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Songs about South Australia
This page lists a number of South Australian towns & locations, along with songs they have been mentioned in.
Population: 1,598,000. Capital city: Adelaide. Other notable locations: Coober Pedy, Port Augusta, Port Lincoln
| LOCATION | SONG | ARTIST | LISTEN | SAMPLE LYRICS / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADELAIDE | Adelaide | Ben Folds | Youtube | Learning that there is no hurry, fuss or worry, Adelaide |
| ADELAIDE | Adelaide | John Cale | Youtube | I want to go home, I want to go home, I want to go back to Adelaide |
| ADELAIDE | Adelaide | Paul Kelly | Youtube | Down past the hedges all in a row in Adelaide, Adelaide |
| ADELAIDE | Adelaide | Rockfords | Youtube | I'll take you with me when I go down to Christmas in the summertime, Adelaide |
| ADELAIDE | Adelaide SA | Sonny Rolfe | They let me off last Friday and I got out on the track, gave me all my money and I'm never coming back, filled the truck with goodies and some whisky in my pack, Adelaide SA's looking good | |
| ADELAIDE | Australiana | Austen Tayshus | Youtube | Noosa Heads of course, me mate Adelaide 'em on me |
| ADELAIDE | Bradman | Paul Kelly | Youtube | From Adelaide to Brisbane the runs did not abate, he hit 'em hard, he hit 'em straight |
| ADELAIDE | Came From Adelaide | Codabeen Champions Greg Champion | Youtube | Came from Adelaide man, came from Adelaide man, South Australian made man, drank Woodies lemonade man |
| ADELAIDE | Carrington Cabaret | Redgum | In the dirt filled gutters on the cold concrete, at the nightclub end of Hindley Street | |
| ADELAIDE | Caught In The Act | Redgum | Down to Adelaide, walk around, see just how boring that is | |
| ADELAIDE | Dark Old Street | Bakewell Street | Adelaide, A-Adelaide, the city's asleep and the church is bare | |
| ADELAIDE | From The Gulf To Adelaide | Slim Dusty | ||
| ADELAIDE | Hindley Street | Powderfinger | Youtube | The Hindley Street parade shuffles to my door |
| ADELAIDE | Home & Broken Hearted | Cold Chisel | Youtube | Bought a second-hand Morris for a cheap two-twenty and drove it down to Adelaide |
| ADELAIDE | Howl At The Moon | Don Walker | He fires it of into the heart of the night and lays a strip of rubber from Adelaide to Wittenoom | |
| ADELAIDE | In South Australia I Was Born | Greg Champion | In South Australia I was born, hip hooray, Adelaide | |
| ADELAIDE | Ireland Over Here | Traditional | And County Cork in Adelaide did appear. Traditional bush ballad | |
| ADELAIDE | Lear Jets Over Kulgera | Redgum | It's a long hot road from Adelaide to Lincoln when the radiator's hissing steam | |
| ADELAIDE | Let's Stomp Australia Way | Tony Brady | In Adelaide town it's a gettin' around, stomp is here to stay | |
| ADELAIDE | Lost In Adelaide | Spiderbait | Youtube | I lost you down in Adelaide, I'd like to say I'm looking for you now |
| ADELAIDE | Made It To Adelaide | San Clemente Sky | ||
| ADELAIDE | Mad Tight | Bliss N Eso | Youtube | Adelaide (what what), your style is mad tight |
| ADELAIDE | Mr Bad Example | Warren Zevon | Youtube | Fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide, looking through the want ads sipping Fosters in the shade |
| ADELAIDE | My Adelaide | Jessica Monck | Triple J Unearthed | Though I'm not one for the sun, my love will never fade for Adelaide |
| ADELAIDE | Not The Sunscreen Song | John Safran | Youtube | Travel as often as you can. Live in New York City once. Live in northern California once. Never live in Adelaide, it's a hole. |
| ADELAIDE | One More Boring Night In Adelaide | Redgum | Youtube | Well it's one more boring Thursday night in Adelaide, and it looks like everybody must have died |
| ADELAIDE | Peter The Cabbie | Redgum | Peter's a cabby on Adelaide roads and in five o'clock traffic that's a hard road to hoe | |
| ADELAIDE | Pickin' Up The Pieces | Tania Kernaghan | And now your wife's long gone back home to Adelaide | |
| ADELAIDE | Plaza | Cold Chisel | I've been living in the Plaza Hotel, it ain't the Hilton but I live well. The Plaza Hotel is located on Hindley Street in Adelaide | |
| ADELAIDE | The Power To Win | Port Adelaide Power Football Club | Youtube | We've got the power to win, power to rule, come on Port Adelaide agression |
| ADELAIDE | Pride Of South Australia | Adelaide Crows Football Club | Youtube | We're the pride of South Australia, we're the mighty Adelaide Crows |
| ADELAIDE | Search And Loss In Adelaide | David Bridie | ||
| ADELAIDE | Servin' USA | Redgum | Youtube | Toxic carpark jungle, west to Adelaide (inside, outside, USA) |
| ADELAIDE | Sitting In A Bar In Adelaide | Skyhooks | I was sitting in a bar in Adelaide, starin' at the barmaids tits | |
| ADELAIDE | Stopping All Stations | Hilltop Hoods | Youtube | The next train to Adelaide will depart from platform one, stopping all stations |
| ADELAIDE | Three Sons | John Williamson | Sent the boys off to school to see Adelaide, how other folks live, get a job, learn a trade | |
| ADELAIDE | Town With No Cheer | Tom Waits | Youtube | From Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander |
| ADELAIDE | Virgin Ground | Redgum | In pucky little offices in Adelaide you count company profits but you're underpaid | |
| ADELAIDE | Wanganeen Is So Special | Greg Champion | When we wake up in the morning we’ll be off to Adelaide, we are the umpies for the showdown, Footy Park, Saturday | |
| ADELAIDE | We Are The Crows | Greg Champion | Hear the roar when we score from the Bay to Semaphore, we are the South Australian Crows | |
| BAROSSA VALLEY | Barossa Valley Wine | Neville Anderson | ||
| BAROSSA VALLEY | Barrie From Barossa | Codabeen Champions | Spoken word | |
| COOBER PEDY | Coober Pedy | John Williamson | It's a long road to Coober Pedy, tryin' to write a note to you | |
| COOBER PEDY | Coober Pedy | Sunny Cowgirls | Youtube | He's in love with the girl behind the bar in Coober Pedy |
| COOBER PEDY | Coober Pedy Cabana | Col Elliot | ||
| FLINDERS RANGES | A Thousand Miles Away | Traditional | On the far Barcoo, and the Flinders too, a thousand miles away. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the late 1800's | |
| FLINDERS RANGES | On The Flinders | Traditional | Jack was one of the rowdy push, he was just in from the bush, he had come to work upon the Flinders. Traditional bush ballad | |
| GAWLER | Song Of Gawler | Judy Gillett-Ferguson | Now Gawler stands round Murray Street, round Murray Street, built on its industrial base | |
| INNAMINCKA | Innamincka | Paul Furniss | Instrumental jazz recording | |
| INNAMINCKA | Innamincka Muster | Slim Dusty | Youtube | Oh they've mustered all the cattle on the Innamincka Run |
| INNAMINCKA | Take Me Back To Innamincka | John Vincent Greg Champion | ||
| KANGAROO ISLAND | Kangaroo Island | Al Mullins & Janine De Lorenzo | From the soundtrack to the TV series A Shared Table | |
| KI KI | Don't Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan | Youtube | It's Lang Lang and it's Ki Ki, Wangi Wangi and Woy Woy |
| LAKE EYRE | Australiana | Austen Tayshus | Youtube | Well Bo says, "Come in starkers, wattle Lake Eyre" |
| LAKE EYRE | Lake Eyre | Don Harper | Instrumental ambient / classical music | |
| MAITLAND | Caitlin From Maitland | Andy Armstrong | ||
| MURRAY BRIDGE | When The Snow Falls On The Alice | Lee Kernaghan | I've seen every lonely roadhouse from Charleville to Murray Bridge | |
| OODNADATTA | I've Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | I was humpin' my bluey on the dusty Oodnadatta road |
| PARACHILNA | Keep The Kettle Boiling | Greg Champion | Well I used to be a railway man on the Parachilna line | |
| PORT AUGUSTA | El Alamein Blues | Catfish | All the world is sleeping off the day's El Alamein Blues. El Alamein is an army training base 9km south of Port Augusta | |
| PORT AUGUSTA | John Wayne Visits Port Augusta | Not Drowning, Waving | ||
| PORT AUGUSTA | Keep The Kettle Boiling | Greg Champion | Four hundred miles from Port Augusta, into the wild unknown | |
| PORT AUGUSTA | The Last Frontier | Redgum | Youtube | There's a corrugated highway leading north from Port Augusta |
| PORT AUGUSTA | Port Augusta | Slim Dusty | Life in Port Augusta, things don't change | |
| PORT AUGUSTA | Port Augusta School Of The Air Song | Woden Valley Youth Choir | ||
| PORT LINCOLN | Cool Hand Lukin | Paul Kelly | Back in Port Lincoln they were holding their breath, Martinez and Lukin, the only ones left | |
| PORT LINCOLN | Diggers Of The ANZAC | John Williamson | Youtube | Things'll never be the same in Port Lincoln since the made a movie there |
| PORT LINCOLN | Don't Say I'm No Good | Paul Kelly | You can write to me at Port Lincoln poste restante | |
| PORT LINCOLN | Drinkin' In Port Lincoln | Cold Chisel | Youtube | And it feels much better when they get to thinkin' of the nights ahead when they hit Port Lincoln |
| PORT LINCOLN | Lear Jets Over Kulgera | Redgum | It's a long hot road from Adelaide to Lincoln when the radiator's hissing steam | |
| PORT PIRIE | Where Ya Gonna Run To? | Redgum | Enrich the oxide out of Port Pirie | |
| SMOKY BAY | Old Smoky Bay | Amos Morris | I yearn for the great Southern ocean that rolls into old Smoky Bay | |
| SMOKY BAY | Smoky Bay | Ian Quinn | I came and went to Smoky Bay | |
| SOUTH AUSTRALIA | Bound For South Australia | Traditional Clancy Brothers John Williamson The Pogues Tommy Emmanuel | Youtube | In South Australia I was born, heave away, haul away . Traditional bush ballad |
| SOUTH AUSTRALIA | In South Australia I Was Born | Greg Champion | On pie floaters we were raised, and Woody Woodroofe’s lemonade, and we disliked those eastern states, back in South Australia | |
| SOUTH AUSTRALIA | Ooh-Ahh South Australia | Coodabeen Champions | ||
| SOUTH AUSTRALIA | Pride Of South Australia | Adelaide Crows Football Club | Youtube | We're the pride of South Australia, we're the mighty Adelaide Crows |
| SOUTH AUSTRALIA | Treat Yo Mama | John Butler Trio | Youtube | I got a couple of sista's in South Australia, stopping the uranium from coming up |
| WALLAROO | Wallaroo | Anthony Classen | Down at Wallaroo, yeah Wallaroo, dancing on the beach |
