they met in a pub, it was the Cricketer’s Arms, he was a drunk, she worked behind the bar
Crown Street	Women In Docs	Youtube	It’s ok, she’s fine, she found love on Crown Street


songs about SYDNEY – TAMARAMA
Tamarama Doorslammer	Killers On The Loose



songs about SYDNEY – TERRY HILLS
Newtown	Cuthbert & The Nightwalkers	Youtube	And do you know where we’re gonna go, Terry Hills, the place I wanna be, Terry Hills


songs about SYDNEY – TOONGABBIE
Moreton Bay	Traditional John Denver Bernard Fanning		At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie


songs about SYDNEY – TURRAMURRA
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about SYDNEY – WARRINGAH
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles NRL Club		Manly Warringah, Manly Warringah, we’ll all be marching beside you this year


songs about SYDNEY – WEDDING CAKE ISLAND
Wedding Cake Island	Midnight Oil	Youtube	Instrumental


songs about SYDNEY – WHITE BAY
The White Bay Paper Seller	Judy Small		She sells the daily papers on the corner at White Bay


songs about SYDNEY – WOOLLOOMOOLOO
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube
Lanes Of Woolloomooloo	John Dengate
My City Of Sydney	XL Capris Frenzal Rhomb Mary Schneider	Youtube	That little church steeple in Woolloomooloo
My Name It Is McCarthy	Traditional		I am a perfect daisy, won’t work because I’m lazy, all gone wrong with the boozing throng that lives in Woolloomooloo. Traditional bush ballad
Numbers Fall	Cold Chisel		Walkin’ down Forbes Street, early hours of Woolloomooloo
Ruby	Catfish		Ruby’s lookin’ all over the water, Paris end of Woolloomooloo
That’s The Way To Spell Woolloomooloo	Traditional		W double O, L double O, M double O, LO, O
Ticket In Tatts	Weddings Parties Anything	Youtube	We walk along the seafront, from Woolloomooloo to Bennelong
The Ups And Downs Of An Old Stockman	Traditional		He stole me watch, he stole me chain, he stole me wallet too, I got six months for what I did to the bloke at Woolloomooloo. Traditional bush ballad
Woolloomooloo Lair	Bushwackers	Youtube	But I owe a lot to him, cause he taught me how to swim, when he heaved me off the pier at Woolloomooloo
Woolloomooloo Sunset	David McCormack & The Polaroids


songs about ADELONG
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about ALBURY
Albury Ram	Traditional Flat Rock Drive Raymond Crooke	Youtube	As I was going to Albury along the other day, I saw the finest sheep sir, was ever fed upon hay
Gotta Root Out Of It	TISM	Youtube	Drops in to tell us that we are one big Albury-Wodonga


songs about BALLINA
Ballina Whalers	Harry Robertson Fatsus	Youtube	For it’s out of Ballina we’ll sail, fishing for the humpback whale


songs about BANGALOW
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube
Stuttering Flo From Bangalow	Rita Schneider
To Her Door	Paul Kelly	Youtube	He went to the Buttery, stayed about a year. The Buttery is a a drug and rehabiliation clinic situated close to Bangalow


songs about BATEMAN’S BAY
Bateman’s Bay	Jeff Lang	Youtube	I’m hangin’ round Bateman’s Bay, waiting to see what’s mine
Bootscooting Beverly From Bateman’s Bay	Rita Schneider


songs about BATHURST
Bathurst To Byron Bay	Neil Higgins		Time to plan for my escape to the twilight and the moonlight on the bay, well it’s a long way from old Bathurst to Byron Bay
Boys From Bathurst	Lee Kernaghan	Youtube	We’re all here, we’re the Bathurst Boys, and you can’t hear that show against the noise. To the tune of Boys From The Bush
Four Walls	Cold Chisel	Youtube	Well the Bathurst riots ended when they clubbed the rebels down


songs about BILLINUDGEL
Billinidgel	Slim Dusty
The Game	Cold Chisel	Youtube	And as the evening fell around the old hotel, the stranger left his dial-tone, his place was gone in the game. Refers to the Billinudgel Hotel
Wonthaggi	John Williamson		But we’ll be cruising northbound, away from the frosty moon, Murwillumbah or maybe Billinudgel


songs about BINALONG
Frank Gardiner	Traditional		Young Vane, he has surrendered, Ben Hall’s got his death wound, and as for Johnny Gilbert, near Binalong was found


songs about the BLUE MOUNTAINS
Australiana	Austen Tayshus	Youtube	And it was a great joint too, Blue Mountains away and his Three Sisters
The Rugged Blue	E.D. Downs		And there out by Echo Point, I’ll mourn those sisters three. Poem


songs about BOGGABILLA
Boggabilla Bus	Play School
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube
Wobbly Boot Hotel (Boggabilla Pub)	Stan Coster John Williamson	Youtube	You never will find another substitute, peace of mind like the Wobbly Boot


songs about BOGGABRI
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube
Stay	Sunny Cowgirls		Met a boy, lived out need Boggabri, at the local pub after work one Friday night


songs about BONG BONG
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga	Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan	Youtube	You don’t call Bong Bong “Bong”


songs about BOOMI
Goondiwindi Pork	John Williamson		I was talkin’ to a bloke in Boomi ’bout his two-pronged garden fork


songs about BOURKE
Back ‘A’ Bourke Girl	Craig Giles
Back To Bourke Weekend	Stan Coster
The Ballad Of 1891	Helen Palmer Raymond Crooke	Youtube	Then we’ll pack the west with troopers, from Bourke to Charters Towers
North Bourke Bridge	Colin Buchanan
The Springtime It Brings On The Shearing	Traditonal		From Boonabri up to the border, then it’s over to Bourke; there and back. Traditional bush ballad, written in 1865 by E.J. Overbury
Streets Of Bourke	Neil Murray


songs about BOWRAL
Our Don Bradman	Jack O’Hagan Art Leonard	Youtube	When the boy from Bowral hits four after four


songs about BOWRAVILLE
Chillin’ In Bowraville	Wire		From the indigenous youth Hip Hop compilation album, All You Mob
George From Bowraville	George From Bowraville		From the indigenous youth Hip Hop compilation album, All You Mob
Knock ‘Em Down Bowra	Bowraville Mob		From the indigenous youth Hip Hop compilation album, All You Mob


songs about BRINDABELLA
Brindabella	Luke Oshea & Medicine Wheel
Brindabella Morning	Rolf Harris
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about BROKEN HILL
Broken Hill Blues	Gerry Joe Weise		I got my Broken Hill blues
The Bus To Broken Hill	John Dengate
Derrick From Broken Hill	Derrick From Broken Hill		From the indigenous youth Hip Hop compilation album, All You Mob
Inside A Fireball	Hunters & Collectors	Youtube	Down Main Street with the dust in my lungs, the blisters on my shoulder, the end has just begun
Khe Sahn	Cold Chisel	Youtube	I’ve had the Vietnam cold turkey from the ocean to the Silver City. Broken Hill is colloquially known as the Silver City
Moving On	Roaring Jack		Jimmy was a good man, worked for a quid, in a town near Broken Hill
Pickin’ Up The Pieces	Tania Kernaghan		No wonder they call it Broken Hill, when everything you love eems to fall apart
Push A Wheelbarrow	John Williamson Sara Storer & Greg Storer		Push a wheelbarrow to Broken Hill, test your endurance, test your skill
This Is Not The Way Home	Cruel Sea	Youtube	Left early without payin’ the bill, hitch-hiked back to Broken Hill


songs about BUNGENDORE
The Ghosts Of Bungendore	Shaza Leigh		Now housing the ghosts of Bungendore


songs about BYRON BAY
Ballina Whalers	Harry Robertson Fatsus	Youtube	And we’ll drive him into Byron Bay and we’ll shoot him with our gun
Bathurst To Byron Bay	Neil Higgins		Time to plan for my escape to the twilight and the moonlight on the bay, well it’s a long way from old Bathurst to Byron Bay
Belle Of Byron Bay	Gibb Todd		We languished in each others arms until the break of day, there I swore my life away to the Belle of Byron Bay
Between Kempsey And Byron Bay	Ether		Instrumental ambient music
Blue Bay Blues	Richard Clapton	Youtube	I’ll bet they’re having fun up in Byron Bay, all our friends
Bye Bye Byron Bay	Re-Mains		Only got one thing left to say, here it comes, bye bye Byron Bay
Byron Bay	Bikini The Cat	Youtube	Small waves breaking on my legs, small rocks playing with my feet
Byron Bay	Stylus
East	Cat Empire		We head east, up to Byron Bay
Forgotten Beach (Byron Bay)	Robert James	Youtube	Under the lighthouse we were lost, on the beach in the sand at Byron Bay, I remember
Goodbye Byron Bay	Wolfman
Gypsy Girl From Byron Bay	Andrew Reid
Jim Jones At Byron Bay	Mick Thomas & The Sure Thing
Mad Tight	Bliss N Eso	Youtube	Byron Bay (what what), your style is mad tight
Next Stop Byron Bay	Dimi		That’s why I’m heading off to Byron Bay, I will take the bus, I’m on my way
Road Trip	Kind Of Pluto		Take the road through Port Macquarie cause I’m headed up to Byron
Servin’ USA	Redgum	Youtube	If everybody in Australia, Perth to Byron Bay, got on a jumbo, to California
Since Cheryl Went Feral	Jim Haynes		It took us ages to hitch our way from Pennant Hills up to Byron Bay
Sunset At Byron Bay	Tinki Band		Instrumental ambient music
Tropical Fever	John Williamson		It hits me when I see the sign to Byron Bay


songs about CANOWINDRA
Canowindra Means Home	Colin Buchanan	Youtube	Canowindra means home, though you may roam, there’s always a welcome here


songs about CAPTAINS FLAT
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about CARCOAR
Frank Gardiner	Traditional		For plundering of the gold escort, the Carcoar Mail also, and it was for gold he made so bold, and not so long ago


songs about CASINO
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about COBAR
A Hundred Tons Of Washing (On The Cobar Line)	Ian McNamara
Cobar Line	Lee Kernaghan		Going back to Cobar, goodbye Sydney town
Bucket Of Dew / Paddy Condon From Cobar	Wiggles	Youtube	Instrumental
Rocko	Colin Buchanan		I took off down the Cobar track with Rocko’s songs still ringing in my ears


songs about COFFS HARBOUR
Coffs Harbour Blues	Hard-Ons		I went to a disco Saturday Night, I couldn’t dance cause my pants were too tight. Aside from the title, there is no mention of Coffs Harbour in the song
Coffs Harbour Mission	Margaret & Talea		rom the indigenous youth Hip Hop compilation album, All You Mob
Russell Crowe’s Band	Frenzal Rhomb	Youtube	Don’t get extortion threats from the Coffs Harbour saloon


songs about COLEAMBAILY
By The Time I Get To Howlong	Spiderbait		In a sunny car, in sunny Coleambaily with me, babe


songs about COME BY CHANCE
Come By Chance	Darren Colston
Sons Of The Country	Colin Buchanan		You’re from Come By Chance, Busselton and Crookwell


songs about COPMANHURST
Merry-Go-Round	Cold Chisel	Youtube	Saturday morning I’ll be down by the river, getting whipped at the Copmanhurst rodeo


songs about COOTAMUNDRA
Cootamundra (On The Main Truck Line)	Ian McNamara
Cootamundra Tumbarumba Stockinbingal Dance	Rita Schneider
Cootamundra Wattle	John Williamson Kasey Chambers Melinda Schneider	Youtube	Hey it’s July and the winter sun is shining and the Cootamundra wattle is my friend


songs about CROOKWELL
Sons Of The Country	Colin Buchanan		You’re from Come By Chance, Busselton and Crookwell


songs about the DARLING RIVER
The Last Frontier	Jimmy Barnes	Youtube	Pushing ever westward across the Great Divide, beyond the Darling River towards the outback sky
Sweeney	Slim Dusty	Youtube	It was somewhere in September and the sun was going down, when I came in search of coffee to a Darling River town
Where The Murray Meets The Darling	Tania Kernaghan		Where the Murray meets the Darling, she gave her heart away


songs about DENILIQUIN
Australia – The World’s Suburb	TISM	Youtube	Kurds get gas and die to win, land from Yass to Deniliquin
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about DORRIGO
Dear Old Dorrigo	Buddy Williams Reg Poole
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr	Youtube


songs about DUBBO
Show Me A Better Way	John Williamson		From Dubbo to Denny to Wagga and Gundagai


songs about DURANBAH
Bigger Than Bells (Message From The Surf Gods)	Matti Biskit	Website	Destination Duranbah, breakfast at the burger shop

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