Victoria
Songs about Victoria
This page lists a number of Victorian towns & locations, along with songs they have been mentioned in.
Population: 5,205,200. Capital city: Melbourne. Other notable locations: Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong
| SONG | ARTIST | LISTEN | SAMPLE LYRICS / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| songs about MELBOURNE | |||
| A Lazy Lunch In Melbourne | Al Mullins & Janine De Lorenzo | From the soundtrack to the TV series A Shared Table | |
| A Mile Over Melbourne | Strawpeople | ||
| A Town With No Cheer | Tom Waits | Youtube | There’ll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo from Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander |
| Accidentally Hoddle Street | Peril | Accidentally Hoddle Street, where people and bullets sometimes meet | |
| Accidentally Kelly Street | Frente | Youtube | Accidentally Kelly Street, where friends and strangers sometimes meet |
| Alamian Train | North To Alaskans | ||
| All Torn Down | Living End | There is no direct mention of Melbourne in the song but the video clip depicts images of the city | |
| Anderson’s Coat | John Warner | And somewhere west, Port Melbourne lies, and where are you, my Annie? | |
| Australia | Guttermouth | Youtube | |
| Autumn Leaves | Huxton Creepers | Youtube | The video clip was filmed partly in the Royal Botanic Gardens |
| Ball… Yes! | Motors | ||
| Beat Parade | Even | Youtube | |
| Beautiful People | Australian Crawl | Youtube | Beautiful people, Studio 54 is the only place to dance |
| Bourke Street On Saturday Night | Traditional | Can any bloke point to a better old joint, than Bourke Street on a Saturday night. Written in 1918 by P.C. Cole | |
| (Boys!) What Did The Detectives Say? | Sports | Youtube | We’re going down to Russell Street |
| Burke And Wills And Me | Masters Apprentices | In 1859 three men left Melbourne town, tramping down a dusty road | |
| Busselton To Melbourne | Meg O’Riley | Triple J Unearthed | So I’m leaving Busselton, going back to Melbourne, and you should have seen the smile on my face |
| Caught In The Act | Redgum | Back to Melbourne, as you come from Sydney, you feel very superior | |
| Charcoal Lane | Archie Roach | Youtube | |
| Christmas In Melbourne | Broderick Smith | ||
| Coming Home | Mark Seymour | ||
| Crazy Crazy Melbourne | Wall Of Voodoo | ||
| 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 |
| Four Seasons In One Day | Crowded House | Youtube | |
| From The… To The… | Scared Weird Little Guys | From the palm trees of Lower Templestowe to the palm trees of Glenroy, that’s Melbourne, that’s our Melbourne | |
| Getting Colonized | Traditional | They prove quite clearly by their rigs that Melbourne girls are colonized. Traditonal bush ballad | |
| Goodbye Melbourne Town | Traditional Slim Dusty |
Youtube | If I make a fortune I’ll come back and spend it in dear old Melbourne town. Traditional bush ballad written by Leonard Nelson in 1934 |
| Goodbye, Phar Lap, Goodbye | Traditional | We got the news in Melbourne and all felt pretty sad. Traditional bush ballad from 1932 | |
| Happy Birthday Helen | Things Of Stone And Wood | Youtube | Let’s not forget last night, yeah how we drove along the Yarra |
| Hello Cruel World | Klinger | Youtube | From St Kilda to Watsonia North is fourteen hours by public transport |
| Highway 31 | Johnny Chester | Youtube | Johnny has stated he wrote this song after noticing signs for Highway 31 heading out of Melbourne on his way to Sydney |
| Home Again | Mark Seymour | ||
| Hoochie Gucci Fioruchi Mama | Australian Crawl | Youtube | Mistaking tacky sex for sensuality they bought in Toorak Road |
| Hursty | Bias B | Youtube | Catching blue trains on Hursty line, pieced by peasant jewel |
| I Dream Of Spring | k.d. lang | Youtube | I’ll return from the streets of Melbourne, I’ll return my love |
| Ireland Over Here | Traditional | If Dublin Town to Melbourne came to stay. Traditional bush ballad | |
| It’s A Grand Old Flag | Melbourne Demons Football Club | Youtube | We’re the Demons that no one can lick, lick, lick, and you’ll find us there at the final bell |
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | Mentions the Yarra River |
| January Rain | Hunters & Collectors | Youtube | Crouched upon the ocean is the city that I live in |
| John Cain Avenue | My Friend The Chocolate Cake | All the people in my street, they’re all tending to their garden | |
| Last House On The Left | Sports | The last house on the left, we’re doing nothing, nothing’s doing but it’s ok | |
| Last Saturday Night | Chris Wilson | ||
| Leaps And Bounds | Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls | Youtube | I’m high on the hill looking over the bridge to the MCG |
| Let’s Go Walk This Town | My Friend The Chocolate Cake | ||
| Let’s Stomp Australia Way | Tony Brady | They’re doin’ it down in Melbourne now, stompin’ Australia way | |
| Mad Tight | Bliss N Eso | Youtube | Hey yo, Melbourne (what what), your style is mad tight |
| Melbourne | Alexander Duncan | Triple J Unearthed | Thank God Melbourne’s big enough to get lost in |
| Melbourne | Whitlams | Youtube | Walking ’round the rainy city, what a pity there’s things to do at home |
| Melbourne Blue To Melbourne Green | John Williamson | Melbourne blue to Melbourne green, the prettiest picture you’ve ever seen | |
| Melbourne City | David Bridie | ||
| Melbourne Cup | Slim Dusty | Youtube | For a year we’ve all been waiting and we’ve put our money up, and we’re out to back the winner of the famous Melbourne Cup |
| Melbourne Girls | Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls | Another crash landing but we’re still standing and we will survive, Melbourne girls don’t cry | |
| Melbourne Mafia | Dave Graney | Youtube | Have you heard about the Melbourne mafia, they don’t make no sense, they talk another lingo |
| Melbourne Song | Colin Hay | Youtube | The land was stripped bare, just nothin’ there, so we headed down back to Melbourne town |
| Melbourne Storm | Melbourne Storm NRL Club | Youtube | We are the Storm from Melbourne Town, we’ll blow the others off the ground |
| Melbourne Summer | iOTA | Youtube | Through the window a tree shines from street light, Melbourne summer is cloudy and alright |
| Melbourne To Sydney In 18 Hours | Bushwackers | ||
| Melbourne Town | Greg Champion | We’re just out doin’ the round, toolin’ around in Melbourne Town | |
| Melbourne Town | Neil Murray | ||
| Melbourne’s Just Not New York | Little Heroes | ||
| Mourningtown Ride | TISM | Youtube | Don’t get off the train at Richmond, the skins want your Doc Martins |
| Move On | Jet | Youtube | 10.34, Flinders Street Station, I’m lookin’ down the tracks |
| My Brown Yarra | Whirling Furphies | When I die put me in a barra, wheel me down to the banks of the Yarra | |
| My Name Is Brodie | Distillers | ||
| Napier’s Bar | Cheezlekane | ||
| Ned Kelly | Rolf Harris | Youtube | And three years locked him in Melbourne’s Pentridge Jail gave him that Ned Kelly brand |
| Nothing Beats The Fooy At The MCG | Mike Brady | ||
| Poor Ned | Redgum | Youtube | You know they took Ned Kelly and they hung him in the Melbourne Gaol |
| Postcards From Melbourne | Graf | ||
| Pub | Cosmic Psychos | Youtube | At the Petersham, at the Esplanade, pub |
| Regent To Ruthven | Marcel Borrack | ||
| Return To The City Of Folded Arms | Bluebottle Kiss | Youtube | Straight to the city of folded arms, I can’t be bothered to siphon out it’s charms |
| Roaring Days | Weddings Parties Anything | Youtube | Oh take me down to Young and Jackson’s, we’ll do a bit of serious drinking. Young & Jackson’s is a pub in Melbourne |
| Roll On | Living End | Youtube | The shipyards are deserted on the docks of Melbourne town |
| Servin’ USA | Redgum | Youtube | We’ll all be serving in Queensland, Hobart, Melbourne and Russell Hill (inside, outside, USA) |
| Sex Fiend | Lyrical Commission | I tell you its fucking insane, I got chicks from Melbourne up to Brisbane | |
| Sixteen In Melbourne | Ron Rude | I’m sixteen in Melbourne, I ain’t got no girl | |
| The Boy Who Lost His Jocks On Flinders Street Station | Painters & Dockers | Youtube | He walked down Platform Three with a schoolcap on his head, a runny nose and a cut on his knee |
| Stuck In Melbourne | Warner Bros | ||
| Suburb In Between | Mabels | ||
| Take It In | Waifs | Youtube | So we step outside into this Melbourne weather |
| That’s The Thing About Football | Greg Champion | Youtube | I got a long road to walk down, to catch a tram to my favourite ground |
| The Beautiful Look City Today | Gersey | Youtube | |
| The Clarke Sisters | Go-Betweens | Youtube | They had problems with their father’s law, they sleep in the back of a feminist bookstore |
| The Crowd | Cat Empire | Youtube | I’m just another clown kicking around in Melbourne town |
| The History Of Western Civilisation | TISM | ||
| The Mordialloc Road Duplicator | TISM | ||
| Town With No Cheer | Tom Waits | Youtube | From Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander |
| Tropical London | Rancid | Youtube | Melbourne is a tropical London, I met a girl in a tropical London |
| Under The Clocks | Weddings Parties Anything | Hey, hey, I see a Melbourne girl on a rusty Malvern Star | |
| Under The Rotunda | Lucksmiths | Youtube | We live here but we’re sightseers |
| Victoria’s Secrets | Augie March | Every night I pick the locks on that white Victorian box | |
| Waverley | Loin Groin | ||
| Waverley | Wagons | ||
| Whatever Happened To The Old Pubs | Shonkyytonk | ||
| When I First Met Your Ma | Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls | Youtube | I walked two miles in Melbourne rain, I could have walked ten more |
| Whole Lotta Rosie | AC/DC | Youtube | Written about a Tasmanian woman who Bon Scott partied with in Melbourne |
| With My Swag All On My Shoulder | Traditional Seekers |
Youtube | And then we came to Melbourne town, we all prepared to slip. Traditional bush ballad |
| songs about MELBOURNE – ALBERT PARK | |||
| Gasworks Park | Ice Cream Hands | ||
| songs about MELBOURNE – BALWYN | |||
| Balwyn Calling | Skyhooks | Youtube | Hey boy that’s Balwyn calling, get on the phone and do a bit of stalling |
| songs about MELBOURNE – BRIGHTON | |||
| Brighton Creeper | Wendy & The Rockets | ||
| songs about MELBOURNE – BRUNSWICK | |||
| Brunswick | Weddings Parties Anything | Youtube | When I ain’t been to Brunswick for a long long time |
| Brunswick Girl | Warner Bros | ||
| Death In Brunswick | Phillip Judd | From the soundtrack to the movie, Death In Brunswick | |
| East Brunswick Run Down | City, City, City | ||
| songs about MELBOURNE - CARLTON | |||
| Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo) | Skyhooks | Youtube | The sun sets over Carlton, the moonlight floods the streets |
| We Are The Navy Blues | Carlton Blues Football Club | Youtube | We’re the team that never lets you down, we’re the only team old Carlton knowsTo the tune of Lily Of Laguna |
| songs about MELBOURNE – CAROLINE SPRINGS | |||
| Spring Me Out Of Caroline Springs, Caroline | ROOT! | Come rescue me, I’m only twenty minutes from the CBD if you drive at 250, Caroline | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – COLLINGWOOD | |||
| Collingwood | Sharp | ||
| Collingwood Boy | Bakewell Street | ||
| Good Old Collingwood Forever | Collingwood Magpies Football Club | Youtube | Good old Collingwood forever, they know how to play the gameTo the tune of Goodbye Dolly Gray |
| Grey Skies Over Collingwood | Strange Tennants | ||
| Hail Hail The Pies Are Here | Greg Champion | Youtube | Hail hail the Pies are here, Collingwood forever, Collingwood forever |
| Under The Clocks | Weddings Parties Anything | He stands outside a Collingwood hotel | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – CRANBOURNE | |||
| The Mordialloc Road Duplicator | TISM | There’ll be turn offs to Tootgarook, Cranbourne, Frankston and Five Ways | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – DANDENONG | |||
| Greg! The Stop Sign | TISM | Youtube | And graffiti the Dandenong line |
| songs about MELBOURNE – ESSONDON | |||
| See The Bombers Fly Up | Essondon Bombers Football Club | Youtube | See the Bombers fly up, up, to win the premiership flag. To the tune of Keep Your Sunnyside Up |
| songs about MELBOURNE – FITZROY | |||
| Ballad Of 1975 | Alistair Hulett | I remember the day I was no more than a boy, working in an oxide plant at the back of North Fitzroy | |
| Deep In Our Hearts We All Barrack For Fitzroy | Greg Champion Coodabeen Champions |
Youtube | Deep in our hearts everyone barracks for Fitzroy, whether we say we barrack for somebody else or not |
| Fitzroy Strongman | Sodastream | Youtube | Bringing down this pretty useless town, it’s a useless town |
| Old Fitzroy | Dan Sultan | Youtube | Little boy you’re my pride and joy, the only good thing about old Fitzroy |
| Rushall Station | Underground Lovers | Youtube | |
| Spring Me Out Of Caroline Springs, Caroline | ROOT! | They say you grew up on the golden mile, went to Fitzroy just to slum it | |
| Streets Of Old Fitzroy | Harry & Wilga Williams And The Country Outkasts | ||
| songs about MELBOURNE – FLEMINGTON | |||
| Dad’s Flowers | John Williamson | Dad’s been selling flowers all his life and grandpa grew em too, he’s a well known man round Flemington, he’s probably sold a bunch to you | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – FOOTSCRAY | |||
| Footscray | Billy Miller & Gary Adams | ||
| Sons Of The West | Western Bulldogs Football Club | Youtube | Cause you can’t beat the boys of the Bulldog breed, the team of the mighty west. To the tune of Sons Of The Sea |
| songs about MELBOURNE – FRANKSTON | |||
| The Frankston Line | Youth Group | The Frankston line’s full of teenage crime and the cops can’t do no more | |
| The Mordialloc Road Duplicator | TISM | There’ll be turn offs to Tootgarook, Cranbourne, Frankston and Five Ways | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – GLEN WAVERLEY | |||
| Greg Champion | Back To Glen Waverley For Christmas | ||
| songs about MELBOURNE – HAWTHORN | |||
| The Mighty Fighting Hawks | Hawthory Hawks Football Club | Youtube | We’re a happy team at Hawthorn, we’re the mighty fighting Hawks. To the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| songs about MELBOURNE – HIGHETT | |||
| The Highett Waltz | Barry Humphries | Youtube | For it’s all beautifully quiet in Highett, where my daughter and son in law dwell |
| songs about MELBOURNE – KEW | |||
| The Maryborough Miner | Traditional The Larrikins |
I puddled the clay at Bendigo and chanced my arm at Kew. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930′s | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – LAVERTON | |||
| Scorn Of The Women | Weddings Parties Anything Jon English |
Youtube | My screwdriver in hand, making aircraft out at Laverton |
| songs about MELBOURNE – MANDOORAH | |||
| Mandoorah Reservoir | Augie March | ||
| songs about MELBOURNE – MORDIALLOC | |||
| The Mordialloc Road Duplicator | TISM | If you’re behind a truck or freighter say, "thank God for the Mordialloc Road duplicator" | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – MULGRAVE | |||
| VFL Park In The Dark | Greg Champion Coodabeen Champions |
Youtube | Down at VFL Park, VFL Park in the dark. VFL Park (currently known as Waverley Park) is situated in Mulgrave |
| songs about MELBOURNE – NORTHCOTE | |||
| Northcote (So Hungover) | Bedroom Philosopher | Youtube | |
| Three Oh Seven Ohh | Blood Duster | Youtube | Used to breathe the Northcote air and it smelled like the dole, til all the artists came, it has taken a toll |
| Under The Clocks | Weddings Parties Anything | Through the spastic Northcote streets at dawn | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – NORTH MELBOURNE | |||
| Join In The Chorus | North Melbourne Kangaroos | Youtube | Join in the chorus, North Melbourne’s on the ball. To the tune of A Wee Doch And Doris |
| songs about MELBOURNE – PRESTON | |||
| Three Oh Seven Ohh | Blood Duster | Youtube | Out to Preston, I move out of the three oh seven oh |
| songs about MELBOURNE – RICHMOND | |||
| Oh, We’re From Tigerland | Richmond Tigers Football Club | Youtube | Oh, we’re from Tigerland, a fighting fury we’re from Tigerland. To the tune of Row, Row, Row |
| songs about MELBOURNE – ROWVILLE | |||
| 14 Years In Rowville | TISM | Youtube | You may as well obey the law, I sentence you to Rowville |
| songs about MELBOURNE – SANDRINGHAM | |||
| The Sandringham Line | Lucksmiths | Youtube | The twenty-seven minutes of the Sandringham line, the suburbs sliding past |
| songs about MELBOURNE – SPRINGVALE | |||
| The Mordialloc Road Duplicator | TISM | From lower Springvale to the Frankston Freeway, until you get to that bitumen stain | |
| songs about MELBOURNE- ST KILDA | |||
| From St Kilda To Kings Cross | Paul Kelly | Youtube | From St Kilda to Kings Cross is thirteen hours on a bus |
| Killed Her In St Kilda | Voodoo Lovecats | ||
| Melodies Of St Kilda | Masters Apprentices | Youtube | |
| The Rise And Rise Of The Reverand Bobby’s Buskers | GANGgajang | She saw the buskers on a hot summer night and followed them to St Kilda in the rain |
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| St Kilda Nights | Purple Dentists | ||
| Sunshower | Little Stevies | Youtube | Walking down St Kilda pier I hear your voice in my ear |
| The Crowd | Cat Empire | Youtube | We’re going to sleep on the St Kilda sands |
| When The Saints Go Marching In | St. Kilda Saints Football Club | Youtube | Oh how I want to be with St Kilda when the Saints go marching in |
| songs about MELBOURNE – SUNBURY | |||
| Sunbury ’97 | Fauves | Youtube | Come on lets run, follow the sun, follow Sunbury 97 |
| songs abot MELBOURNE – SUNSHINE | |||
| The Sunshine Disaster | Traditional | He was driving a Bendigo engine, the train was running all right, it was going along as usual, til Sunshine came in sight. Traditional bush ballad written about the Sunshine train disaster on April 20, 1908 | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – THOMASTOWN | |||
| Thomastown | Not Drowning, Waving | Youtube | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – THORNBURY | |||
| Thornbury | Ruck Rover | The rods have got potholes and your car falls apart | |
| songs about MELBOURNE – TOORAK | |||
| Toorak Cowboy | Skyhooks | ||
| songs about MELBOURNE – TULLAMARINE | |||
| Where Ya Gonna Run To? | Redgum | A long white car out at Tullamarine | |
| songs about APOLLO BAY | |||
| Apollo Bay Skies | Moira Tyers | Apollo Bay Skies, stars sparkle until the sun comes arisen over Marriners Hill | |
| Hardly Slept In Days | Enjoy Yourself Always | Well I’ve hardly slept in days, I’ve been surfing waves at Apollo Bay | |
| I’m On My Way (To Apollo Bay) | Lionel Lee | I’m finally on my way down this winding road to Apollo Bay | |
| I Wanna Play Apollo Bay | Weekend Rockstars | But I wanna play Apollo Bay, I really wanna get the gig | |
| songs about ARARAT | |||
| Australia – The World’s Suburb | TISM | Youtube | Imagine if old Yassa Arafat was given everything east of Ararat |
| Bush Telegraph | John Williamson | And there’s been a fight in Dinny Ryan’s bar at Ararat | |
| songs about BALLARAT | |||
| The Ballarat Horse Auctioneer | Traditional | You’ll not in all Ballarat find one like him. Traditional folk ballad dating from the 1850s | |
| The Cockies Of Bungaree | Traditional | Youtube | I’ll never forget the day I met that cocky in Bungaree. Traditional bush ballad. Bungaree is situated just east of Ballarat |
| Bush Telegraph | John Williamson | There’s rumour of a gold strike to the south of Ballarat | |
| Go To Nashville | John Williamson | Sounding more like Haggard than a guy from Ballarat | |
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | |
| The Maryborough Miner | Traditional The Larrikins |
I’ve been on all the diggings boys from famous Ballarat. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930′s | |
| The Nugget Family | Traditional | I’m going to tell you about a family in Ballarat, sir, their name is Nugget and they’ve lived some time upon the flat, sir. Traditional bush ballad dating back to 1858 | |
| With My Swag All On My Shoulder | Traditional Seekers |
Youtube | We made our way to Geelong town, and north-west to Ballarat. Traditional bush ballad |
| songs about BEECHWORTH | |||
| Brisbane To Beechworth | Matt Taylor | ||
| The Wild Colonial Boy | Traditional Clancy Brothers |
Youtube | He stuck up the Beechworth mail coach and robbed Judge Macoboy. Traditional bush ballad |
| songs about BENDIGO | |||
| Bendigo | Dave Hughes | Comedy routine | |
| Bendigo (Welcome Stranger) | Keith Glass | ||
| Bush Telegraph | John Williamson | Fat lambs brought a record price last week in Bendigo | |
| The Digger’s Farewell | Traditional | I will bid my kind friends one and all a long and sad adieu, for on Bendigo I man not be again. Traditional bush ballad | |
| Gold Song | Milk | I sailed off to Bendigo where I heard the streets were paved with gold | |
| The Grog Tent We Got Tipsy In | Traditional | The grog tent we got tipsy in, in old Bendigo, was certainly the queerest place it’s been my lot to know. Traditional bush ballad | |
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | |
| Lady From Bendigo | Eric Bogle | And if you love me let it show, my lady from Bendigo | |
| Let Me Go To Bendigo | Traditional | Let me go by the very first train, back to Bendigo again. Traditional bush ballad | |
| The Maryborough Miner | Traditional The Larrikins |
I puddled the clay at Bendigo and chanced my arm at Kew. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930′s | |
| Shazza And Michelle | ROOT! | Down in Bendigo there were these two girls, Shazza and Michelle, they won a talent contest, they could sing that well | |
| The Sunshine Disaster | Traditional | He was driving a Bendigo engine, the train was running all right, it was going along as usual, til Sunshine came in sight. Traditional bush ballad written about the Sunshine train disaster on April 20, 1908 | |
| With My Swag All On My Shoulder | Traditional Seekers |
Youtube | Some tried their luck at Bendigo and some at Fiery Creek. Traditional bush ballad |
| songs about BENNISON | |||
| Dear Diary (Nyora Railway Journal) | John Warner | Dear diary, Bill’s been gone these seven days, carting sleepers down at Bennison, or some such place | |
| songs about BILLABONG | |||
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | |
| songs about BRIGHT | |||
| By The Time I Get To Howlong | Spiderbait | Mist on the road, driving to Bright again | |
| songs about CAMPERDOWN | |||
| Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | Camperdown to Coleraine, they’ve all been kind to me | |
| songs about CASTLEMAINE | |||
| The Wild Colonial Boy | Traditional Clancy Brothers |
Youtube | Of poor but honest parents, he was born in Castlemaine. Traditional bush ballad |
| songs about COCKATOO | |||
| The Maryborough Miner | Traditional The Larrikins |
And I wound up my avocation with ten years on Cockatoo . Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930′s | |
| songs about DANDENONG | |||
| Great Southern Navvy | John Warner | From Dandenong to Yarram in a couple of years or two | |
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | |
| Marvelous | 12th Man | Youtube | From Darwin to the Dandenongs |
| songs about EUROA | |||
| The Kelly Gang | Traditional Buddy Williams |
Youtube | It was in November ’79 the Kelly boys came down, after shooting Sergeant Kennedy they rode into Euroa town |
| songs about GEELONG | |||
| We Are Geelong | Geelong Cats Football Club | Youtube | We are Geelong the greatest team of all, we are Geelong, we’re always on the ball. To the tune of Toreador from Carmen |
| Gee Geelong | Mark Pengilly | Gee Geelong, gee Geelong, how come you get all the blondes | |
| The Good People Of Geelong | San Clemente Sky | ||
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | |
| Out To Winchelsea | Greg Champion | Spent enough time round Corio Bay, didn’t mean to stay this long. Corio Bay is adjacent to Geelong | |
| We Were Geelong | Greg Champion | We were Geelong the greatest team of all, we were Geelong we, were always on the ball | |
| With My Swag All On My Shoulder | Traditional Seekers |
Youtube | We made our way to Geelong town, and north-west to Ballarat. Traditional bush ballad |
| songs about GIPPSLAND | |||
| Gippsland Mining Man | John Waner | I’m a Gippsland mining man and I’ll tell you while I can | |
| South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | Arise, you Gippsland cockies, two hours before the sun, you’ve sixteen God given hours to fill before the day is done | |
| Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | But the hills and vales of Gippsland are something to be seen | |
| songs about GREAT OCEAN ROAD | |||
| Citronella | Guild League | Youtube | The car reads a curve as the road writes a crest, slow-motion the ocean is ironing its creases |
| Great Ocean Road | Andy Glandt | Youtube | Great Ocean Road and amazing countryside on the huge Australian island |
| Great Ocean Road | John Williamson | Couldn’t let the moment slip away, love was the mood down the Great Ocean Road | |
| The Great Ocean Road | San Clemente Sky | ||
| songs about HAMILTON | |||
| Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | And the Highway down to Hamilton is a fine one to ride | |
| songs about KILMORE | |||
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | |
| songs about KOO WEE RUP | |||
| Australia – The World’s Suburb | TISM | Youtube | All those guys would rather blow it up than move their home to Koo Wee Rup |
| Great Southern Navvy | John Warner | And we’ll dig your muddy railway out of Koo-Wee-Rup | |
| songs about KORUMBURRA | |||
| South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | A bloke to Korumburra came and went in for a drink, he left his dray and bullock team which then began to sink | |
| songs about LAKE BOLAC | |||
| Goin’ Off | Tania Kernaghan | The Lake Bolac Ball was huge | |
| songs about LANG LANG | |||
| 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 |
| songs about MARYBOROUGH | |||
| The Maryborough Miner | Traditional The Larrikins |
I’m a Maryborough miner, and I’m one of the good old time. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930′s | |
| songs about MARYSVILLE | |||
| Marysville | Kevin Welch | Youtube | The winds of heaven gonna do what they will, they just blew away pretty little Marysville |
| This Was My Town (Marysville) | Greg Champion | Youtube | Come all from all around, rebuild this town |
| songs about MILDURA | |||
| Dedication Day | Eric Bogle | August in Mildura, and winter’s on the run, there’s an early taste of springtime, in the warm mid-morning sun | |
| Hungry Years | Weddings Parties Anything | So we’re down and out in Ouyen town, and you know we are Mildura bound | |
| Mildura Wine | Tom Maxwell | Mildura wine, with the beauty of the Murray and the people so kind, I love that Mildura wine | |
| songs about MITTA MITTA | |||
| Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan | Youtube | You don’t call Mitta Mitta "Mitta" |
| songs about NARIEL CREEK | |||
| Nariel Creek | Bobkatz | Well I took my kids fishing and I’ve never had a better time yet | |
| songs about OMEO | |||
| Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | And should you go through Omeo then say hello for me | |
| songs about OUTTRIM | |||
| South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | You miners all at Outtrim, and Wonthaggi by the sea, you farmers all at Tarwin Lower, come drink a toast with me | |
| songs about OUYEN | |||
| Hungry Years | Weddings Parties Anything | So we’re down and out in Ouyen town, and you know we are Mildura bound | |
| songs about PETERBOROUGH | |||
| Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan | Youtube | Peterborough isn’t "Peter" |
| songs about POOWONG | |||
| The Ballad Of The Poowing Magpies | ROOT! | Found a secret hidden pipe to the town’s water supply, irrigation on the sly at the Poowong Magpies | |
| songs about PORT FAIRY | |||
| Australia – The World’s Suburb | TISM | Youtube | Make the middle east far less hairy and none of us would miss Port Fairy |
| songs about PORTLAND | |||
| Working Girls | Redgum | She said she came from Portland, where the ashen skies and leaden ocean left her like the local boys | |
| songs about PORTSEA | |||
| The Mordialloc Road Duplicator | TISM | One day all the way to Portsea it’ll be all big divided freeways | |
| songs about PUCKAPUNYAL | |||
| I Was Only 19 | Redgum John Williamson The Herd |
Youtube | Mum and dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal, it was a long march from Cadets |
| songs about PURA PURA | |||
| Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan | Youtube | You never call Pura Pura "Pura" |
| songs about QUEENSCLIFF | |||
| Sunshower | Little Stevies | Youtube | And we’ll grab an oar each and see if we can paddle to Queenscliff |
| songs about SERVICETON | |||
| Town With No Cheer | Tom Waits | Youtube | The train stopped in Serviceton less and less often, there’s nothing sadder than a town with no cheer |
| songs about SEYMOUR | |||
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | |
| songs about SHEPPARTON | |||
| By The Time I Get To Howlong | Spiderbait | Cause I’m sittin’ down upon a train to Shepparton and back again | |
| We Fly High | BMAC | ||
| songs about SIMPSON | |||
| Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | Skipton ‘cross to Simpson and on down to the sea | |
| songs about SKIPTON | |||
| Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | Skipton ‘cross to Simpson and on down to the sea | |
| songs about STRATFORD | |||
| Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | I’ve been from Stratford to Yarram and all the way back again | |
| songs about STREZELECKI | |||
| Fires Of ’98 | John Warner | I stand here and gaze over Strzelecki’s Range, and turn in my heart half a century of change | |
| songs about SWAN HILL | |||
| Boogie With M’ Baby | John Williamson | I went to this rock dance – in Swan Hill | |
| songs about TARRENGOWER | |||
| The Maryborough Miner | Traditional The Larrikins |
I’m one of the men who cradled on the reef at Tarrangower. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930′s | |
| songs about TARWIN LOWER | |||
| South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | You miners all at Outtrim, and Wonthaggi by the sea, you farmers all at Tarwin Lower, come drink a toast with me | |
| songs about TOOTGAROOK | |||
| The Mordialloc Road Duplicator | TISM | There’ll be turn offs to Tootgarook, Cranbourne, Frankston and Five Ways | |
| songs about TRAFALGAR | |||
| Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | She was a teacher in Trafalgar and she shared her precious kiss | |
| songs about TRARALGON | |||
| Living In Traralgon | Danny McDonald | Youtube | A knack of bad presentation is keeping our name alive |
| songs about VICTORIA | |||
| Town With No Cheer | Tom Waits | Youtube | This tiny Victorian rhubarb kept the watering hole open for sixty five years |
| Victoria | Greg Champion & The Coodabeen Champions | The Victoria boys are hard to beat when they come out to play | |
| Victoria Bitter (She Made Me That Way) | Keith Glass | ||
| Victorian State Election 2002 Song | Scared Weird Little Guys | It’s the Victorian State Election 2002, it’s time to make your mind up and decide who’s right for you | |
| Victoria (There’s A River) | Keith Glass | ||
| When It’s Springtime In Victoria | Les Partell | Youtube | When it’s springtime in Victoria, the state where I was born |
| songs about WALKERVILLE | |||
| Walkerville | Weddings Parties Anything | Youtube | As the morning sun was breaking on the cliffs at Walkerville |
| songs about WANGARATTA | |||
| Australiana | Austen Tayshus | Youtube | So I grabbed a beer, flashed me Wangarratta and went out and joined the party |
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Youtube | |
| Wangaratta Wahine | Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band | Youtube | My Wahine in white Wangaratta, it is not goodbye, we will hula again. Written by Mick Conway and David Fleet |
| songs about WARBURTON | |||
| Stars Of Warburton | Midnight Oil | Youtube | I couldn’t believe the stars of Warburton were waiting for me |
| songs about WERRIBEE | |||
| (I Go To) Werribee | TISM | ||
| Werribee | Sandro | Werribee south, lovers in a valiant, walk past, don’t look in the window | |
| songs about WINCHELSEA | |||
| Out To Winchelsea | Greg Champion | Are you comin’ with me, we’re goin’ out Winchelsea way | |
| songs about WODONGA | |||
| Gotta Root Out Of It | TISM | Youtube | Drops in to tell us that we are one big Albury-Wodonga |
| songs about WONTHAGGI | |||
| South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | You miners all at Outtrim, and Wonthaggi by the sea, you farmers all at Tarwin Lower, come drink a toast with me | |
| Wonthaggi | John Williamson | But I would keep you warm if ever we’re stuck in winter in Wonthaggi | |
| songs about WOOL WOOL | |||
| Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan | Youtube | You don’t call Wool Wool "Wool" |
| songs about YACKANDANDAH | |||
| Sons Of The Country | Colin Buchanan | Yackandandah, Louth and Warrego | |
| songs about YARRAM | |||
| Great Southern Navvy | John Warner | From Dandenong to Yarram in a couple of years or two | |
| Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | I’ve been from Stratford to Yarram and all the way back again | |
| songs about YARRAWONGA | |||
| I’m Going Back To Yarrawonga | Neil McBeath Slim Dusty |
Youtube | I’m going back to Yarrawonga, in Yarrawonga I’ll linger longer |
