Western Australia
Songs about Western Australia
This page lists a number of West Australian towns & locations, along with songs they have been mentioned in.
Population: 2,163,200. Capital city: Perth. Other notable locations: Broome, Fremantle, Kalgoorlie, Nullarbor
| SONG | ARTIST | LISTEN | SAMPLE LYRICS / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| songs about PERTH | |||
| Bridal Train | Waifs | Youtube | The bridal train leaves from Perth station |
| The Catalpa | Traditional Real McKenzies |
Youtube | So come all you screw wardens and gaolers, remember the Perth Regatta Day |
| Hot Pie And Tomato Sauce | John Meillon | Hot pie and tomato sauce, from Perth to Sydney they all endorse | |
| I Love Perth | Pavement | Youtube | A groovy scene in Australia, I will move, take my surfboard, maybe I’ll groove |
| I’ve Been Everywhere | Scared Weird Little Guys | Wallabilla, Boggabilla, Cumbarilla… Perth | |
| Mad Tight | Bliss N Eso | Youtube | Hey yo, Perth (what what), your style is mad tight |
| North Perth | Richard Easton | ||
| Perth | Richard Easton | I say look around, come on Perth is such a pretty town | |
| Perth City | Charlie Lankester & Friends | Wind was howling on Scarborough Beach, but you was outa reach | |
| Servin’ USA | Redgum | Youtube | If everybody in Australia, Perth to Byron Bay, got on a jumbo, to California |
| Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town | Panda Band | Youtube | We got pretty neon veins and streets straight and wide, all the surfers look the same and all the suburbs go for miles |
| South Perth | Bernie Hayes | ||
| Stuck In Boring Perth City | Jeff Strong | Stuck in boring Perth city, living next to a swamp | |
| We’re Flying High | West Coast Eagles Football Club | Youtube | We’re the Eagles, West Coast Eagles, and we’re here to show you why |
| songs about PERTH – APPLECROSS | |||
| Applecross Wing Commander | You Am I | Youtube | Applecross is not directly mentioned in the lyrics, but Tim Rogers went to primary school in Applecross |
| songs about PERTH – COTTESLOE | |||
| Western Waves | Robert James | From Bondi to Cottesloe, I still hear you from these distant waves | |
| songs about ALBANY | |||
| Sail The Nullarbor | John Williamson | Youtube | Well I saw the colour changes from Albany to Broome |
| A Brief History | Waifs | Youtube | Headed off from Broome, travelled through the Kimberley |
| songs about BROOME | |||
| Australia – The World’s Suburb | TISM | Youtube | Put all of Israel east of Broome, double the size, we’ve got the room |
| Back To Broome | Ted Egan | I’m taking you back to Broome today, what’ll we do when we get to Broome? | |
| The Drover’s Ballad | Elton John | Youtube | Oh his legend rode the winds from Broome to Darwin. From the soundtrack to the movie, Australia |
| Good Light In Broome | Neil Murray | Youtube | I said, ‘Really, what are you gonna do?’ He smiled and said, ‘There’s good light in Broome’ |
| Sail The Nullarbor | John Williamson | Youtube | Well I saw the colour changes from Albany to Broome |
| Take It In | Waifs | Youtube | In her mind she’s still splashing round down on Cable Beach. Cable Beach is a beach in Broome |
| Welcome All To Broome | John Williamson | Youtube | A few days here I must presume to know enough about life in Broome |
| songs about BUNBURY | |||
| Marvelous | 12th Man | Youtube | From Bondi in the east to Bunbury in the west |
| songs about BUSSELTON | |||
| Busselton To Melbourne | Meg O’Riley | Triple J Unearthed | So I’m leaving Bussellton, going back to Melbourne, and you should have seen the smile on my face |
| Sons Of The Country | Colin Buchanan | You’re from Come By Chance, Busselton and Crookwell | |
| songs about COCKLEBIDDY | |||
| Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan | Youtube | Cocklebiddy isn’t "Cockle" |
| songs about COOLGARDIE | |||
| An Aussie Bush Christmas | Maurie Fields | The Coolgardie safe’s just loaded with beer, enough liquid amber to last til new year | |
| Red Sand | Cold Chisel | Youtube | Way out back of the Coolgardie, round the turn of the century, two riders came out of the west, they were lookin’ for the colour of gold |
| songs about DANDARAGAN | |||
| Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Greg Champion, Jim Haynes & Ted Egan | Youtube | Dandaragan isn’t "Dan" |
| songs about DERBY | |||
| A Brief History | Waifs | Youtube | Travelled through the Kimberley, Derby, Fitzroy, a night in Halls Creek |
| songs about FITZROY | |||
| A Brief History | Waifs | Youtube | Travelled through the Kimberley, Derby, Fitzroy, a night in Halls Creek |
| The Drover’s Boy | Ted Egan John Williamson |
Youtube | They drank their rum with the stranger who’d come from the Kimberley run, Fitzroy |
| Fitzroy Crossing | Warumpi Band | Youtube | Well you’re ever going back to Fitzroy Crossing |
| The Maryborough Miner | Traditional The Larrikins |
I came to the Fitzroy River all with my Bendigo rig. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930′s | |
| This Big Old Car | Cold Chisel | Youtube | Take us back across to Katherine to the Fitzroy River sands |
| Vegie Bill | John Williamson | I’ll send him a card from the Fitzroy, he’ll show it around the Glengarry | |
| songs about FREMANTLE | |||
| Bridal Train | Waifs | Youtube | Waited there in the Freo rain to climb upon the bridal train |
| The Catalpa | Traditional Real McKenzies |
Youtube | But the Yankee she tacked into Fremantle, and took the best prize of the lot |
| Dockers Anthem | Fremantle Dockers Football Club | Youtube | We’re the rollers, we’re the rockers, we’re the mighty Freo Dockers |
| Fremantle Cafe | Sonny Rolfe | In the crowded cafe, freezing outside, nowhere to sit | |
| Fremantle Harbour | Al Mullins & Janine De Lorenzo | From the soundtrack to the TV series A Shared Table | |
| Ireland Over Here | Traditional | If you heard the Shannon bells in old Fremantle . Traditional bush ballad | |
| Under The Sun | Paul Kelly | Leaving South Fremantle in a Falcon panel van | |
| songs about GERALDTON | |||
| G’day G’day | Slim Dusty | Youtube | It’s a greeting that you’ll hear across Australia, from Geraldton to Goulburn, Gundagai |
| That Changes Everything | Adam Brand | Said I know a cray boat captain outa Geraldton, and I been thinkin’ I’d go down and work a spell | |
| songs about HALLS CREEK | |||
| A Brief History | Waifs | Youtube | Travelled through the Kimberley, Derby, Fitzroy, a night in Halls Creek |
| songs about JERDACUTTUP | |||
| Jerdacuttup Man | Triffids | Youtube | Old and lonely, dirty and cold, I’m a Jerdacuttup man |
| songs about KALGOORLIE | |||
| Kalgoorlie | Kevin Bloody Wilson | I’m from a place called Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, you’ve heard of Kalgoorlie? Jeez there’s some people live there never f*cking heard of the joint themselves!. Spoken word comedy routine from the Live In London album | |
| Kalgoorlie | Tim Rogers & The Temperance Union | And I’ll get what I left behind, and she’ll understand me in Kalgoorlie | |
| Kalgoorlie Girl | djangle | My friends all say I’m crazy to love a girl like that, they tell me that she’s been well used, guess that’s a fact, she’s my Kalgoorlie girl | |
| Kalgoorlie Love Songs (ALBUM) | Kevin Bloody Wilson | 2002 comedy album, named after Kalgoorlie | |
| The Kalgoorlie Mine | Richard Leschen | I told him to move on, make tracks and then head on, straight to the Kalgoorlie Mine | |
| The Kalgoorlie Two-Up School Song | Kelly Newton-Wordsworth | ||
| King Of Kalgoorlie | Slim Dusty | Youtube | |
| She’s A Good ‘N | Kevin Bloody Wilson | Youtube | They called the well-hung young goat-fucker from Kalgoorlie |
| songs about KIMBERLEY | |||
| Bow River | Cold Chisel Ian Moss Troy Cassar-Daley |
Youtube | First thing you know I’ll be back in Bow River again. As explained on the Cold Chisel website, Bow River is a small outpost between Kununurra and Hall’s Creek (in the Kimberley region) |
| A Brief History | Waifs | Youtube | Headed off from Broome, travelled through the Kimberley |
| The Drover’s Boy | Ted Egan John Williamson |
Youtube | They drank their rum with the stranger who’d come from the Kimberley run, Fitzroy |
| Edge Of The Kimberley | Colin Buchanan | A couple of hours and you’re going to be on the edge of the Kimberley | |
| Kimberley | John Butler | Youtube | You see Kimberly was special, a rare and wild soul, nearly every man who met her, their hearts she always stole |
| Kimberley Moon | James Blundell | ||
| The Prettiest Girl In The Kimberley | John Williamson | For one of their tribe belonged to me, the prettiest girl in the Kimberley | |
| Vegie Bill | John Williamson | If you’ve ever been to the Kimberley, just like old Vegie Bill | |
| songs about KOORDA | |||
| Old Koorda Town | Alex Watt & Roger Corbett | A part of me still planted there, waiting for rain in the dusty air, old Koorda Town I know I just can’t stay | |
| songs about KUNUNNURA | |||
| A Brief History | Waifs | Youtube | Wyndham, Kunnunrra, Darwin we stayed for a while |
| She’ll Be Right | Rolf Harris | Then I recovered it covered up in Kununurra frog spawn and couldn’t get the thing to work | |
| Vegie Bill | John Williamson | So I’m goin’ up there for the old bloke, Kununnura, to see his mate | |
| songs about MEEKATHARRA | |||
| The Girls Of Meekatharra | Ted Egan | Meeka girls are terrific girls, Meeka girls are all good sports | |
| Living Next Door To Alan | Kevin Bloody Wilson | Youtube | They came down from Meekatharra in a burnt out blue FJ |
| songs about NORSEMAN | |||
| Window Down | Alex Watt | Heading out to Norseman ‘cross the Nullarbor, lookin’ like the sky was about to pour | |
| songs about NULLARBOR | |||
| Across The Nullarbor | Charles Jenkins | Youtube | I somehow found myself across the Nullarbor |
| Australiana | Austen Tayshus | Youtube | He said "Nullarbors me to tears, leave him at home" |
| Humpin’ My Bluey | John Williamson | From WA along the Nullarbor and north to the black soil plains | |
| Nullarbor Song | Kasey Chambers | Youtube | When the fire burns out here it’s brighter than the city lights |
| On The Nullarbor | Charlie Boyter | ||
| Sail The Nullarbor | John Williamson | Youtube | Well I took my little kelpie and I sailed the Nullarbor |
| She’ll Be Right | Rolf Harris | See I just got back from the Nullarbor Plain and me camera has had the sword | |
| Singing In The Rain | John Williamson | Out here in the Nullarbor singin’ in the rain | |
| Ted | Redgum | As a navvy on the line in Nullarbor, the Depression left its scars | |
| This Train I’m On | Greg Champion | Just take me north to Alice or across the Nullarbor | |
| Western Waves | Robert James | I can still see you there, across the Nullarbor to the western waves | |
| Window Down | Alex Watt | Heading out to Norseman ‘cross the Nullarbor, lookin’ like the sky was about to pour |
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| songs about ROEBUCK BAY | |||
| Red Sand | Cold Chisel | Youtube | Passed him on to a pearl lugger that was Java bound outa Roebuck Bay |
| songs about SWAN VALLEY | |||
| Sail The Nullarbor | John Williamson | Youtube | And through the Swan Valley there’s banksias |
| songs about WALKAWAY | |||
| Sally | Sonny Rolfe | About the life of a female convict in Walkaway, a WA town near Geraldton | |
| songs about WARAKURNA | |||
| Warakurna | Midnight Oil | Youtube | Warakurna, cars will roll, don’t drink by the water hole |
| songs about WESTERN AUSTRALIA | |||
| The Catalpa | Traditional Real McKenzies |
Youtube | She sailed into Western Australia, and took six poor Fenians away |
| Fisherman’s Daughter | Waifs | Youtube | I’m just your regular West Australian fisherman’s daughter |
| songs about WHYNDHAM | |||
| A Brief History | Waifs | Youtube | Wyndham, Kunnunrra, Darwin we stayed for a while |
| songs about WITTENOOM | |||
| Blue Sky Mine | Midnight Oil | Youtube | Protest song about the mining of blue asbestos in Wittenoom |
| 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 | |
| Sail The Nullarbor | John Williamson | Youtube | And I saw the rusty Hammersley’s from a dusty Wittenoom |