New South Wales (Sydney + suburbs)

Songs about New South Wales

This page lists a number of New South Wales towns & locations, along with songs they have been mentioned in.
Population: 8,130,115. Capital city: Sydney. Other notable locations: Byron Bay, Jindabyne, Tamworth

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SONG	ARTIST	LISTEN	SAMPLE LYRICS / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
songs about SYDNEY
Anonymous From Sydney	Diplomat
Australia	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
Bradman	Paul Kelly & The Messengers		Sydney, 1926, this is the story of a man
A Brief History	Waifs		Now you’re living in Sydney in some dingy room in a house full of strangers on Ramsgate Avenue
A Reason For It All	Eric Bogle		Summer’s smiling on the city, it’s another lovely day in Sydney
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
Comin’ From / Khe Sanh	Adam Brand		The last plane out of Sydney’s almost gone
Diamantina Drover	Redgum John Williamson Lee Kernaghan		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 To Sydney	Paddy McHugh		I’m heading down to Sydney to die
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
Eora	Robbie James		Eora, beneath old Sydney town, lost we all are without them around
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. Originally by Survivor, Eye Of The Tiger is also the Wests Tigers NRL club theme song
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	Traditional		Oh, Frank Gardiner he is caught at last and he lies in Sydney jail. Traditional bush ballad, written about bushranger Frank Gardiner
From Little Things Big Things Grow	Kev Carmody Paul Kelly		Then Vincent Lingiarri boarded an airplane, landed in Sydney, big city of lights
Girl On Fire	INXS		Girl on fire, I felt the heat, from Sydney to London
Ghost Town	Cold Chisel		Waking up in Sydney babylon is what it’s all about
The Green Ban Fusiliers	Traditional Denis Kevans	Oz Folk Song A Day	In Sydney town they would not lie down, they gave Martin’s scabs some cheer
Half Way To Sydney	Dead Ringer Band
Home & Broken Hearted	Cold Chisel		Hiked up to Sydney in the week before Christmas, it was thirty-eight degrees in the shade
Hot Pie And Tomato Sauce	John Meillon		Hot pie and tomato sauce, from Perth to Sydney they all endorse
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
If Only We Had Ireland Over Here	Traditional Slim Dusty		If the Blarney Stone stood out on Sydney Harbour.Traditional bush ballad
Incident On South Dowling	Paul Kelly		I couldn’t save my baby, we lived on the first floor, we lived in two rooms. South Dowling is a street running through Sydney
In The Valley	Midnight Oil		And his wife fled south to Sydney seeking out safe harbour
I Wonder What They’re Doing (In Sydney Today)	Mick Thomas
Khe Sanh	Cold Chisel		You know the last plane out of Sydney’s almost gone
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
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
Letter To Alan	Cold Chisel		Now I’m walking in the dark, like bells our dogs are yelling, all across Centennial Park
Lights Of Sydney Town	Roaring Jack		Let her go, let her go, blow boys blow, blow out the lights of Sydney Town
The Lonely Shore	Geoff Williams		So I turn around and head back home to Sydney, I see her smile before me all the way
A Loveletter From Sydney	Steve Kilbey		Instrumental
Mad Tight	Bliss N Eso		Hey yo, Sydney (what what), your style is mad tight
Manchester	Doug Anthony All Stars		Bad luck Manchester, bad luck son, you put in a good bid, but Sydney won
Melbourne To Sydney In 18 Hours	Bushwackers
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
My City Of Sydney	Tommy Leonetti XL Capris		My city of Sydney I miss the warmth of you, miss the heart of your people
Notre Dame Victory March	Sydney Swans Football Club		What thou the odds be great or small, Swans will go in and win overall
Old Sydney Town	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
O Sydney	Jackie Marshall		O Sydney I’m leaving you for my old home town
O! Sydney I Love You	Rita Schneider		Yoo-hoo Sydney, I love you, yoo-hoo Sydney, I do, I love the smiling sky above you and your sea of sapphire blue
Painted Doll	Cold Chisel		Lookin’ down Sydney Harbour in the rain, my pretty baby’s slappin’ up another vein
Play With Fire	Jon English		Now she gets her kicks in Sydney, not in Knightsbridge anymore
The Pitt Street Farmer	John Williamson		Just use your wit a little bit, yes that’s it, I’m a Pitt Street farmer
Power And The Passion	Midnight Oil		Sydney, nights are warm, daytime telly, blue rinse dawn
River Of Tears	Kev Carmody The Drones		Well there’s a cold rain on the Autumn wind, a brother murdered in Sydney Town
Road Trip	Kind Of Pluto		Take the coastal road through Eden cause I’m headed up to Sydney
Servin’ USA	Redgum		Sydney, Wagga, Brisbane and Boganville (inside, outside, USA)
Shark Island Sydney	Al Mullins & Janine De Lorenzo		from the soundtrack to the TV series 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
Somewhere In Sydney	The Skyhooks		Somewhere in Sydney there’s a lady so pretty
South Sydney Rabbitohs	South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL Club		Glory glory to South Sydney, South Sydney marches on
Streets Of Sydney	Slim Dusty
Summer In Sydney	Ricky May
Sundays In Sydney	Dave Steel
Sydney 2000	John Williamson		Yeah say that you miss me and put it in the mail, care of Sydney 2000, New South Wales
Sydney Barcarolle	The Wiggles		The city, the beach, the surf and the sun, so may places to play
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 By Night	James Morrison		Instrumental
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 Girls	Rose Tattoo		Oh my oh my, makes me wanna cry, cotton brown dresses, Sydney girls, hi
Sydney Harbour	Thomas Newman		Instrumental, from the soundtrack to Finding Nemo
Sydney Harbour Girls	Bazz & Pilko
Sydney Ladies	The Dingoes Jimmy Barnes
Sydneyland	Paul Buckberry
Sydney Or The Bush	Norma O’Hara Murphy Noel Watson
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 Song	Eskimo Joe		Oh man you can’t see, it seems the way of Sydney
Sydney To Newcastle	Middle East		FEATURED!
Sydney Town	Gary Shearston Mexican Spitfires
Sydney Water Song	Ian McNamara
Taylor Square	Weddings Parties Anything		I just saw somebody down in Taylor Square, looking awful, feeling bad in Taylor Square
Tempest	Thornbird		I’m heading out for Sydney tonight
This Is Sydney	Modern Giant		Try as hard as you like but you cannot deny the ocean in Sydney
Thou Shalt Not Steal	Kev Carmody John Butler Trio		In 1788 down Sydney Cove the first boat people land
Too Long	Catfish		We made love in a sky-way car at the Royal Easter Show. The Royal Easter Show is an annual Sydney event
Under A Southern Sky	Beautiful Girls		The sunrise bleeds into the bay, landed in Sydney, nothing’s changed
Virgin Ground	Redgum		Sydney town 1885, sulphur air and blackened skies
Why Sydney?	Dyan Tai		FEATURED!  Why, why Sydney?
songs about SYDNEY – BALMAIN
Guess How Much I Love You	Lucksmiths		From a backyard in Balmain to the post office and back again
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
songs about SYDNEY – BELLEVUE HILL
Somewhere In Sydney	Skyhooks		The radio’s playin’ just as fast as you drive, somewhere in Sydney upon Bellevue Hill
songs about SYDNEY – BELROSE
Newtown (La La La)	Cuthbert & The Nightwalkers		But I’m still back in Belrose, that leafy suburb
songs about SYDNEY – BLACKTOWN
Blacktown To Bondi	Mental As Anything		Blacktown to Bondi, surfing on a train, twelve hours till I see my mum and dad again
Down In Blacktown	Gerry Joe Weise		Go back down, way back down, Blacktown baby
songs about SYDNEY – BONDI
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
Blacktown To Bondi	Mental As Anything		Blacktown to Bondi, surfing on a train, twelve hours till I see my mum and dad again
Bondi	Cog
Bondi	Elliot Weston
Bondi Beach Boogaloo	Gerry Joe Weise
Bondi Sand	Tim Withano		Long haired girls with zinc on their lips, walking on the Bondi sand
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
Marvellous	12th Man		From Bondi in the east to Bunbury in the west
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
The Old Pacific Sea	Barry Crocker Barry Humphries		Oh I was down by Bondi pier, drinking tubs of ice-cold beer
Section 5 (Bus To Bondi)	Midnight Oil		Section 5 (bus To Bondi), push start that car tomorrow
Tallulah	Allo Darlin’		St Kilda, Coolangatta, Bondi Beach and Coogee Bay, I like the sound of their names
The Waitress	Waifs		Everything I want is getting further out of reach like that funky little apartment down on Bondi
Western Waves	Robbie James		From Bondi to Cottesloe, I still hear you from these distant waves
songs about SYDNEY – BOTANY BAY
A New South Wales	The Alarm		Great is the rape of the fair country, to Botany Bay for my great grandfathers deportation sailed
Botany Bay	Traditional John Williamson Wild Colonial Boys		Mind all is your own as you touchesses, or you’ll find us in Botany Bay. Traditional bush ballad
Botany Bay Courtship	Traditional Jenny M Thomas		1830’s traditional bush ballad
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	Traditional Slim Dusty		And Killarney’s lakes flowed into Botany Bay.
Jim Jones At Botany Bay	Bushwackers Gary Shearston		They’ll yet regret they sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the early 1900’s
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
Playing For The Traffic	Malkies		He was playing for the traffic and the nine to fivers, tooraloo you’re bound for Botany Bay
The Shores Of Botany Bay	Bushwackers		To take a trip on an immigrant ship to the shores of Botany Bay. Traditional bush ballad
songs about SYDNEY – BROADWAY
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 Green Ban Fusiliers	Traditional Denis Kevans	Oz Folk Song A Day	Up Broadway to the MBA come the Green Ban Fusiliers
songs about SYDNEY – CABRAMATTA
Cabramatta Sunrise	Backsliders
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Gulgong, Adelong, Billabong, Cabramatta
songs about SYDNEY – CAMMERAY
Fabulon	Redgum		Carry it away from Myer’s now requiring of us a loan, how can we live without these things in Cammeray?. In the studio recording of Fabulon, the Melbourne suburb of Templestow was used, whereas in live recordings the Sydney suburb of Cammeray was substituted
songs about SYDNEY – CAMPERDOWN
Australia Street	Sticky Fingers		It was a real sunny day, we were chilling in the land of the Camperdown Park, nobody had a frown
Rose Of Camperdown	Holly
songs about SYDNEY – CANTERBURY
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs NRL Club		That’s why we’re Bulldogs, we play like Bulldogs
songs about SYDNEY – CARINGBAH
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Toowoomba, Gunnedah, Caringbah, Woolloomooloo
songs about SYDNEY – CASTLE HILL
Moreton Bay	Traditional John Denver Bernard Fanning, Jack Moncur & John Bedggood		At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie, at all those settlements I’ve worked in chains. Traditional ballad written by Frank The Poet
songs about SYDNEY – CHATSWOOD
Chatswood Chase	Gary Honor		Instrumental
Koala Sprint	Midnight Oil		It’s a long way from Chatswood to the top of the gulf
songs about SYDNEY – CHIPPENDALE
Strange Days In Chippendale	Richard Clapton		I’ve been standing downtown Central, leaving teardrops on the ground
songs about SYDNEY – CIRCULAR QUAY
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
Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers	Midnight Oil		The days are wasted drinking at the First & Last Hotel. Refers to a pub that was situated in Circular Quay, Sydney, up until it closed in 1986
If We Can’t Get It Together	You Am I		Four to seven at Circular Quay, a present in your pocket for the TAB
Reckless (Don’t Be So)	Australian Crawl		As the Manly ferry cuts its way to Circular Quay
Rose Bay Ferry	Bernard Bolan		So hold on, be merry, on the Rose Bay ferry, until we get to Circular Quay you’ll see
songs about SYDNEY – COCKATOO ISLAND
The Maryborough Miner	Traditional Gary Shearston The Larrikins		And I wound up my avocation with ten years on Cockatoo . Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930’s
songs about SYDNEY – COLLAROY
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Terrigal, Fingal, Stockinbingal, Collaroy and Narrabeen
songs about SYDNEY – COOGEE
Coogee Bay	DaddyFrisco
The Girl I Met	John Williamson		It was ’71 in Coogee Bay, we cried and gave our hearts away
I Still Call The Commercial Home	John Williamson		The old Coogee Bay
Tallulah	Allo Darlin’		St Kilda, Coolangatta, Bondi Beach and Coogee Bay, I like the sound of their names
songs about SYDNEY – CREMORNE
The Cremorne Waltzes	A.H.H.		Instrumental piano composition dedicated to the visitors of Cremorne, published between 1851 and 1856
songs about SYDNEY – CRONULLA
Cronulla Point	Martin Cilla		Instrumental surf guitar
Cronulla Sharks	Cronulla Sharks NRL Club		Up up Cronulla, the boys in the black, white and blue
songs about SYDNEY – CURL CURL
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga	Ted Egan		You don’t call Curl Curl “Curl”
songs about SYDNEY – DARLINGHURST
Darlinghurst Confidential	Celibate Rifles
Darlinghurst Nights	Go-Betweens		Joe played a cello through those Darlinghurst nights
Darlinghurst Road	Noel Watson
Darling It Hurts	Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls		Darling it hurts to see you down Darlinghurst tonight
Working Girls	Redgum		Laundromat in Darlinghurst, like a fish shop from the past
songs about SYDNEY – DOBROYD POINT
Who Can Stand In The Way	Midnight Oil		I was hanging round off Dobroyd Point when the first fleet chain sailed in
songs about SYDNEY – EMU PLAINS
Moreton Bay	Traditional John Denver Bernard Fanning, Jack Moncur & John Bedggood		I’ve been a prisoner at Port Macquarie, Norfolk Island and Emu Plains. Traditional ballad written by Frank The Poet
songs about SYDNEY – ENGADINE
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Dalveen, Tamborine, Engadine, Jindabyne
songs about SYDNEY – ENMORE
Siege Of Union Street	Alistair Hulett		To Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore and Petersham, calls went out, “workers unite”
songs about SYDNEY – ERSKINEVILLE
Sicilian Born	Graeme Connors		Bought a semi-detached in Erskineville, moved in and paved the lawn
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. Union Street is located in Erskineville
songs about SYDNEY – FIVE DOCK
The Cicada That Ate Five Dock	John Sammers Outline		Cicada, cicada, cicada, cicada that ate Five Dock
songs about SYDNEY – GIRRAWEEN
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Cloncurry, River Murray, Kurri Kurri, Girraween
songs about SYDNEY – GLEBE
Glebe	Belle & The Bone People
Glebe Point Road	Cam MacKellar
Harry Was A Bad Bugger	Tex, Don & Charlie		That he’s buried in a pylon of the new Glebe Island bridge
Lauren From Glebe	Muscles		Lauren from Glebe, you were there from the start
Purple Sneakers	You Am I		Had a scratch only you could itch underneath the Glebe Point Bridge
songs about SYDNEY – GRAYS POINT
Ballad Of Hilton Clifford	Daniel Johns		I first came down to Grays Point in 1935, the son of a south coast railway man, I had teardrops in my eyes
songs about SYDNEY – GYMEA
Everywhere	Daniel Johns		Everywhere, everywhere, I knew every tree, Gymea to the sea
songs about the SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE
Happy Birthday Harbour Bridge	Jim Low		And you’ve watched the Sydney skyline rise, you’ve breathed the air of polluted skies, oh, Sydney Harbour Bridge, happy birthday
Harbour Bridge	Don McGlashan		Oh harbour bridge, why’d you have to be so high, lights across the water, bracelet in the sky
Harbour Bridge	Ian Blakeney		Dad, don’t take the Harbour Tunnel, there’s nothing there to see or do, let’s go across the harbour bridge and appreciate the view
Harbour Bridge Song	Peter Combe		And the Harbour Bridge has a magic spell, a magic spell, a magic spell
I Just Want Some Love	Melanie Horsnell		I take the bus across the Harbour Bridge, down George Street, on the L90
Let It Be Me	Andy White		I’m driving on the Sydney Harbour Bridge on a Friday evening, the stars look closer underneath this magical sky
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
My City Of Sydney	Tommy Leonetti XL Capris		Miss the Opera House lights from the Bridge, and the nights in a quiet Hyde Park
Sydney Harbour Bridge (13 Minute Shit Joke)	Ari Shaffir		Stand-up comedy routine
songs about SYDNEY – HORNSBY
Houndog	Cold Chisel		Ride the line to Hornsby station, find my circus animals again
songs about SYDNEY – HUNTERS HILL
The Green Ban Fusiliers	Traditional Denis Kevans	Oz Folk Song A Day	Moving in for the kill up at Hunters Hill, at beautiful Kelly’s Bush
songs about SYDNEY – HYDE PARK
My City Of Sydney	Tommy Leonetti XL Capris		Miss the Opera House lights from the Bridge, and the nights in a quiet Hyde Park
songs about SYDNEY – KENSINGTON
Ken’s Karate Klub	Troubled Romantics		Brothers, lovers, are you gonna go to Ken’s Karate Club, hey
songs about SYDNEY – KINGS CROSS
Breakfast At Sweethearts	Cold Chisel		Hey streetsweeper, clear my way, Sweethearts breakfast the best in town. Sweethearts Cafe was situated in Kings Cross
At The Piccolo Bar	Don Walker
El Alamein Blues	Catfish
From St Kilda To Kings Cross	Paul Kelly		From St Kilda to Kings Cross is thirteen hours on a bus
Girls On The Avenue	Richard Clapton		Girls on the avenue, they’re trying to get you in, strollin’ by with a rosebud smile
Have You Ever Been To See Kings Cross	Frankie Davidson		Have you ever been to see King’s Cross where Sydney-siders meet
Letter To Alan	Cold Chisel		Round this time a year ago, Gaskill sold his boat, and headed for the Cross to sink a few
Matilda No More	Slim Dusty & Kasey Chambers		Saturday night outside a Kings Cross hotel, kids with hard drugs and soft bodies to sell
Metho Blues	Cold Chisel		Kings Cross is my home, and all night long I roam
My City Of Sydney	Tommy Leonetti XL Capris		Night folks thirsting for fun meeting most everyone, at the Cross as they toss in their merry balloon
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 in Kings Cross
Shadow Boxer	Angels		In the liner notes of the Angels album Wasted Sleepless Nights, John Brewster writes, “it was inspired by seeing someone punching a light pole in Kings Cross late one night who was obviously off their face.”
Working Girls	Redgum		It was a profile in the neon and a Kings Cross doorway lean
songs about SYDNEY – KIRRIBILLI
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Kirribilli, Yeerongpilly, Wollondilly, don’t be silly
Lady Gowrie Lookout	Dan Schaumann		As we paint our names here at Lady Gowrie Lookout, Georgie and James here at Lady Gowrie Lookout
Midnight High	Daniel Johns		The harbour ferries glisten in the Kirribilli sun and I just sit and sigh and listen to a number one
songs about SYDNEY – LAVENDER BAY
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
songs about SYDNEY – LEICHARDT
Norton Street	Raoul Graf
songs about SYDNEY – LILLI PILLI
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga	Ted Egan		You’d look pretty silly calling Lilly Pilli “Lilli”
songs about SYDNEY – MANLY
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 Manly Ferry Song	Judy Small		Riding on the ferry on a Sunday morning, sailing off to Manly for a day of fun
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles NRL Club		Manly Warringah, Manly Warringah, we’ll all be marching beside you this year
Reckless (Don’t Be So)	Australian Crawl		As the Manly ferry cuts its way to Circular Quay
songs about SYDNEY – MAROUBRA
Maroubra Bay	Jeannie Lewis
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
songs about SYDNEY – MARRICKVILLE
Miracle (In Marrickville)	John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong		I found a miracle in Marrickville, I found a prayer for me behind the factories
River Of Tears	Kev Carmody The Drones		Shot him dead in his Marrickville bed
songs about SYDNEY – MERRYLANDS
Merry In Merrylands	Dan Schaumann		Cross the street, I’m in love, that’s why I’m merry in old Merrylands today
songs about SYDNEY – MILPERRA
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Canberra, Milperra, Unanderra, Captain’s Flat
songs about SYDNEY – NARRABEEN
The Boys Of Narrabeen	Quill & Tolhurst		Let your fury sound, oh, Huey send her down, and bring home the boys of Narrabeen
The Fairy King & Queen From Narrabeen	The Wiggles		King Jock, Queen Jean from Narrabeen, they danced but were rarely seen
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Terrigal, Fingal, Stockinbingal, Collaroy and Narrabeen
Narrabeen	Andrew Kidman		I’m still here, sundown, the season’s turning, colour’s on the rise
Narrabeen	Robbie James		Narrabeen, northern beaches spindrift in her eyes, she shivers, when she climbs aboard the ocean waves
Surfin’ USA	Beach Boys		Santa Cruz and Trestles (inside, outside, USA), Australia’s Narrabeen (inside, outside, USA)
songs about SYDNEY – NEUTRAL BAY
Nutcote	Geoff Williams		In Nutcote by the harbour, where May’s stories unfold. Nutcote is an historical house in Neutral Bay where author & illustrator May Gibbs used to reside
songs about SYDNEY – NEWTOWN
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
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?
God Drinks At The Sando	Whitlams		Cause God drinks down at the Sandringham these days, since the Shakespeare changed its name. The Sandringham (Sando) was a pub situated in Newtown
King Street	John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong		A new day dawns in the heart of Newtown outside the Coles new world
Newtown (La La La)	Cuthbert & The Nightwalkers		I wish I moved to Newtown with my three friends
Newtown Dreaming	Mixed Relations
Newtown Song	Chasers War On Everything (Andrew Hansen)		There’s a thousand songs I’ve written and they are all about bloody Newtown. Written as a parody of The Whitlams lead singer, Tim Friedman, suggesting he obsesses about Newtown in his songwriting
Rock ‘n’ Roll And A Schooner Of Beer	McBodybag
Shooting Words	Nova & The Experience		We could move to Newtown and find ourselves bohemian
Siege Of Union Street	Alistair Hulett		To Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore and Petersham, calls went out, “workers unite”
Twelve Hours	Whitlams		I coudn’t see what is was that reminded you to me, so we walked up to King Street for goodbye
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
songs about SYDNEY – NORTHERN BEACHES
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
songs about SYDNEY – NORTH SHORE
North Shore Girls Get Off	David Beniuk		Oh the North Shore girls get off and the Blacktown boys get on
Somewhere In Sydney	Skyhooks		So much truth and so much hype, I get anonymous letters from the North Shore
songs about the SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
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
My City Of Sydney	Tommy Leonetti XL Capris		Miss the Opera House lights from the Bridge, and the nights in a quiet Hyde Park
songs about SYDNEY – PADDINGTON
Oxford Street	Dorian Mode
The Paddo Sharps	Celibate Rifles
Streets Of Paddington	Eureka!		But they still talk of the good old days on the streets of Paddington
songs about SYDNEY – PALM BEACH
Deep Water	Richard Clapton		Sittin’ out on the Palm Beach road, I’m so drunk and the car won’t go
songs about SYDNEY – PARRAMATTA
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Parramatta, Wangaratta, Coolangatta, what’s it matter?
Parramatta Eels	Parramatta Eels NRL Club		If you want to see how footballs played then come and see the Eels
Parramatta Gaol 1843	Redgum		A hostage of Britannia’s rule marked to be a soldier’s wife, twenty years of convict life in Parramatta Gaol
Parramatta Hotrod Man	Whiteliners		I got the keys in my hand, I’m a Parramatta hotrod man
Parramatta Road	XL Capris		Are you out there somewhere on Parramatta Road?
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
Tomorrow	Cold Chisel		Rivers of light, a million souls, I’m three days out of Parramatta jail
songs about SYDNEY – PENNANT HILLS
Since Cheryl Went Feral	Jim Haynes		It took us ages to hitch our way from Pennant Hills up to Byron Bay
songs about SYDNEY – PENRITH
The Free Selector’s Daughter	Traditional Gerry Hallom		Not long ago near Penrith town lived a free selector’s daughter. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1870’s
Penrith Chicks	Art Rush		She ain’t trash, cause trash gets picked up unlike Penrith chicks
Penrith Panthers	Penrith Panthers NRL Club		Go the mighty Panthers, there’s a chance here to be great
songs about SYDNEY – PETERSHAM
Siege Of Union Street	Alistair Hulett		To Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore and Petersham, calls went out, “workers unite”
songs about SYDNEY – RANDWICK
Randwick Bells	Paul Kelly & The Messengers Jimmy Little		Randwick bells are ringing, must be Saturday
songs about SYDNEY – REDFERN
House Of The Rising Flood	Kevin Bloody Wilson		They sent volunteers from Redfern to show them how it’s done
Ivy Street	Mexican Spitfires		The girl on Ivy Street, she makes me feel good, she makes me feel neat
Strange Days In Chippendale	Richard Clapton		I’ve been shuffling down the Redfern streets, backyards without a lawn
Warakurna	Midnight Oil		There is enough for everyone, in Redfern as there is in Alice
songs about SYDNEY – THE ROCKS
The Green Ban Fusiliers	Traditional Denis Kevans	Oz Folk Song A Day	They made a stand for our sunny land at the Rocks and Woolloomooloo
songs about SYDNEY – ROSE BAY
Girls On The Avenue	Richard Clapton		Girls on the avenue, they’re tryin’ to get you in, strollin’ by with their rosebud smiles. Richard Clapton has stated the song is about three girls who lived on The Avenue in Rose Bay, Sydney
Rose Bay Ferry	Bernard Bolan		Every morning at eight twenty-five, down to the Rose Bay wharf I drive
songs about SYDNEY – STANMORE
The Battle Of Stanmore	Died Pretty
Siege Of Union Street	Alistair Hulett		To Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore and Petersham, calls went out, “workers unite”
songs about SYDNEY – ST GEORGE
Bradman	Paul Kelly		St George took a gamble, played him in first grade
songs about SYDNEY – ST PETERS
Duncan	Slim Dusty		We drink at the Town and Country where the atmosphere is great. The Town and Country is a hotel in St Peters, Sydney
songs about SYDNEY – STRATHFIELD
Murder City Nights	Radio Birdman		Cruising down Woodward gotta find me some action. Woodward Ave is located in Strathfield
Rockwood	Mexican Spitfires
songs about SYDNEY – STRAWBERRY HILLS
Strawberry Hills Forever	John Kennedy		Strawberry Hills forever, let me take you down
songs about SYDNEY – SUMMER HILL
Summer Hill Road	Executives		Summer Hill Road with the rain falling down, Summer Hill Road, the circus in town
songs about SYDNEY – SURRY HILLS
The Cricketer’s Arms	Paddy McHugh & The Goldminers	Sonic Hits	Well they met in a pub, it was the Cricketer’s Arms, he was a drunk, she worked behind the bar
Crown St	Women In Docs		It’s ok, she’s fine, she found love on Crown Street
songs about SYDNEY – SUTHERLAND
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
Northwest Arm	Daniel Johns		Sutherland’s five miles up the serene North West Arm, there’s the school and the places I knew
songs about SYDNEY – TAMARAMA
Tamarama Doorslammer	Killers On The Loose
songs about SYDNEY – TERRY HILLS
Newtown (La La La)	Cuthbert & The Nightwalkers		And do you know where we’re gonna go, Terry Hills, the place I wanna be, Terry Hills
songs about SYDNEY – TOONGABBIE
Moreton Bay	Traditional John Denver Bernard Fanning, Jack Moncur & John Bedggood		At Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie, at all those settlements I’ve worked in chains. Traditional ballad written by Frank The Poet
songs about SYDNEY – TURRAMURRA
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Yarra Yarra, Boroondara, Wallangarra, Turramurra
songs about SYDNEY – WARRINGAH
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles NRL Club		Manly Warringah, Manly Warringah, we’ll all be marching beside you this year
songs about SYDNEY – WARWICK FARM
Harry Was A Bad Bugger	Tex, Don & Charlie		I found him in a bottle shop not too far from Warwick Farm
songs about SYDNEY – WEDDING CAKE ISLAND
Wedding Cake Island	Midnight Oil		Instrumental
songs about SYDNEY – WHITE BAY
The White Bay Paper Seller	Judy Small		She sells the daily papers on the corner at White Bay
songs about SYDNEY – WOOLLOOMOOLOO
The Green Ban Fusiliers	Traditional Denis Kevans	Oz Folk Song A Day	They made a stand for our sunny land at the Rocks and Woolloomooloo
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		Toowoomba, Gunnedah, Caringbah, Woolloomooloo
Lanes Of Woolloomooloo	John Dengate		He’s a child of the great depression from the lanes of Woolloomooloo
My City Of Sydney	Tommy Leonetti XL Capris		That little church steeple in Woolloomooloo
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. Traditional bush ballad
Numbers Fall	Cold Chisel		Walkin’ down Forbes Street, early hours of Woolloomooloo
Prisoners Of Woolloomooloo	Glenn Gowan
Ruby	Catfish		Ruby’s lookin’ all over the water, Paris end of Woolloomooloo
That’s The Way To Spell Woolloomooloo	Traditional		W double O, L double O, M double O, LO, O
Ticket In Tatts	Weddings Parties Anything		We walk along the seafront, from Woolloomooloo to Bennelong
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. Traditional bush ballad
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	Bushwackers		But I owe a lot to him, cause he taught me how to swim, when he heaved me off the pier at Woolloomooloo
Woolloomooloo Sunset	David McCormack & The Polaroids

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