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 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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