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Songs about Sydney
240 songs reference Sydney, New South Wales in their lyrics or title. Listen via the streaming links below, or explore Sydney on the interactive map.
A Brief History
Waifs
“Now you're living in Sydney in some dingy room in a house full of strangers on Ramsgate Avenue”
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Eric Bogle
“And as our ship sailed into Circular Quay, I looked at the place where me legs used to be”
A New South Wales
The Alarm
“Great is the rape of the fair country, to Botany Bay for my great grandfathers deportation sailed”
Are You Lookin' At Me?
Colin Hay
“From the crackle of the cane, to the frown of a big black snake, from the breakers at Bondi, down to Wallaga Lake”
Australia
The Kinks
“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”
Australia Street
Sticky Fingers
“It was a real sunny day, we were chilling in the land of the Camperdown Park, nobody had a frown”
Back On Country
Troy Cassar-Daley
“Your country might be a family farm North Queensland patch of dirt, or King Street in Newtown where they tucked away the hurt”
Ballad Of Hilton Clifford
Daniel Johns
“I guess Sutherland would be changed a lot, to walk around again, I suppose even in Boyles Pub I couldn’t find a friend”
Blacktown To Bondi
Mental As Anything
“Blacktown to Bondi, surfing on a train, twelve hours till I see my mum and dad again”
Bondi Beach Boogaloo
Gerry Joe Weise
Botany Bay
John Williamson, Traditional, Wild Colonial Boys
“Mind all is your own as you touchesses, or you'll find us in Botany Bay”
Breakfast At Sweethearts
Cold Chisel
“Hey streetsweeper, clear my way, Sweethearts breakfast the best in town”
Cabramatta Sunrise
Backsliders
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs NRL Club
“That’s why we’re Bulldogs, we play like Bulldogs”
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
“In the finest harbour in the world in a cove they're calling Sydney”
Chained To The Middle
Jon English
“Come on down to Sydney town and dance the night away, laugh and sing, do-oo anything, come and blow your next month's pay”
City Of Lights
Grant McFarland
Dan O'Halloran
Paddy McHugh
“He was 30 when I met him and two years on parole, renting a flat in Redfern collecting the dole”
Darlinghurst Road
Noel Watson
Darling It Hurts
Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls
“Darling it hurts to see you down Darlinghurst tonight”
Diamantina Drover
John Williamson, Lee Kernaghan, Redgum
“Sometimes I think I'll settle back in Sydney”
Don’t Go To Sydney
Zimmermen
“Don't go to Sydney baby, don't overreact, I know you think that Melbourne is holding you back”
Down In Blacktown
Gerry Joe Weise
“Go back down, way back down, Blacktown baby”
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”
Eight Days From Sydney
Troy Cassar-Daley
“Eight days from Sydney, I was looking at a man who was looking at the tattoo that I had on my hand”
Eye Of The Tiger
Wests Tigers NRL Club
“And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night, and he's watching us all in the eye of the tiger”
Fabulon
Redgum
“Carry it away from Myer's now requiring of us a loan, how can we live without these things in Cammeray?”
Fast Boat To Sydney
June Carter & Johnny Cash
“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
Gary Shearston, Traditional
“Oh, Frank Gardiner he is caught at last and he lies in Sydney jail.”
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Kev Carmody, Paul Kelly, The Waifs
“Then Vincent Lingiarri boarded an airplane, landed in Sydney, big city of lights”
Girls On The Avenue
Richard Clapton
“Girls on the avenue, they're trying to get you in, strollin' by with a rosebud smile”
God Drinks At The Sando
Whitlams
“Cause God drinks down at the Sandringham these days, since the Shakespeare changed its name”
God's Own Country
Geoff Williams
“Cause they said the Northern Beaches could make a country song, but we'd have to be more rural or it would sound all wrong”
Half Way To Sydney
Dead Ringer Band
Harry Was A Bad Bugger
Tex, Don & Charlie
“That he's buried in a pylon of the new Glebe Island bridge”
Have You Ever Been To See Kings Cross
Frankie Davidson
“Have you ever been to see King's Cross where Sydney-siders meet”
Hot Pie And Tomato Sauce
John Meillon
“Hot pie and tomato sauce, from Perth to Sydney they all endorse”
House Of The Rising Flood
Kevin Bloody Wilson
“They sent volunteers from Redfern to show them how it's done”
I Can't Feel Those Chanis Any Longer
John Williamson
“We've come a long way since Botany Bay and now we're two hundred years old”
If Only We Had Ireland Over Here
Slim Dusty, Traditional
“If the Blarney Stone stood out on Sydney Harbour”
If We Can't Get It Together
You Am I
“Four to seven at Circular Quay, a present in your pocket for the TAB”
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
“I couldn't save my baby, we lived on the first floor, we lived in two rooms”
I've Been Everywhere
Lucky Starr, Scared Weird Little Guys
“Yarra Yarra, Boroondara, Wallangarra, Turramurra”
Ivy Street
Mexican Spitfires
“The girl on Ivy Street, she makes me feel good, she makes me feel neat”
I Wonder What They're Doing (In Sydney Today)
Mick Thomas
Jim Jones At Botany Bay
Gary Shearston, The Bushwackers
“They'll yet regret they sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay”
Ken's Karate Klub
Troubled Romantics
“Brothers, lovers, are you gonna go to Ken's Karate Club, hey”
King Street
John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong
“A new day dawns in the heart of Newtown outside the Coles new world”
Lady Gowrie Lookout
Dan Schaumann
“As we paint our names here at Lady Gowrie Lookout, Georgie and James here at Lady Gowrie Lookout”
Lanes Of Woolloomooloo
John Dengate
“He's a child of the great depression from the lanes of Woolloomooloo”
Larrikin Town
Keith Glass
Last Train Out Of Sydney
David DiMuzio
“You can take a ride through other people's lives on the last train out of Sydney”
Lavender
Go-Betweens
“She's been to Sydney once, no more, they poisoned her water and nailed her door”
Lay That Piston Down
Rolf Harris
“Now there was a young man from Sydney who drank til he ruined his kidney”
Letter To Alan
Cold Chisel
“Round this time a year ago, Gaskill sold his boat, and headed for the Cross to sink a few”
Lights Of Sydney Town
Roaring Jack
“Let her go, let her go, blow boys blow, blow out the lights of Sydney Town”
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”
Manchester
Doug Anthony All Stars
“They haven't got an Opera House, or a Harbour Bridge, they haven't got no Bondi's, they've got no Botany Bays”
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles NRL Club
“Manly Warringah, Manly Warringah, we'll all be marching beside you this year”
Maroubra Bay
Jeannie Lewis
Matilda No More
Slim Dusty & Kasey Chambers
“Saturday night outside a Kings Cross hotel, kids with hard drugs and soft bodies to sell”
Melbourne To Sydney In 18 Hours
The Bushwackers
Merry In Merrylands
Dan Schaumann
“Cross the street, I'm in love, that's why I'm merry in old Merrylands today”
Middle Of The Hill
Josh Pyke
“When I was a kid I grew up in a house on a hill, not the top, not the bottom, but the middle”
Midnight High
Daniel Johns
“The harbour ferries glisten in the Kirribilli sun and I just sit and sigh and listen to a number one”
Miracle (In Marrickville)
John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong
“I found a miracle in Marrickville, I found a prayer for me behind the factories”
Mission Beat
Russell Crowe & Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunt
“Billy got a job working for the Sydney City Mission, driving around everyday picking up the people”
Moreton Bay
Bernard Fanning, Jack Moncur & John Bedggood, John Denver, Traditional
“At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie, at all those settlements I've worked in chains”
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”
Narrabeen
Andrew Kidman, Robbie James
“I'm still here, sundown, the season's turning, colour's on the rise”
Newtown Song
Chasers War On Everything (Andrew Hansen)
“There's a thousand songs I've written and they are all about bloody Newtown”
North Shore Girls Get Off
David Beniuk
“Oh the North Shore girls get off and the Blacktown boys get on”
Northwest Arm
Daniel Johns
“Sutherland's five miles up the serene North West Arm, there's the school and the places I knew”
Notre Dame Victory March
Sydney Swans Football Club
“What thou the odds be great or small, Swans will go in and win overall”
Nutcote
Geoff Williams
“In Nutcote by the harbour, where May's stories unfold.”
Old Sydney Town
The Bushwackers
“You know it's the greatest city, the world's greatest city, the greatest city, old Sydney town”
On The Road
Cold Chisel
“The Duke was howlin' down in Sydney town, and when the Duke's around, there's just one place to be”
Painted Doll
Cold Chisel
“Lookin' down Sydney Harbour in the rain, my pretty baby's slappin' up another vein”
Parramatta Eels
Parramatta Eels NRL Club
“If you want to see how footballs played then come and see the Eels”
Penrith Panthers
Penrith Panthers NRL Club
“Go the mighty Panthers, there's a chance here to be great”
Playing For The Traffic
Malkies
“He was playing for the traffic and the nine to fivers, tooraloo you’re bound for Botany Bay”
Rainbow's Dead End
James Reyne
“Hotel, motel drifters one and all lie like dead men down in rows against the Bondi Beach sea wall”
Road Trip
Kind Of Pluto
“Take the coastal road through Eden cause I'm headed up to Sydney”
Rock 'n' Roll And A Schooner Of Beer
McBodybag
Rockwood
Mexican Spitfires
Rose Bay Ferry
Bernard Bolan
“Every morning at eight twenty-five, down to the Rose Bay wharf I drive”
Rose Of Camperdown
Holly
Shark Island Sydney
Al Mullins & Janine De Lorenzo
“A Shared Table”
Ship My Body Home
Ben Lee
“Coming out of Sydney, country music playing, cursing all of them who stayed in the city”
Shooting Words
Nova & The Experience
“We could move to Newtown and find ourselves bohemian”
Show Boat Kalang
Rex Dallas
“Out on the dock at Circular Quay, I remember then I was just 15, the 1950's, the good old days, so long ago my memory stays”
Siege Of Union Street
Alistair Hulett
“Their mum does what she can to make ends meet, and she's down at the siege of Union Street”
Since Cheryl Went Feral
Jim Haynes
“It took us ages to hitch our way from Pennant Hills up to Byron Bay”
Somewhere In Sydney
Skyhooks, The Skyhooks
“The radio's playin' just as fast as you drive, somewhere in Sydney upon Bellevue Hill”
South Sydney Rabbitohs
South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL Club
“Glory glory to South Sydney, South Sydney marches on”
Stompin' At Maroubra
Little Pattie
“There's a dance that they're doin' down Maroubra way, the surfies and the sandies will make it stay”
Strange Days In Chippendale
Richard Clapton
“I've been standing downtown Central, leaving teardrops on the ground”
Streets Of Paddington
Eureka!
“But they still talk of the good old days on the streets of Paddington”
Summer Hill Road
Executives
“Summer Hill Road with the rain falling down, Summer Hill Road, the circus in town”
Summer In Sydney
Ricky May
Sundays In Sydney
Dave Steel
Surfin' USA
Beach Boys
“Santa Cruz and Trestles (inside, outside, USA), Australia's Narrabeen (inside, outside, USA)”
Sweeney
Slim Dusty
“He was born in Parramatta and he said with humour grim, that he'd like to see the city, 'ere the liquor finished him”
Sydney 2000
John Williamson
“Yeah say that you miss me and put it in the mail, care of Sydney 2000, New South Wales”
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 Bound Train
Michael Meeking
Sydney From A 727
Paul Kelly & The Messengers
“Have you ever seen Sydney from a 727 at night? Sydney shines such a beautiful light”
Sydney Harbour Girls
Bazz & Pilko
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 Water Song
Ian McNamara
Tallulah
Allo Darlin'
“St Kilda, Coolangatta, Bondi Beach and Coogee Bay, I like the sound of their names”
Taylor Square
Weddings Parties Anything
“I just saw somebody down in Taylor Square, looking awful, feeling bad in Taylor Square”
That's The Way To Spell Woolloomooloo
Traditional
“W double O, L double O, M double O, LO, O”
The Boys Of Narrabeen
Quill & Tolhurst
“Let your fury sound, oh, Huey send her down, and bring home the boys of Narrabeen”
The Cicada That Ate Five Dock
John Sammers, Outline
“Cicada, cicada, cicada, cicada that ate Five Dock”
The Cremorne Waltzes
A.H.H.
The Cricketer's Arms
Paddy McHugh & The Goldminers
“Well they met in a pub, it was the Cricketer's Arms, he was a drunk, she worked behind the bar”
The Door
Cold Chisel
“Hostile city, running out the door again, pulled a big escape along Broadway, the man came calling seven times today”
The Fairy King & Queen From Narrabeen
The Wiggles
“King Jock, Queen Jean from Narrabeen, they danced but were rarely seen”
The Family Maiden Aunt
Judy Small
“Cause who do you think it is that gets to take them to the zoo, or ferry them to Manly for a fun day”
The Free Selector's Daughter
Gerry Hallom, Traditional
“Not long ago near Penrith town lived a free selector's daughter”
The Ghost Of Fishers Creek
Darren Coggan
“Frederick Fisher was a man well known out in the colony of Campbelltown, but he shared his land with a lesser man who wanted it for his own”
The Ghost Of Newtown
John Kennedy & The Honeymooners
“And I'm sitting on a headstone in St Stephens cemetery, Newtown, Newtown, do you still remember me?”
The Green Ban Fusiliers
Denis Kevans, Traditional
“In Sydney town they would not lie down, they gave Martin's scabs some cheer”
The Legend Of Barry Kable
Russell Crowe & Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunt
“Well he'd ride with me, spit on me, take me on in Crown Street, he crossed that road like a river”
The Lonely Shore
Geoff Williams
“So I turn around and head back home to Sydney, I see her smile before me all the way”
The Manly Ferry Song
Judy Small
“Riding on the ferry on a Sunday morning, sailing off to Manly for a day of fun”
The Maryborough Miner
Gary Shearston, Traditional, Warren Fahey
“And I wound up my avocation with ten years on Cockatoo”
The Old Pacific Sea
Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries
“Oh I was down by Bondi pier, drinking tubs of ice-cold beer”
The Pitt Street Farmer
John Williamson
“Just use your wit a little bit, yes that's it, I'm a Pitt Street farmer”
The Shores Of Botany Bay
The Bushwackers
“To take a trip on an immigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay”
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”
The Waitress
Waifs
“Everything I want is getting further out of reach like that funky little apartment down on Bondi”
Thou Shalt Not Steal
John Butler Trio, Kev Carmody
“In 1788 down Sydney Cove the first boat people land”
Ticket In Tatts
Weddings Parties Anything
“We walk along the seafront, from Woolloomooloo to Bennelong”
Twelve Hours
Whitlams
“I coudn't see what is was that reminded you to me, so we walked up to King Street for goodbye”
Under A Southern Sky
Beautiful Girls
“The sunrise bleeds into the bay, landed in Sydney, nothing's changed”
Who Can Stand In The Way
Midnight Oil
“I was hanging round off Dobroyd Point when the first fleet chain sailed in”
Woolloomooloo (Herbert Rule)
Steve Mullins
“But I owe a lot to him, cause he taught me how to swim, when he heaved me off the pier at Woolloomooloo”
Woolloomooloo Lair
The Bushwackers
“But I owe a lot to him, cause he taught me how to swim, when he heaved me off the pier at Woolloomooloo”
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”
Yuppietown
Alistair Hulett
“They're driving us out, giving us the old once over, they want to tear the place down and turn it into Yuppietown”
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