South Australia

Songs about South Australia
This page lists a number of South Australian towns & locations, along with songs they have been mentioned in.
Population: 1,815,485. Capital city: Adelaide. Other notable locations: Coober Pedy, Port Augusta, Port Lincoln

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SONG	ARTIST	LISTEN	SAMPLE LYRICS / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
songs about ADELAIDE
Adelaide	Anberlin		Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time, Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene. Although not about Adelaide, the song was named after the first city Anberlin saw on their first tour of Australia
Adelaide	Ben Folds		Learning that there is no hurry, fuss or worry, Adelaide
Adelaide	Ben S
Adelaide	John Cale		I want to go home, I want to go home, I want to go back to Adelaide
Adelaide	Paul Kelly		Down past the hedges all in a row in Adelaide, Adelaide
Adelaide	Rockfords		I’ll take you with me when I go down to Christmas in the summertime, Adelaide
Adelaide	Straight To The Ace		I’m a simple boy from little old Adelaide, let me sing my song to you
Adelaide	Why A Fox		Adelaide stole my heart and kept it safe but it tied a rope around my feet, demanded I stayed
Adelaide City	Systemaddicts		Heading back to Adelaide on a highway
Adelaide On Top	Elapsed Time		All my South Aussies, I want you’s to listen, now I don’t live in Adelaide I realize I miss her
Adelaide South Australia	Sonny Rolfe		They let me off last Friday and I got out on the track, gave me all my money and I’m never coming back, filled the truck with goodies and some whisky in my pack, Adelaide SA’s looking good
Adelaide You’re A Lady	Sandi McMenamin		Adelaide you’re a lady, Adelaide you’re a queen, prettiest of all the cities I’ve ever seen
Australiana	Austen Tayshus		Noosa Heads of course, me mate Adelaide ’em on me
Best Western	Bad Astronaut		Rebellious, reformed then upright, it’s cold in Adelaide tonight
Bradman	Paul Kelly		From Adelaide to Brisbane the runs did not abate, he hit ’em hard, he hit ’em straight
Bus Stop Love	Elapsed Time		Well I’ve got ADD and some THC, have a puff of this home-grown Adelaide greenery
Came From Adelaide	Codabeen Champions Greg Champion		Came from Adelaide man, came from Adelaide man, South Australian made man, drank Woodies lemonade man
Carrington Cabaret	Redgum		In the dirt filled gutters on the cold concrete, at the nightclub end of Hindley Street
Caught In The Act	Redgum		Down to Adelaide, walk around, see just how boring that is
Charades	Cog		Taking covert trips down to Adelaide, making homemade glasses of lemonade
City Of Light	Hilltop Hoods		I’m from the city of light with a sky of vanilla, known as the city of churches home of the serial killer
Coopers Sparkling Ale	Wongawilli		They’re the pride of the city of Adelaide, trust your thirst to the Coopers
Dark Old Street	Bakewell Street		Adelaide, A-Adelaide, the city’s asleep and the church is bare
Eddie’s Castle	Venice Queens		The morning after the night before, never come down, never come down, I remember give me more. Named after the Edinburgh Castle Hotel in Adelaide
From The Gulf To Adelaide	Slim Dusty
The Grace	Molting Vultures		Come on people, come with me, let’s go to the Grace Emily. Named after the Grace Emily Hotel in Adelaide
Grand Junction Road	Don Morrison		It’s a place you go to make a living, it’s not the place you want to live in, you won’t find nothing to ease your load, drivin’ down Grand Junction Road
Hindley Street	Powderfinger		The Hindley Street parade shuffles to my door
Home And Broken Hearted	Cold Chisel		Bought a second-hand Morris for a cheap two-twenty and drove it down to Adelaide
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
In South Australia I Was Born	Greg Champion		In South Australia I was born, hip hooray, Adelaide
Ireland Over Here	Traditional Slim Dusty		And County Cork in Adelaide did appear. Traditional bush ballad
Kensington Road	Don Morrison		If you keep on driving up Kensington Road you’ll end up on a hill, you can look out all over the city from there, where it’s quiet and it’s still
Largs Pier Hotel	Jimmy Barnes		There’s a big wharfy pub by the banks of the bay out in the west side of Adelaide
Last Train To Adelaide	Gerry Joe Weise		She’s got a ticket to ride, last train to Adelaide
Lear Jets Over Kulgera	Redgum		It’s a long hot road from Adelaide to Lincoln when the radiator’s hissing steam
Let’s Stomp Australia Way	Tony Brady		In Adelaide town it’s a gettin’ around, stomp is here to stay
Lights Of Adelaide	Kevin Kitto Singers		A million lights glow over Adelaide
Lost In Adelaide	Spiderbait		I lost you down in Adelaide, I’d like to say I’m looking for you now
Made It To Adelaide	San Clemente Sky
Mad Tight	Bliss N Eso		Adelaide (what what), your style is mad tight
Meeting North Of Adelaide	Kalle Kjemtrup
Moving Out	West Thebarton		Fuck the east man, the west is the best, catch a train to Grange or Port Adelaide
Mr Bad Example	Warren Zevon		Fourteen hours later I was down in Adelaide, looking through the want ads sipping Fosters in the shade
My Adelaide	Miss Monck		Though I’m not one for the sun, my love will never fade for Adelaide
Not The Sunscreen Song	John Safran		Travel as often as you can. Live in New York City once. Live in northern California once. Never live in Adelaide, it’s a hole.
One More Boring Night In Adelaide	Redgum		Well it’s one more boring Thursday night in Adelaide, and it looks like everybody must have died
Paradise	Bad//Dreems		Paradise is an hours drive, North East Road feels like a lifetime
Peter The Cabbie	Redgum		Peter’s a cabby on Adelaide roads and in five o’clock traffic that’s a hard road to hoe
Picking Up The Pieces	Tania Kernaghan		And now your wife’s long gone back home to Adelaide
The Power To Win (Port Adelaide Football Club Song)	Fable Singers		We’ve got the power to win, power to rule, come on Port Adelaide agression
Pride of South Australia (Adelaide Crows Football Club Song)	Fable Singers		We’re the pride of South Australia, we’re the mighty Adelaide Crows
Rowley Park	Molting Vultures		Take a drive down Torrens Road, Take a drive down Torrens Road, I only went for the crashes, Rowley Park, Rowley Park
Search And Loss In Adelaide	David Bridie
Servin’ USA	Redgum		Toxic carpark jungle, west to Adelaide (inside, outside, USA)
The Showman’s Song	Slim Dusty		Oh we made the grade from Adelaide around the southern line, and worked right through Victoria in the summertime
Sitting In A Bar In Adelaide	Skyhooks		I was sitting in a bar in Adelaide, starin’ at the barmaids tits
Stopping All Stations	Hilltop Hoods		The next train to Adelaide will depart from platform one, stopping all stations
The Strut	Venice Queens		’bout to have some fuckers in stitches, Adelaide, a bit of rough and tumble
Tapleys Hill	Pemberton		I’ve got the grandest of goals, I don’t want to live in my dump anymore in this tiny house on Tapleys Hill Road
Target’s Air Conditioner	Baterz		Going into town on the sweaty 181, stand beneath Target air conditioner’s freezing home, I don’t have any money to spend on haberdashery, I’ll just pretend I’m looking for something from my mum. Written about the Target store in Rundle St, Adelaide
Three Sons	John Williamson		Sent the boys off to school to see Adelaide, how other folks live, get a job, learn a trade
Town With No Cheer	Tom Waits		From Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander
Virgin Ground	Redgum		In pucky little offices in Adelaide you count company profits but you’re underpaid
Wanganeen Is So Special	Greg Champion		When we wake up in the morning we’ll be off to Adelaide, we are the umpies for the showdown, Footy Park, Saturday
We Are The Crows	Greg Champion		Hear the roar when we score from the Bay to Semaphore, we are the South Australian Crows
Wright Street Lights	Ryan Martin John
Another Night At Windy Point	Allday		Up at Windy, see the lights are pretty, my dealer isn’t picking up, this night is dying quickly
songs about ADELAIDE – BEULAH PARK
The Luckiest	Ben Folds		Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep, and his wife, she stayed for a couple of days, and passed away. Ben explains in his autobiography that this verse of The Luckiest is based on true events that unfolded while he lived next-door to elderly neighbours at Beluah Park
songs about ADELAIDE – BLACKWOOD
Blackwood Hill	Beccy Cole		And the dreams of little children echo still on Blackwood Hill
songs about ADELAIDE – CHRISTIES BEACH
Christies Beach	Systemaddicts		I had a house in Christies Beach, yeah the ocean was within its reach
songs about ADELAIDE – CLELAND
Cleland	Why A Fox		It seems that Cleland couldn’t keep me safe from everything
songs about ADELAIDE – COROMANDEL VALLEY
Coromandel Valley	Beccy Cole		There’s a house on a hill in Coromandel Valley with a tree out in the back yard that I used to climb
songs about ADELAIDE – EAGLE ON THE HILL
Eagle On The Hill	Rhys Howlett		I’m where the hills meet the sea, I’m kicking autumn leaves in between you and me, I am not lookng east wondering why, I am the blazing sun, I am the endless sky
songs about ADELAIDE – ELIZABETH
Shutting Down Our Town	Jimmy Barnes		This used to be a place where a man could find some work, put together Holdens or a foundry job at worst. Jimmy has stated, “It’s about growing up in Elizabeth and the closing down of the Holden factory where I once worked as a young working class boy in North Adelaide”
songs about ADELAIDE – JUPITER CREEK
Jupiter Creek	Stars		Well I heard there was gold down near old Jupiter Creek, now Darlin’ I swear to God there’s a piece there for me
songs about ADELAIDE – KENSINGTON
Kensington Dark	Cabin Cults
songs about ADELAIDE – NORWOOD
5.0.6.7. Norwood	Stevey Z		5 to the 0 to the 6-7 hood, where you from, Norwood
songs about ADELAIDE – ONKAPARINGA
Be Home Before the Streetlights Go On	Aerial Maps		The Onkaparinga driveways and bedrooms
Onkaparinga River Of Dreams	Ralph Gourlay		From the Mount Lofty Ranges it flows out to the sea, Onkaparinga, river of dreams
songs about ADELAIDE – ROSEWATER
Rosewater Smile	Leader Cheetah
songs about ADELAIDE – SEMAPHORE
Semaphore Girl	Green Circles		You walk both sides of the road, I’ll do what I’m told, you’re my Semaphore girl, Semaphore girl, we can go on your water slide, take a turn on my steam train ride
songs about ADELAIDE – SOMERTON BEACH
Taman Shud	Drones		Why don’t anybody feel like crying for the Somerton somebody with the hazel eyes. Named after the 1948 Taman Shud missings person case where a man was found dead on Somerton Beach
songs about ADELAIDE – WOODVILLE
Woodville	Ben Walter & Friends		The cold north wind is blowing me to Woodville again
songs about ARKAROOLA
Arkaroola	Greg Champion
Arkaroola Mountains	David Fennell
songs about BAROSSA VALLEY
Barossa Valley Wine	Neville Anderson
Barrie From Barossa	Codabeen Champions		Spoken word
songs about CAPE JERVIS
The Sea Dragon Coast	Sandi McMenamin		From Myponga down to Cape Jervis, Parawa through Delamere, hiking the Heysen Trail, voices echoing say ‘come away to the Sea Dragon Coast’
songs about CARRICKALINGA
The Sea Dragon Coast	Sandi McMenamin		Golden beaches of Carrickalinga, forests and vineyards abound
songs about COOBER PEDY
Coober Pedy	David Bridie
Coober Pedy	John Williamson		It’s a long road to Coober Pedy, tryin’ to write a note to you
Coober Pedy	Sunny Cowgirls		He’s in love with the girl behind the bar in Coober Pedy
Coober Pedy Cabana	Col Elliott		At the Coober Pedy Cabana, opals and lager was all they were after
songs about DELAMERE
The Sea Dragon Coast	Sandi McMenamin		From Myponga down to Cape Jervis, Parawa through Delamere, hiking the Heysen Trail, voices echoing say ‘come away to the Sea Dragon Coast’
songs about FLINDERS RANGES
A Thousand Miles Away	Traditional		On the far Barcoo, and the Flinders too, a thousand miles away. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the late 1800’s
On The Flinders	Traditional		Jack was one of the rowdy push, he was just in from the bush, he had come to work upon the Flinders. Traditional bush ballad
songs about GAWLER
Song Of Gawler	Judy Gillett-Ferguson		Now Gawler stands round Murray Street, round Murray Street, built on its industrial base
songs about GOOLWA
Goolwa	Flavenoids		The wind blows your hair, the salty air, in the dunes I long for you down in Goolwa
Goolwa’s The Shit	Scum Of The Surf		You got the local footy club, support their songs, so let your hair down, grab a drink it’s game on, go! Goolwa’s the shit
songs about GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT
Get High, See No One	Smith Street Band		You’re just a voice on the phone, we’re both in our respective homes and between us lies the Great Australian Bight
Girt By Sea	John Williamson		There’s the great Southern Rail way and Southern Cross at night, the Great Ocean Road and the Great Australian Bight
Great Australian Bite	Don Spencer		The great Australian bite, morning noon and night, everybody likes to eat so line up for your favourite treat, get ready for the great Australian bite
A Word To Texas Jack	Slim Dusty		Bearin’ down the stock an’ stations to the Great Australian Bight
songs about INNAMINCKA
Innamincka	Paul Furniss		Instrumental jazz recording
Innamincka Muster	Slim Dusty		Oh they’ve mustered all the cattle on the Innamincka Run
Take Me Back To Innamincka	John Vincent Greg Champion		Take me back to Innamincka, golden city in the sun
songs about KANGAROO ISLAND
Kangaroo Island	Al Mullins & Janine De Lorenzo		From the soundtrack to the TV series A Shared Table
Kangaroo Island	Parralox		Instrumental
Meeting On Kangaroo Island	Kalle Kjemtrup
songs about KI KI
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga	Ted Egan		It’s Lang Lang and it’s Ki Ki, Wangi Wangi and Woy Woy
songs about LAKE EYRE
Australiana	Austen Tayshus		Well Bo says, “Come in starkers, wattle Lake Eyre”
Lake Eyre	Don Harper		Instrumental ambient / classical music
songs about MAITLAND
Caitlin From Maitland	Andy Armstrong
songs about MARREE
Marree Girl	John Williamson		What is it about Marree that makes a girl go bad?
The Marree Line	Ted Egan		For the railway line runs through Marree, star-crossed lovers are doomed to be, forever denied their true destiny by parents who know what is best
songs about MARALINGA
Maralinga	Midnight Oil		I come from a land of wide open spaces, where the world turns around us and we just follow suit
Maralinga (Rainy Land)	Paul Kelly		This is a rainy land, no thunder in our sky, no trees stretching high
Plains Of Maralinga	Alistair Hulett		Out on the plains of Maralinga, what happened there was a bloody disgrace
songs about MURRAY BRIDGE
When The Snow Falls On The Alice	Lee Kernaghan		I’ve seen every lonely roadhouse from Charleville to Murray Bridge
songs about MYPONGA
Myponga Beach	The Fatherhood with Chris Finnen		Remember that time at Myponga Beach, we sat in the car and watched the sea
The Sea Dragon Coast	Sandi McMenamin		From Myponga down to Cape Jervis, Parawa through Delamere, hiking the Heysen Trail, voices echoing say ‘come away to the Sea Dragon Coast’
songs about OODNADATTA
I’ve Been Everywhere	Lucky Starr		I was humpin’ my bluey on the dusty Oodnadatta road
songs about NORMANVILLE
The Sea Dragon Coast	Sandi McMenamin		Rustic charm of old Yankalilla, cafés of Normanville town
songs about PARACHILNA
Keep The Kettle Boiling	Greg Champion		Well I used to be a railway man on the Parachilna line
Prairie Hotel Parachilna	John Williamson		I’m talking about Parachilna, Prarie Hotel Parachilna, where you won’t grow no roses but all the women try
songs about PARAWA
The Sea Dragon Coast	Sandi McMenamin		From Myponga down to Cape Jervis, Parawa through Delamere, hiking the Heysen Trail, voices echoing say ‘come away to the Sea Dragon Coast’
songs about PORT AUGUSTA
El Alamein Blues	Catfish		All the world is sleeping off the day’s El Alamein Blues. El Alamein is an army training base 9km south of Port Augusta
John Wayne Visits Port Augusta	Not Drowning, Waving
Keep The Kettle Boiling	Greg Champion		Four hundred miles from Port Augusta, into the wild unknown
The Last Frontier	Redgum		There’s a corrugated highway leading north from Port Augusta
On The Road To Port Augusta	Greg Champion		Feel the pace start the slow now that I’m on the road to Port Augusta town
Port Augusta	Slim Dusty		Life in Port Augusta, things don’t change
Port Augusta School Of The Air Song	Woden Valley Youth Choir
songs about PORT LINCOLN
Cool Hand Lukin	Paul Kelly		Back in Port Lincoln they were holding their breath, Martinez and Lukin, the only ones left
Diggers Of The ANZAC	John Williamson		Things’ll never be the same in Port Lincoln since the made a movie there
Don’t Say I’m No Good	Paul Kelly		You can write to me at Port Lincoln poste restante
Drinkin’ In Port Lincoln	Cold Chisel		And it feels much better when they get to thinkin’ of the nights ahead when they hit Port Lincoln
Lear Jets Over Kulgera	Redgum		It’s a long hot road from Adelaide to Lincoln when the radiator’s hissing steam
songs about PORT PIRIE
Where Ya Gonna Run To?	Redgum		Enrich the oxide out of Port Pirie
songs about PORT WAKEFILED
Tucker Time	Stirling North and the Serious Lack Of Rainfall		Have you ever seen Slim Dusty and his Travelling Road Show, he was having a hot dog with the lot at the Tucker Time, Port Wakefield Road
songs about RAPID BAY
Return To Rapid Bay	Sandi McMenamin		All of the worries of life drift away when I return to Rapid Bay
The Sea Dragon Coast	Sandi McMenamin		Sheltered under the Rapid Bay jetty the leafy sea dragons dance
songs about SMOKY BAY
Old Smoky Bay	Amos Morris		I yearn for the great Southern ocean that rolls into old Smoky Bay
Smoky Bay	Ian Quinn		I came and went to Smoky Bay
songs about SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Australia	Will Driving West		Chasing clouds in South Australia, trying to get back on track
Bound For South Australia	Traditional		In South Australia I was born, heave away, haul away. Traditional bush ballad
In South Australia I Was Born	Greg Champion		On pie floaters we were raised, and Woody Woodroofe’s lemonade, and we disliked those eastern states, back in South Australia
Ooh-Ahh South Australia	Coodabeen Champions
Adelaide Crows: Pride of South Australia (Football Club Song)	Fable Singers		We’re the pride of South Australia, we’re the mighty Adelaide Crows
Shanty For The Arethusa	Decemberists		We set to sail on the clipper that’s bound for South Australia, the weather’s warm there, the natives are dark and nubile
The Spirit Of South Australia	Sandi McMenamin		Come alive, catch the spirit of South Australia, come and stay, stay awhile
Treat Yo Mama	John Butler Trio		I got a couple of sista’s in South Australia, stopping the uranium from coming up
songs about WALLAROO
Wallaroo	Anthony Classen		Down at Wallaroo, yeah Wallaroo, dancing on the beach at Wallaroo
songs about WAUKARINGA
Waukaringa	Greg Champion		So we’ll pass the jug around and we’ll toast our health together, and then it’s on to Waukaringa we must go
songs about YANKALILLA
The Sea Dragon Coast	Sandi McMenamin		Rustic charm of old Yankalilla, cafés of Normanville town

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