Songs about Melbourne

“I can smell it, can you taste it, Frankston station, degradation”

“It wouldn't pay for my girlfriend's designer thong for the Cranbourne High School Year 9 Formal”

“Accidentally Kelly Street, where friends and strangers sometimes meet. Written by bassist Tim O'Connor about Kenny Street, Richmond, which he mistook for Kelly Street.”

“Who's this coming down the carriage towards me? It's one of the Ashburton boys”

“A Shared Table”

“And somewhere west, Port Melbourne lies, and where are you, my Annie?”

“No need for shaving or bedmaking, I've got a $50 a week room in the southern Mallee hotel”

“Caroline Springs, and she floods the fields, cities bitch, high up on four wheels”

“I remember the day I was no more than a boy, working in an oxide plant at the back of North Fitzroy”

“Hey boy that's Balwyn calling, get on the phone and do a bit of stalling”

“Beautiful people, Studio 54 is the only place to dance.”

“Blue Lake, where is it you lie? Hidden, on the north-west side, beneath bitumen, I heard they filled you in”

“It may be a cold wind down in St Kilda but it ain't raining way up here, it's borderline summertime”

“Can any bloke point to a better old joint, than Bourke Street on a Saturday night”

“Boys! We're going down, we're going down to Russell Street”

“When I ain't been to Brunswick for a long long time”

“She struck me as quite nice, she served me coffee once or twice, I fell in love with that Brunswick St girl”

“He came riding on the backbone of some calamity, saying, "These Fitzroy bars, they can't hold me"”

“In 1859 three men left Melbourne town, tramping down a dusty road”

“So I'm leaving Busselton, going back to Melbourne, and you should have seen the smile on my face”

“The sun sets over Carlton, the moonlight floods the streets”

“Back to Melbourne, as you come from Sydney, you feel very superior”

“Side by side we walk along to the end of Gertrude Street”

“Yeah, we're coming home, all you mighty Tigers roar, this is now a place to call your own”

“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”

“Deep in our hearts everyone barracks for Fitzroy, whether we say we barrack for somebody else or not”

“If I were to ever catch a train, I'd catch a train at Dennis.”

“We drive to a house in Preston, we see police arestin' a man with his hand in a bag”

“Don't go to Sydney baby, don't overreact, I know you think that Melbourne is holding you back”

“Carry it away from Myer's now requiring of us a loan, how can we live without these things in Templestowe?”

“Birds sing and sun shines through my window, smiling day and night”

“Bringing down this pretty useless town, it's a useless town”

“When you take a chance down on Young Street, you take your life into your hands”

“Take a walk to Footscray Park, stay out til the sky is dark”

“If you're in my hood you better look twice, getting high all the time, this is Footscray life”

“Take a walk to Footscray Park, stay out til the sky is dark”

“There's a rally in the city if you wanna meet there and I'm running as fast as I can to Footscray Station”

“Four seasons in one day, lying in the depths of your imagination”

“You may as well obey the law, I sentence you to Rowville”

“From St Kilda towards St Kilda West, start my walk of shamelessness”

“From St Kilda to Kings Cross is thirteen hours on a bus”

“From the palm trees of Lower Templestowe to the palm trees of Glenroy, that's Melbourne, that's our Melbourne”

“They prove quite clearly by their rigs that Melbourne girls are colonized”

“Ghost train to Mernda, ghost train to Mernda”

“If I make a fortune I'll come back and spend it in dear old Melbourne town”

“We got the news in Melbourne and all felt pretty sad”

“Good old Collingwood forever, they know how to play the game”

“From Dandenong to Yarram in a couple of years or two”

“And graffiti the Dandenong line”

“Grey skies over Collingwood, ohh, it's a difficult summer's day”

“Hail hail the Pies are here, Collingwood forever, Collingwood forever”

“Let's not forget last night, yeah how we drove along the Yarra”

“Have you heard about the Melbourne mafia, they don't make no sense, they talk another lingo”

“From St Kilda to Altona North is fourteen hours by public transport but worth it to be with you”

“Mistaking tacky sex for sensuality they bought in Toorak Road”

“They laughed at him in Flinders Street in his tailored foreign clothing, without a word of English he set out to build a dream”

“Catching blue trains on Hursty line, pieced by pest and jewel”

“I'll return from the streets of Melbourne, I'll return my love”

“Melbourne Melbourne take my hand, Melbourne Melbourne I'll be your man, if you'd only be my girlfriend and not a city”

“If Dublin Town to Melbourne came to stay”

“Well, when my baby, when my baby looks at me I go to Werribee”

“We're the Demons that no one can lick, lick, lick, and you'll find us there at the final bell”

“I've been to Ettalong, Dandenong, Woodenbong, Ballarat”

“Crouched upon the ocean is the city that I live in”

“All the people in my street, they're all tending to their garden”

“Join in the chorus, North Melbourne's on the ball”

“I killed her in St Kilda, now she'll never make me sad”

“The last house on the left, we're doing nothing, nothing's doing but it's ok”

“Gasoline rainbow in the sky, over the fields where the dead cars lie, last train from Mobiltown”

“I'm high on the hill looking over the bridge to the MCG”

“Come outside now, let's go walk this town”

“They're doin' it down in Melbourne now, stompin' Australia way”

“Now I don't see too many friends from Ringwood anymore, we drifted during high school, that's just the way it goes”

“Tonight the prince is losing his crown, here comes the Lygon Street meltdown”

“Hey yo, Melbourne (what what), your style is mad tight”

“From Darwin to the Dandenongs”

“Moon rises over the match factory, I’m heading north from the river down those narrow Cremorne streets”

“But I met Melba from Melbourne she made my heart yearn, she made my tears flow like wine”

“Thank God Melbourne's big enough to get lost in”

“You’re a lot like the Melbourne sun, just when i think we’re in love, your sky turns from blue to grey”

“How you finding Melbourne, is it all you thought that it would be? I don’t know, leave me alone, I just keep answering politely”

“Walking ’round the rainy city, what a pity there’s things to do at home”

“Melbourne blue to Melbourne green, the prettiest picture you've ever seen”

“Another crash landing but we're still standing and we will survive, Melbourne girls don't cry”

“The land was stripped bare, just nothin' there, so we headed down back to Melbourne town”

“We are the Storm from Melbourne Town, we'll blow the others off the ground”

“Through the window a tree shines from street light, Melbourne summer is cloudy and alright”

“That's who I am, that's why I came to Melbourne Australia”

“Melbourne to Sydney, well it's just shy of 900 k's, in a few short hours, I'll be on my way”

“We're just out doin' the round, toolin' around in Melbourne Town”

“I could hang up my wings, do a good thing in Melbourne Town”

“Melbourne we'll meet outside, we'll put chairs on the grass between houses and laugh”

“Merri, your water flows into the quarry, where bluestone once lay below, but now the gutters are paved with your heart and the hole is filled with clay”

“Don't get off the train at Richmond, the skins want your Doc Martins”

“10.34, Flinders Street Station, I'm lookin' down the tracks”

“When I die put me in a barra, wheel me down to the banks of the Yarra”

“And three years locked him in Melbourne's Pentridge Jail gave him that Ned Kelly brand”

“She drop it low to stay warm, she got nothing on North Melbourne at a party on something strong”

“Nothing beats the, nothing beats the footy at the MCG, no, nothing beats the footy at the G”

“Oh, we're from Tigerland, a fighting fury we're from Tigerland”

“Little boy you’re my pride and joy, the only good thing about old Fitzroy”

“Out in the suburbs, Glen Waverley, baby, is where I'm meant to be”

“You know they took Ned Kelly and they hung him in the Melbourne Gaol”

“Maybe I should send a postcard from Melbourne or leave you alone, alone again”

“At the Redesdale, at the Petersham, at the Esplanade pub”

“Out in the northern suburbs, riding on the trains, Regent to Ruthven, there's something in the names”

“Straight to the city of folded arms, I can’t be bothered to siphon out it’s charms”

“Oh take me down to Young and Jackson's, we'll do a bit of serious drinking”

“It's a shame Mitcham Station wasn't named after Robert, if only they could change one little vowel”

“The shipyards are deserted on the docks of Melbourne town”

“There's a bunch of Frankensteins up on the Frankston line, dead folks scratching their neck-bolts”

“I could seize it onto my line, I was going to hang out at Rushall Station for a while”

“My screwdriver in hand, making aircraft out at Laverton”

“See the Bombers fly up, up, to win the premiership flag”

“There's a full moon tonight over Separation Street, I'm driving down the tramlines avoiding places we could meet”

“We'll all be serving in Queensland, Hobart, Melbourne and Russell Hill (inside, outside, USA)”

“I'm sixteen in Melbourne, I ain't got no girl”

“Cause you can't beat the boys of the Bulldog breed, the team of the mighty west”

“Down by the river where the factories lie and the Westgate stretches across the sky”

“Come rescue me, I'm only twenty minutes from the CBD if you drive at 250, Caroline”

“As I leave best believe I'm shankin', but when I come back boi I'm comin' straight outta Frankston”

“City lights are driving me crazy as I walk the lonely streets of old Fitzroy, how I wish that I was back there in the dreamtime, in the country where there's always peace and quiet”

“And he was stuck there in Melbourne again, he burned the bridges to his baby, she was looking for a new boyfriend”

“Come on lets run, follow the sun, follow Sunbury 97”

“Walking down St Kilda pier I hear your voice in my ear”

“So we step outside into this Melbourne weather”

“St Kilda, Coolangatta, Bondi Beach and Coogee Bay, I like the sound of their names”

“He popped down to Dandenong and just like that, used his powers to heal the cataracts of Sam's mum”

“I got a long road to walk down, to catch a tram to my favourite ground”

“I want a bank and a place to park, I want a drink after dark”

“He walked down Platform Three with a schoolcap on his head, a runny nose and a cut on his knee”

“I'm just another clown kicking around in Melbourne town”

“Been taking a lot of trains lately since the cops busted me”

“For it's all beautifully quiet in Highett, where my daughter and son in law dwell”

“You can cut the ozone layer down by thirds, just don't come from the western suburbs”

“I puddled the clay at Bendigo and chanced my arm at Kew”

“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”

“We're a happy team at Hawthorn, we're the mighty fighting Hawks”

“There'll be turn offs to Tootgarook, Cranbourne, Frankston and Five Ways”

“You were such a cocky, successful winner when we were 16, but now you're just another sad fat prick sitting in the MCG”

“She saw the buskers on a hot summer night and followed them to St Kilda in the rain”

“The twenty-seven minutes of the Sandringham line, the suburbs sliding past”

“He was driving a Bendigo engine, the train was running all right, it was going along as usual, til Sunshine came in sight”

“I'll sing a song of sorrow, a story sad to tell, of men who died on the Westgate Bridge”

“My name is Brody, I'm from Melbourne, Fitzroy Melbourne, Fitzroy Melbourne”

“The rods have got potholes and your car falls apart”

“Out to Preston, I move out of the three oh seven oh”

“Well, he's a village playboy, Toorak Cowboy, yes, he is”

“There'll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo from Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander”

“Melbourne is a tropical London, I met a girl in a tropical London”

“Hey, hey, I see a Melbourne girl on a rusty Malvern Star”

“But give me half an hour and I’ll meet you in the gardens, I’ll probably be waiting under the rotunda if it’s raining”

“Down at VFL Park, VFL Park in the dark”

“We're sitting on a bench not doing a lot, here in Waverley”

“We're the team that never lets you down, we're the only team old Carlton knows”

“Werribee south, lovers in a valiant, walk past, don't look in the window”

“The whole point of the thing is just to stare out of the Werribee train”

“I walked two miles in Melbourne rain, I could have walked ten more”

“Oh how I want to be with St Kilda when the Saints go marching in”

“So let your bedroom be our port in a storm when we’re in Fitzroy”

“A long white car out at Tullamarine”

“And then we came to Melbourne town, we all prepared to slip”

“There's a chill tonight on the Yarra, winter is creeping in, while far away my loved ones wake up in England's spring”