Victoria
Songs about Victoria
This page lists a number of Victorian towns & locations, along with songs they have been mentioned in.
Population: 6,613,700. Capital city: Melbourne. Other notable locations: Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong
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songs about MELBOURNE | |||
A Lazy Lunch In Melbourne | Al Mullins & Janine De Lorenzo | From the soundtrack to the TV series A Shared Table | |
All Torn Down | Living End | There is no direct mention of Melbourne in the song but the video clip depicts images of the city | |
Autumn Leaves | Huxton Creepers | The video clip was filmed partly in the Royal Botanic Gardens | |
The Beautiful Look City Today | Gersey | ||
Beautiful People | Australian Crawl | Beautiful people, Studio 54 is the only place to dance. Studio 54 is a night club in Melbourne. | |
Bourke Street On Saturday Night | Traditional | Can any bloke point to a better old joint, than Bourke Street on a Saturday night. Written in 1918 by P.C. Cole | |
(Boys!) What Did The Detectives Say? | Sports Celibate Rifles |
Boys! We’re going down, we’re going down to Russell Street | |
The Boy Who Lost His Jocks On Flinders Street Station | Painters & Dockers | He walked down Platform Three with a schoolcap on his head, a runny nose and a cut on his knee | |
Burke And Wills And Me | Masters Apprentices | In 1859 three men left Melbourne town, tramping down a dusty road | |
Busselton To Melbourne | Meg O’Riley | So I’m leaving Busselton, going back to Melbourne, and you should have seen the smile on my face | |
Caught In The Act | Redgum | Back to Melbourne, as you come from Sydney, you feel very superior | |
Christmas In Melbourne | Broderick Smith Graeme Connors |
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Crazy Crazy Melbourne | Wall Of Voodoo | ||
The Crowd | Cat Empire | I’m just another clown kicking around in Melbourne town | |
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 | |
Four Seasons In One Day | Crowded House | Four seasons in one day, lying in the depths of your imagination. References a common Melbourne phrase used to refer to the city’s unstable weather conditions | |
From The… To The… | Scared Weird Little Guys | From the palm trees of Lower Templestowe to the palm trees of Glenroy, that’s Melbourne, that’s our Melbourne | |
Getting Colonized | Traditional | They prove quite clearly by their rigs that Melbourne girls are colonized. Traditonal bush ballad | |
Goodbye Melbourne Town | Traditional Slim Dusty |
If I make a fortune I’ll come back and spend it in dear old Melbourne town. Traditional bush ballad written by Leonard Nelson in 1934 | |
Goodbye, Phar Lap, Goodbye | Traditional | We got the news in Melbourne and all felt pretty sad. Traditional bush ballad from 1932 | |
Have You Heard About The Melbourne Mafia | Dave Graney | Have you heard about the Melbourne mafia, they don’t make no sense, they talk another lingo | |
Highway 31 | Johnny Chester | Johnny has stated he wrote this song after noticing signs for Highway 31 heading out of Melbourne on his way to Sydney | |
The History Of Western Civilisation | TISM | You can cut the ozone layer down by thirds, just don’t come from the western suburbs | |
How Many Times | Judy Small | They laughed at him in Flinders Street in his tailored foreign clothing, without a word of English he set out to build a dream | |
Hoochie Gucci Fiorucci Mama | Australian Crawl | Mistaking tacky sex for sensuality they bought in Toorak Road | |
Hursty | Bias B | Catching blue trains on Hursty line, pieced by pest and jewel | |
I Dream Of Spring | k.d. lang | I’ll return from the streets of Melbourne, I’ll return my love | |
If Melbourne Was A Lady | Giles Field | Melbourne Melbourne take my hand, Melbourne Melbourne I’ll be your man, if you’d only be my girlfriend and not a city | |
Ireland Over Here | Traditional Slim Dusty |
If Dublin Town to Melbourne came to stay. Traditional bush ballad | |
It’s A Grand Old Flag | Melbourne Demons Football Club | We’re the Demons that no one can lick, lick, lick, and you’ll find us there at the final bell | |
January Rain | Hunters & Collectors | Crouched upon the ocean is the city that I live in | |
John Cain Avenue | My Friend The Chocolate Cake | All the people in my street, they’re all tending to their garden | |
Last House On The Left | Sports | The last house on the left, we’re doing nothing, nothing’s doing but it’s ok | |
Last Saturday Night | Chris Wilson | ||
Leaps And Bounds | Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls | I’m high on the hill looking over the bridge to the MCG | |
Let’s Go Walk This Town | My Friend The Chocolate Cake | Come outside now, let’s go walk this town | |
Let’s Stomp Australia Way | Tony Brady | They’re doin’ it down in Melbourne now, stompin’ Australia way | |
Mad Tight | Bliss N Eso | Hey yo, Melbourne (what what), your style is mad tight | |
Melba From Melbourne | Marty Robbins | But I met Melba from Melbourne she made my heart yearn, she made my tears flow like wine | |
Melbourne | Alexander Duncan | Thank God Melbourne’s big enough to get lost in | |
Melbourne | Alice Skye | You’re a lot like the Melbourne sun, just when i think we’re in love, your sky turns from blue to grey | |
Melbourne | Shit Present | 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 | |
Melbourne | Whitlams | Walking ’round the rainy city, what a pity there’s things to do at home | |
Melbourne Blue To Melbourne Green | John Williamson | Melbourne blue to Melbourne green, the prettiest picture you’ve ever seen | |
Melbourne City | David Bridie | ||
The Melbourne Cup | Slim Dusty | 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 | |
Melbourne Girls | Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls | Another crash landing but we’re still standing and we will survive, Melbourne girls don’t cry | |
Melbourne’s Just Not New York | Little Heroes | ||
Melbourne Song | Colin Hay | The land was stripped bare, just nothin’ there, so we headed down back to Melbourne town | |
Melbourne Storm | Melbourne Storm NRL Club | We are the Storm from Melbourne Town, we’ll blow the others off the ground | |
Melbourne Summer | iOTA | Through the window a tree shines from street light, Melbourne summer is cloudy and alright | |
Melbourne The Musical | Mitch Moffit | That’s who I am, that’s why I came to Melbourne Australia | |
Melbourne To Sydney | Ross Hubbard | Melbourne to Sydney, well it’s just shy of 900 k’s, in a few short hours, I’ll be on my way | |
Melbourne To Sydney In 18 Hours | Bushwackers | ||
Melbourne Town | Greg Champion | We’re just out doin’ the round, toolin’ around in Melbourne Town | |
Melbourne Town | Neil Murray | ||
Melbourne We’ll Meet Outside | Little Stevies | Melbourne we’ll meet outside, we’ll put chairs on the grass between houses and laugh | |
Mile Over Melbourne | Strawpeople | ||
Mourningtown Ride | TISM | Don’t get off the train at Richmond, the skins want your Doc Martins References a variety of Melbourne suburbs in the lyrics | |
Move On | Jet | 10.34, Flinders Street Station, I’m lookin’ down the tracks | |
Ned Kelly | Rolf Harris | And three years locked him in Melbourne’s Pentridge Jail gave him that Ned Kelly brand | |
Nothing Beats The Fooy At The MCG | Jim Cadman | Nothing beats the, nothing beats the footy at the MCG, no, nothing beats the footy at the G | |
The Parable Of Glenn McGrath’s Haircut | TISM | You were such a cocky, successful winner when we were 16, but now you’re just another sad fat prick sitting in the MCG | |
Poor Ned | Redgum | You know they took Ned Kelly and they hung him in the Melbourne Gaol | |
Postcards From Melbourne | Raoul Graf | Maybe I should send a postcard from Melbourne or leave you alone, alone again | |
Pub | Cosmic Psychos | At the Redesdale, at the Petersham, at the Esplanade pub | |
Regent To Ruthven | Marcel Borrack | Out in the northern suburbs, riding on the trains, Regent to Ruthven, there’s something in the names | |
Return To The City Of Folded Arms | Bluebottle Kiss | Straight to the city of folded arms, I can’t be bothered to siphon out it’s charms | |
Roaring Days | Weddings Parties Anything | Oh take me down to Young and Jackson’s, we’ll do a bit of serious drinking. Young & Jackson’s is a pub in Melbourne | |
Roll On | Living End | The shipyards are deserted on the docks of Melbourne town | |
Servin’ USA | Redgum | We’ll all be serving in Queensland, Hobart, Melbourne and Russell Hill (inside, outside, USA) | |
Sixteen In Melbourne | Ron Rude | I’m sixteen in Melbourne, I ain’t got no girl | |
Stuck In Melbourne | Warner Brothers | And he was stuck there in Melbourne again, he burned the bridges to his baby, she was looking for a new boyfriend | |
The Suburb In Between | Mabels | ||
Take It In | Waifs | So we step outside into this Melbourne weather | |
That’s The Thing About Football | Greg Champion | I got a long road to walk down, to catch a tram to my favourite ground | |
Town With No Cheer | Tom Waits | There’ll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo from Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander | |
Tropical London | Rancid | Melbourne is a tropical London, I met a girl in a tropical London | |
Under The Clocks | Weddings Parties Anything | Hey, hey, I see a Melbourne girl on a rusty Malvern Star | |
The Westgate Bridge Disaster | Don Henderson | I’ll sing a song of sorrow, a story sad to tell, of men who died on the Westgate Bridge | |
When I First Met Your Ma | Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls | I walked two miles in Melbourne rain, I could have walked ten more | |
Whole Lotta Rosie | AC/DC | Written about a Tasmanian woman who Bon Scott partied with in Melbourne | |
With My Swag All On My Shoulder | Traditional Seekers |
And then we came to Melbourne town, we all prepared to slip. Traditional bush ballad | |
songs about MELBOURNE – ALAMEIN | |||
Alamein Train | Pete Best Beatles | The Alamein train is two coaches long, it’s not too fast and it’s not too strong, but it’s taking me away forever | |
songs about MELBOURNE – ALBERT PARK | |||
Gasworks Park | Ice Cream Hands | At night in Gasworks Park, let the cool breeze blow, at night in Gasworks Park, no one needs to know | |
songs about MELBOURNE – ALTONA | |||
Hello Cruel World | Klinger | From St Kilda to Altona North is fourteen hours by public transport but worth it to be with you | |
Last Train From Mobiltown | Broderick Smith’s Big Combo | Gasoline rainbow in the sky, over the fields where the dead cars lie, last train from Mobiltown Mobiltown is a disused railway station which was once part of the Altona railway line. |
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songs about MELBOURNE – ASHBURTON | |||
Alamein Train | Pete Best Beatles | Who’s this coming down the carriage towards me? It’s one of the Ashburton boys | |
songs about MELBOURNE – BALWYN | |||
Balwyn Calling | Skyhooks | Hey boy that’s Balwyn calling, get on the phone and do a bit of stalling | |
songs about MELBOURNE – BRIGHTON | |||
Brighton Creeper | Wendy & The Rocketts | ||
songs about MELBOURNE – BRUNSWICK | |||
Brunswick | Weddings Parties Anything | When I ain’t been to Brunswick for a long long time | |
Death In Brunswick | Phillip Judd | From the soundtrack to the movie, Death In Brunswick | |
East Brunswick Run Down | City, City, City | ||
songs about MELBOURNE – CAMBERWELL | |||
Alamein Train | Pete Best Beatles | The rest of the world can go to hell, I’m changing trains at Camberwell | |
songs about MELBOURNE – CARLTON | |||
Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo) | Skyhooks | The sun sets over Carlton, the moonlight floods the streets | |
Lygon Street Meltdown | Melbourne Ska Orchestra | Tonight the prince is losing his crown, here comes the Lygon Street meltdown | |
We Are The Navy Blues | Carlton Blues Football Club | We’re the team that never lets you down, we’re the only team old Carlton knows. To the tune of Lily Of Laguna | |
songs about MELBOURNE – CAROLINE SPRINGS | |||
Spring Me Out Of Caroline Springs, Caroline | ROOT! | Come rescue me, I’m only twenty minutes from the CBD if you drive at 250, Caroline | |
songs about MELBOURNE – COLLINGWOOD | |||
Collingwood | The Sharp | Collingwood was so good, Collingwood was so good, calling, calling, something was calling us back to Collingwood | |
Collingwood Boy | Bakewell Street | ||
Good Old Collingwood Forever | Collingwood Magpies Football Club | Good old Collingwood forever, they know how to play the game. To the tune of Goodbye Dolly Gray | |
Grey Skies Over Collingwood | Strange Tenants Weddings Parties Anything |
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Hail Hail The Pies Are Here | Greg Champion | Hail hail the Pies are here, Collingwood forever, Collingwood forever | |
Under The Clocks | Weddings Parties Anything | He stands outside a Collingwood hotel | |
songs about MELBOURNE – CRANBOURNE | |||
900 Bucks | ROOT! | It wouldn’t pay for my girlfriend’s designer thong for the Cranbourne High School Year 9 Formal | |
The Mordialloc Rd Duplicator | TISM | There’ll be turn offs to Tootgarook, Cranbourne, Frankston and Five Ways | |
songs about MELBOURNE – CREMORNE | |||
Match Factory | Orbweavers | Moon rises over the match factory, I’m heading north from the river down those narrow Cremorne streets | |
songs about MELBOURNE – DANDENONG | |||
Greg! The Stop Sign | TISM | And graffiti the Dandenong line | |
Thank You God | Tim Minchin | He popped down to Dandenong and just like that, used his powers to heal the cataracts of Sam’s mum | |
songs about MELBOURNE – EDITHVALE | |||
The Battle Of Edithvale | The Beautiful Few | I want a bank and a place to park, I want a drink after dark | |
songs about MELBOURNE – ESSONDON | |||
Essondon 1986 | East Brunswick All Girls Choir | ||
See The Bombers Fly Up | Essondon Bombers Football Club | See the Bombers fly up, up, to win the premiership flag. To the tune of Keep Your Sunnyside Up | |
songs about MELBOURNE – FITZROY | |||
Ballad Of 1975 | Roaring Jack | I remember the day I was no more than a boy, working in an oxide plant at the back of North Fitzroy | |
Brunswick Street | Rich Webb | He came riding on the backbone of some calamity, saying, “These Fitzroy bars, they can’t hold me” | |
Brunswick Street | Women In Docs | I stubbed my thumb out on Brunswick Street, I was 5k from home | |
Brunswick St Girl | Warner Bros | She struck me as quite nice, she served me coffee once or twice, I fell in love with that Brunswick St girl | |
Charcoal Lane | Archie Roach | Side by side we walk along to the end of Gertrude Street. Gertrude Street is a street in Fitzroy | |
Deep In Our Hearts We All Barrack For Fitzroy | Greg Champion Coodabeen Champions |
Deep in our hearts everyone barracks for Fitzroy, whether we say we barrack for somebody else or not | |
Fitzroy Love Song | Flap! | Birds sing and sun shines through my window, smiling day and night | |
Fitzroy Strongman | Sodastream | Bringing down this pretty useless town, it’s a useless town | |
Old Fitzroy | Dan Sultan | Little boy you’re my pride and joy, the only good thing about old Fitzroy | |
Rushall Station | Underground Lovers | I could seize it onto my line, I was going to hang out at Rushall Station for a while | |
Separation Street | Andy White | There’s a full moon tonight over Separation Street, I’m driving down the tramlines avoiding places we could meet | |
Spring Me Out Of Caroline Springs, Caroline | ROOT! | They say you grew up on the golden mile, went to Fitzroy just to slum it | |
Streets Of Old Fitzroy | Harry Williams And The Country Outcasts | 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 | |
Under The Rotunda | Lucksmiths | 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. The song is set in Edinburgh Gardens, North Fitzroy | |
The Young Crazed Peeling | Distillers | My name is Brody, I’m from Melbourne, Fitzroy Melbourne, Fitzroy Melbourne | |
songs about MELBOURNE – FLEMINGTON | |||
Dad’s Flowers | John Williamson | 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 | |
songs about MELBOURNE – FOOTSCRAY | |||
Footscray | Billy Miller | Take a walk to Footscray Park, stay out til the sky is dark | |
Footscray Frankston | Jimmy Loops feat. Miss C | If you’re in my hood you better look twice, getting high all the time, this is Footscray life | |
Footscray Park | Bob Evans | Take a walk to Footscray Park, stay out til the sky is dark | |
Footscray Station | Camp Cope | There’s a rally in the city if you wanna meet there and I’m running as fast as I can to Footscray Station | |
Sons Of The West | Western Bulldogs Football Club | Cause you can’t beat the boys of the Bulldog breed, the team of the mighty west. To the tune of Sons Of The Sea | |
songs about MELBOURNE – FRANKSTON | |||
3199 | Bellhop | I can smell it, can you taste it, Frankston station, degradation | |
Football Train | Mark Seymour & the Undertow | When you take a chance down on Young Street, you take your life into your hands | |
Footscray Frankston | Jimmy Loops feat. Miss C | If you’re in my hood you better have a knife, doing crime to survive, this is Frankston life | |
Frankston Girls | The Bennies | This one goes out to the Frankston girls, I gave you a necklace made of pearls | |
The Frankston Line | Youth Group | The Frankston line’s full of teenage crime and the cops can’t do no more | |
The Frankston Line Singalong | The Beautiful Few | Been taking a lot of trains lately since the cops busted me | |
I Farken Love You (A Frankston Love Song) | The Resignators | ||
The Mordialloc Rd Duplicator | TISM | There’ll be turn offs to Tootgarook, Cranbourne, Frankston and Five Ways | |
Run | Seth Sentry | There’s a bunch of Frankensteins up on the Frankston line, dead folks scratching their neck-bolts | |
Straight Outta Frankston | Lewis Spears | As I leave best believe I’m shankin’, but when I come back boi I’m comin’ straight outta Frankston | |
songs about MELBOURNE – GLEN WAVERLEY | |||
Back To Glen Waverley For Christmas | Greg Champion | ||
Out In The Suburbs | Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band | Out in the suburbs, Glen Waverley, baby, is where I’m meant to be | |
Waverley | Wagons | We’re sitting on a bench not doing a lot, here in Waverley | |
songs about MELBOURNE – HAWTHORN | |||
The Mighty Fighting Hawks | Hawthorn Hawks Football Club | We’re a happy team at Hawthorn, we’re the mighty fighting Hawks. To the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy | |
songs about MELBOURNE – HIGHETT | |||
The Highett Waltz | Barry Humphries | For it’s all beautifully quiet in Highett, where my daughter and son in law dwell | |
songs about MELBOURNE – KEW | |||
The Maryborough Miner | Traditional Gary Shearston |
I puddled the clay at Bendigo and chanced my arm at Kew. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930’s | |
songs about MELBOURNE – LAVERTON | |||
Scorn Of The Women | Weddings Parties Anything Jon English |
My screwdriver in hand, making aircraft out at Laverton | |
songs about MELBOURNE – MANDOORAH | |||
Mandoorah Reservoir | Augie March | ||
songs about MELBOURNE – MERNDA | |||
Ghost Train To Mernda | Mick Thomas | Ghost train to Mernda, ghost train to Mernda | |
songs about MELBOURNE – MERRI CREEK | |||
Merri | Orbweavers | 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 | |
songs about MELBOURNE – MITCHAM | |||
Robert Mitchum at Mitcham Station | Rob Snarski | It’s a shame Mitcham Station wasn’t named after Robert, if only they could change one little vowel | |
songs about MELBOURNE – MORDIALLOC | |||
The Mordialloc Rd Duplicator | TISM | If you’re behind a truck or freighter, say “thank God for the Mordialloc Road duplicator | |
songs about MELBOURNE – MULGRAVE | |||
VFL Park In The Dark | Greg Champion Coodabeen Champions |
Down at VFL Park, VFL Park in the dark. VFL Park (currently known as Waverley Park) is situated in Mulgrave | |
Waverley Park | Loin Groin | Waverley Park is situated in Mulgrave | |
songs about MELBOURNE – NORTHCOTE | |||
Dennis | Charles Jenkins & The Amateur Historians | Bandcamp | If I were to ever catch a train, I’d catch a train at Dennis. Dennis is a train station in Northcote |
Northcote (So Hungover) | Bedroom Philosopher | ||
Three Oh Seven Ohh | Blood Duster | Used to breathe the Northcote air and it smelled like the dole, til all the artists came, it has taken a toll | |
Under The Clocks | Weddings Parties Anything | Through the spastic Northcote streets at dawn | |
songs about MELBOURNE – NORTH MELBOURNE | |||
Join In The Chorus | North Melbourne Kangaroos | Join in the chorus, North Melbourne’s on the ball. To the tune of A Wee Doch And Doris | |
North Melbourne | Allday | She drop it low to stay warm, she got nothing on North Melbourne at a party on something strong | |
songs about MELBOURNE – PORT MELBOURNE | |||
Anderson’s Coast | John Roberts & Debra Cowan | And somewhere west, Port Melbourne lies, and where are you, my Annie? | |
songs about MELBOURNE – PRESTON | |||
Depreston | Courtney Barnett | We drive to a house in Preston, we see police arestin’ a man with his hand in a bag | |
Three Oh Seven Ohh | Blood Duster | Out to Preston, I move out of the three oh seven oh | |
songs about MELBOURNE – RICHMOND | |||
Accidently Kelly Street | Frente | 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. | |
Coming Home To Richmond | Alex Lloyd | Yeah, we’re coming home, all you mighty Tigers roar, this is now a place to call your own | |
Oh, We’re From Tigerland | Richmond Tigers Football Club | Oh, we’re from Tigerland, a fighting fury we’re from Tigerland. To the tune of Row, Row, Row | |
songs about MELBOURNE – RINGWOOD | |||
Lost Inside of Eastland | Sunset Stranger | Now I don’t see too many friends from Ringwood anymore, we drifted during high school, that’s just the way it goes. Eastland is a shopping centre in Ringwood | |
songs about MELBOURNE – ROWVILLE | |||
Fourteen Years In Rowville | TISM | You may as well obey the law, I sentence you to Rowville | |
songs about MELBOURNE – SANDRINGHAM | |||
The Sandringham Line | Lucksmiths | The twenty-seven minutes of the Sandringham line, the suburbs sliding past | |
songs about MELBOURNE – SPOTSWOOD | |||
Spotswood | Orbweavers | Down by the river where the factories lie and the Westgate stretches across the sky | |
songs about MELBOURNE – SPRINGVALE | |||
The Mordialloc Rd Duplicator | TISM | From lower Springvale to the Frankston Freeway, until you get to that bitumen stain | |
songs about MELBOURNE – ST KILDA | |||
Borderline Summertime | James Blundell | It may be a cold wind down in St Kilda but it ain’t raining way up here, it’s borderline summertime | |
The Crowd | Cat Empire | We’re going to sleep on the St Kilda sands | |
From St Kilda To Fitzroy | Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra | From St Kilda towards St Kilda West, start my walk of shamelessness | |
From St Kilda To Kings Cross | Paul Kelly | From St Kilda to Kings Cross is thirteen hours on a bus | |
Hello Cruel World | Klinger | From St Kilda to Altona North is fourteen hours by public transport but worth it to be with you | |
Killed Her In St Kilda | Voodoo Lovecats | I killed her in St Kilda, now she’ll never make me sad | |
Melodies Of St Kilda | Masters Apprentices | ||
The Rise And Rise Of The Reverand Bobby’s Buskers | GANGgajang | She saw the buskers on a hot summer night and followed them to St Kilda in the rain |
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St Kilda Nights | Purple Dentists | ||
Sunshower | Little Stevies | Walking down St Kilda pier I hear your voice in my ear | |
Tallulah | Allo Darlin’ | St Kilda, Coolangatta, Bondi Beach and Coogee Bay, I like the sound of their names | |
When The Saints Go Marching In | St. Kilda Saints Football Club | Oh how I want to be with St Kilda when the Saints go marching in | |
songs about MELBOURNE – SUNBURY | |||
Sunbury ’97 | Fauves | Come on lets run, follow the sun, follow Sunbury 97 | |
songs abot MELBOURNE – SUNSHINE | |||
The Sunshine Railway Disaster | Traditional Warren Fahey |
He was driving a Bendigo engine, the train was running all right, it was going along as usual, til Sunshine came in sight. Traditional bush ballad written about the Sunshine train disaster on April 20, 1908 | |
songs about MELBOURNE – TEMPLESTOWE | |||
Fabulon | Redgum | Carry it away from Myer’s now requiring of us a loan, how can we live without these things in Templestowe? In the studio recording of Fabulon, the Melbourne suburb of Templestow was used, whereas in live recordings the Sydney suburb of Cammeray was substituted |
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songs about MELBOURNE – THOMASTOWN | |||
Thomastown | Not Drowning, Waving | ||
songs about MELBOURNE – THORNBURY | |||
Thornbury | Ruck Rover | The rods have got potholes and your car falls apart | |
songs about MELBOURNE – TOORAK | |||
Toorak Cowboy | Skyhooks | Well, he’s a village playboy, Toorak Cowboy, yes, he is | |
songs about MELBOURNE – TULLAMARINE | |||
Where Ya Gonna Run To? | Redgum | A long white car out at Tullamarine | |
songs about MELBOURNE – WARRANDYTE | |||
Angels Of Warrandyte | The Beautiful Few | No need for shaving or bedmaking, I’ve got a $50 a week room in the southern Mallee hotel | |
songs about MELBOURNE – WERRIBEE | |||
(I Go To) Werribee | TISM | Well, when my baby, when my baby looks at me I go to Werribee | |
Werribee | Sandro | Werribee south, lovers in a valiant, walk past, don’t look in the window | |
Werribee Train | Seagull | The whole point of the thing is just to stare out of the Werribee train | |
songs about MELBOURNE – WEST MELBOURNE | |||
Blue Lake | Orbweavers | Blue Lake, where is it you lie? Hidden, on the north-west side, beneath bitumen, I heard they filled you in | |
songs about MELBOURNE – YARRA RIVER | |||
Happy Birthday Helen | Things Of Stone And Wood | Let’s not forget last night, yeah how we drove along the Yarra | |
My Brown Yarra | Whirling Furphies | When I die put me in a barra, wheel me down to the banks of the Yarra | |
Yarra Song | Billy Bragg | There’s a chill tonight on the Yarra, winter is creeping in, while far away my loved ones wake?up?in England’s spring | |
songs about APOLLO BAY | |||
Apollo Bay | Craig Finn | My head was really hurting, I had to take it to Apollo Bay | |
Apollo Bay | Uncle Ben’s Last Words | And it’s a long way to Apollo Bay, but if you keep singing like this, I think I might like this | |
Apollo Bay Skies | Moira Tyers | Apollo Bay Skies, stars sparkle until the sun comes arisen over Marriners Hill | |
Hardly Slept In Days | Enjoy Yourself Always | Well I’ve hardly slept in days, I’ve been surfing waves at Apollo Bay | |
I’m On My Way (To Apollo Bay) | Lionel Lee | I’m finally on my way down this winding road to Apollo Bay | |
I Wanna Play Apollo Bay | Weekend Rockstars | But I wanna play Apollo Bay, I really wanna get the gig | |
songs about ARARAT | |||
Australia – The World’s Suburb | TISM | Imagine if old Yassa Arafat was given everything east of Ararat | |
Bush Telegraph | John Williamson | And there’s been a fight in Dinny Ryan’s bar at Ararat | |
songs about BACCHUS MARCH | |||
A Grainy Image | Billy Bunks | You might say that it’s harsh, but I had to smack her for leaving my packet of tabacca in her backpack out the back of the Maccas in Bacchus Marsh | |
songs about BALLARAT | |||
The Ballarat Horse Auctioneer | Traditional | You’ll not in all Ballarat find one like him. Traditional folk ballad dating from the 1850s | |
The Cockies Of Bungaree | Traditional Warren Fahey |
I’ll never forget the day I met that cocky in Bungaree. Traditional bush ballad. Bungaree is situated just east of Ballarat | |
Bush Telegraph | John Williamson | There’s rumour of a gold strike to the south of Ballarat | |
Go To Nashville | John Williamson | Sounding more like Haggard than a guy from Ballarat | |
I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | I’ve been to Ettalong, Dandenong, Woodenbong, Ballarat | |
The Maryborough Miner | Traditional Gary Shearston |
I’ve been on all the diggings boys from famous Ballarat. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930’s | |
The Nugget Family | Traditional Warren Fahey |
I’m going to tell you about a family in Ballarat, sir, their name is Nugget and they’ve lived some time upon the flat, sir. Traditional bush ballad dating back to 1858 | |
With My Swag All On My Shoulder | Traditional Seekers |
We made our way to Geelong town, and north-west to Ballarat. Traditional bush ballad | |
songs about BEECHWORTH | |||
Brisbane To Beechworth | Matt Taylor | ||
The Wild Colonial Boy | Traditional Clancy Brothers |
He stuck up the Beechworth mail coach and robbed Judge Macoboy. Traditional bush ballad | |
songs about BENDIGO | |||
Bendigo | Dave Hughes | Comedy routine | |
Bendigo Rock | Russell Morris | Got to get my piece of that Bendigo rock | |
Bendigo (Welcome Stranger) | Keith Glass | ||
Bush Telegraph | John Williamson | Fat lambs brought a record price last week in Bendigo | |
The Digger’s Farewell | Traditional | I will bid my kind friends one and all a long and sad adieu, for on Bendigo I man not be again. Traditional bush ballad | |
Gold Song | Milk | I sailed off to Bendigo where I heard the streets were paved with gold | |
The Grog Tent We Got Tipsy In | Traditional | The grog tent we got tipsy in, in old Bendigo, was certainly the queerest place it’s been my lot to know. Traditional bush ballad | |
I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Bendigo, Dorrigo, Bangalow, Indooroopilly | |
Lady From Bendigo | Eric Bogle | And if you love me let it show, my lady from Bendigo | |
Let Me Go To Bendigo | Traditional | Let me go by the very first train, back to Bendigo again. Traditional bush ballad | |
The Maryborough Miner | Traditional Gary Shearston |
I puddled the clay at Bendigo and chanced my arm at Kew. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930’s | |
Shazza And Michelle | ROOT! | Down in Bendigo there were these two girls, Shazza and Michelle, they won a talent contest, they could sing that well | |
The Sunshine Railway Disaster | Traditional Warren Fahey |
He was driving a Bendigo engine, the train was running all right, it was going along as usual, til Sunshine came in sight. Traditional bush ballad written about the Sunshine train disaster on April 20, 1908 | |
With My Swag All On My Shoulder | Traditional Seekers |
Some tried their luck at Bendigo and some at Fiery Creek. Traditional bush ballad | |
songs about BENNISON | |||
Dear Diary (Nyora Railway Journal) | John Warner | Dear diary, Bill’s been gone these seven days, carting sleepers down at Bennison, or some such place | |
songs about BILLABONG | |||
I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Gulgong, Adelong, Billabong, Cabramatta | |
songs about BRIGHT | |||
By The Time I Get To Howlong | Spiderbait | Mist on the road, driving to Bright again | |
songs about CAMPERDOWN | |||
Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | Camperdown to Coleraine, they’ve all been kind to me | |
songs about CASTLEMAINE | |||
The Wild Colonial Boy | Traditional Clancy Brothers |
Of poor but honest parents, he was born in Castlemaine. Traditional bush ballad | |
songs about DANDENONG | |||
Great Southern Navvy | John Warner | From Dandenong to Yarram in a couple of years or two | |
I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | I’ve been to Ettalong, Dandenong, Woodenbong, Ballarat | |
Marvellous | 12th Man | From Darwin to the Dandenongs | |
songs about EUROA | |||
The Kelly Gang | Traditional Buddy Williams |
It was in November ’79 the Kelly boys came down, after shooting Sergeant Kennedy they rode into Euroa town | |
songs about GEELONG | |||
We Are Geelong | Geelong Cats Football Club | We are Geelong the greatest team of all, we are Geelong, we’re always on the ball. To the tune of Toreador from Carmen | |
Gee Geelong | Mark Pengilly | Gee Geelong, gee Geelong, how come you get all the blondes | |
The Good People Of Geelong | San Clemente Sky | ||
I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | I’ve been to Wollongong, Geelong, Kurrajong, Mullumbimby | |
Out To Winchelsea | Greg Champion | Spent enough time round Corio Bay, didn’t mean to stay this long. Corio Bay is adjacent to Geelong | |
We Were Geelong | Greg Champion | We were Geelong the greatest team of all, we were Geelong we, were always on the ball | |
With My Swag All On My Shoulder | Traditional Seekers |
We made our way to Geelong town, and north-west to Ballarat. Traditional bush ballad | |
songs about GIPPSLAND | |||
Gippsland Mining Man | John Warner | I’m a Gippsland mining man and I’ll tell you while I can | |
South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | Arise, you Gippsland cockies, two hours before the sun, you’ve sixteen God given hours to fill before the day is done | |
Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | But the hills and vales of Gippsland are something to be seen | |
songs about GREAT OCEAN ROAD | |||
Citronella | Guild League | The car reads a curve as the road writes a crest, slow-motion the ocean is ironing its creases | |
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 Ocean Road | Andy Glandt | Great Ocean Road and amazing countryside on the huge Australian island | |
Great Ocean Road | John Williamson | Couldn’t let the moment slip away, love was the mood down the Great Ocean Road | |
The Great Ocean Road | San Clemente Sky | ||
songs about HAMILTON | |||
Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | And the Highway down to Hamilton is a fine one to ride | |
songs about HORSESHOE LAKE | |||
Horseshoe Lake | Orbweavers | I slept in the bed of a horseshoe lake last night, a cartridge crown and a shroud of silvery light | |
songs about JOHANNA | |||
Goin’ To Johanna | Bluesville Station | We’re going to some place where the living’ easy, we’re going to some place where the fishing’s fine, take me back down to Zanna, back to Johanna | |
songs about KILMORE | |||
I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Nambour, Maroochydore, Kilmore, Murwillumbah | |
songs about KOO WEE RUP | |||
Australia – The World’s Suburb | TISM | All those guys would rather blow it up than move their home to Koo Wee Rup | |
Great Southern Navvy | John Warner | And we’ll dig your muddy railway out of Koo-Wee-Rup | |
songs about KORUMBURRA | |||
South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | A bloke to Korumburra came and went in for a drink, he left his dray and bullock team which then began to sink | |
songs about LAKE BOLAC | |||
Goin’ Off | Tania Kernaghan | The Lake Bolac Ball was huge | |
songs about LANG LANG | |||
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Ted Egan | It’s Lang Lang and it’s Ki Ki, Wangi Wangi and Woy Woy | |
songs about MARYBOROUGH | |||
The Maryborough Miner | Traditional Gary Shearston |
I’m a Maryborough miner, and I’m one of the good old time. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930’s | |
songs about MARYSVILLE | |||
Marysville | Kevin Welch | The winds of heaven gonna do what they will, they just blew away pretty little Marysville | |
This Was My Town (Marysville) | Greg Champion | Come all from all around, rebuild this town | |
songs about MILDURA | |||
Dedication Day | Eric Bogle | August in Mildura, and winter’s on the run, there’s an early taste of springtime, in the warm mid-morning sun | |
Hungry Years | Weddings Parties Anything | So we’re down and out in Ouyen town, and you know we are Mildura bound | |
Mildura Wine | Tom Maxwell | Mildura wine, with the beauty of the Murray and the people so kind, I love that Mildura wine | |
songs about MITTA MITTA | |||
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Ted Egan | You don’t call Mitta Mitta "Mitta" | |
songs about NARIEL CREEK | |||
Nariel Creek | Bobkatz | Well I took my kids fishing and I’ve never had a better time yet | |
songs about OMEO | |||
Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | And should you go through Omeo then say hello for me | |
songs about OUTTRIM | |||
South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | You miners all at Outtrim, and Wonthaggi by the sea, you farmers all at Tarwin Lower, come drink a toast with me | |
songs about OUYEN | |||
Hungry Years | Weddings Parties Anything | So we’re down and out in Ouyen town, and you know we are Mildura bound | |
songs about PETERBOROUGH | |||
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Ted Egan | Peterborough isn’t "Peter" | |
songs about POOWONG | |||
The Ballad Of The Poowing Magpies | ROOT! | Found a secret hidden pipe to the town’s water supply, irrigation on the sly at the Poowong Magpies | |
Danes of Poowong East: Robin’s Dream 1 (Recorded 2018) | Dual Aura, Ben Dollman, & Monica Schmidt Andersen | ||
songs about PORT FAIRY | |||
Australia – The World’s Suburb | TISM | Make the middle east far less hairy and none of us would miss Port Fairy | |
songs about PORTLAND | |||
Working Girls | Redgum | She said she came from Portland, where the ashen skies and leaden ocean left her like the local boys | |
songs about PORTSEA | |||
The Mordialloc Rd Duplicator | TISM | One day all the way to Portsea it’ll be all big divided freeways | |
songs about PUCKAPUNYAL | |||
I Was Only 19 | Redgum John Williamson The Herd |
Mum and dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal, it was a long march from Cadets | |
Puckapunyal | Warren Fahey & Mic Conway | Pack up all your bags and kit, Puckapunyal’s up the shit, bye bye Pucka | |
songs about PURA PURA | |||
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Ted Egan | You never call Pura Pura "Pura" | |
songs about QUAMBATOOK | |||
The Boomerang Cafe | John Williamson | At the Boomerang Cafe, where I first met you. written about the Boomerang Cafe in Quambatook | |
Boyhood Story | John Williamson | If only I could go fishin’ down the river again, up before he sun with a can of worms. No actual mention of the town in the song, however John states in his book True Blue that it is about Quambatook and the Avoca River | |
Cootamundra Wattle | John Williamson | Hey it’s July and the winter sun is shining and the Cootamundra wattle is my friend. No actual mention of the town in the song, however John has stateed “About six miles out of Quambatook, there was a corner on one of the bends on the road to another town, and it always had boronias and wattles that seemed prolific in that spot. My mother made the council take care of it and preserve it so they wouldn’t put a road through” | |
Dear Little Quambatook | John Williamson | My little town hasn’t disappeared yet, Quambatook, take a look you’ll never forget | |
Salisbury Street | John Williamson The Waifs |
And we’ll reminisce our days down Salisbury Street. As stated by John in the liner notes of Gunyah, “Salisbury Street is where our second home was in Quambatook.” | |
songs about QUEENSCLIFF | |||
Sunshower | Little Stevies | And we’ll grab an oar each and see if we can paddle to Queenscliff | |
songs about SERVICETON | |||
Town With No Cheer | Tom Waits | The train stopped in Serviceton less and less often, there’s nothing sadder than a town with no cheer | |
songs about SEYMOUR | |||
I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Tullamore, Seymour, Lismore, Mooloolaba | |
songs about SHEPPARTON | |||
By The Time I Get To Howlong | Spiderbait | Cause I’m sittin’ down upon a train to Shepparton and back again | |
songs about SIMPSON | |||
Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | Skipton ‘cross to Simpson and on down to the sea | |
songs about SKIPTON | |||
Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | Skipton ‘cross to Simpson and on down to the sea | |
songs about STRATFORD | |||
Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | I’ve been from Stratford to Yarram and all the way back again | |
songs about STREZELECKI | |||
Fires Of ’98 | John Warner | I stand here and gaze over Strzelecki’s Range, and turn in my heart half a century of change | |
songs about SWAN HILL | |||
Boogie With M’ Baby | John Williamson | I went to this rock dance – in Swan Hill | |
songs about TALLAROOK | |||
Clean Up Our Own Backyard | Slim Dusty | There’s an old rhyme that pits out time, take it for what it’s worth, things are crook at Tallarook and there ain’t no work in Bourke | |
songs about TARRENGOWER | |||
The Maryborough Miner | Traditional Gary Shearston |
I’m one of the men who cradled on the reef at Tarrangower. Traditional bush ballad dating back to the 1930’s | |
songs about TARWIN LOWER | |||
South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | You miners all at Outtrim, and Wonthaggi by the sea, you farmers all at Tarwin Lower, come drink a toast with me | |
songs about TOOTGAROOK | |||
The Mordialloc Rd Duplicator | TISM | There’ll be turn offs to Tootgarook, Cranbourne, Frankston and Five Ways | |
songs about TRAFALGAR | |||
Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | She was a teacher in Trafalgar and she shared her precious kiss | |
songs about TRARALGON | |||
Living In Traralgon | Danny McDonald | A knack of bad presentation is keeping our name alive | |
Traralgon | Parasite Diet | ||
songs about VICTORIA | |||
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 | |
Town With No Cheer | Tom Waits | This tiny Victorian rhubarb kept the watering hole open for sixty five years | |
Victoria | Greg Champion & The Coodabeen Champions | The Victoria boys are hard to beat when they come out to play | |
Victoria Bitter (She Made Me That Way) | Keith Glass | ||
Victorian State Election 2002 Song | Scared Weird Little Guys | It’s the Victorian State Election 2002, it’s time to make your mind up and decide who’s right for you | |
Victoria (There’s A River) | Keith Glass | ||
When It’s Springtime In Victoria | Les Partell | When it’s springtime in Victoria, the state where I was born | |
songs about WALKERVILLE | |||
Walkerville | Weddings Parties Anything | As the morning sun was breaking on the cliffs at Walkerville | |
songs about WANGARATTA | |||
Australiana | Austen Tayshus | So I grabbed a beer, flashed me Wangarratta and went out and joined the party | |
I’ve Been Everywhere | Lucky Starr | Parramatta, Wangaratta, Coolangatta, what’s it matter? | |
Wangaratta Wahine | Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band | My Wahine in white Wangaratta, it is not goodbye, we will hula again. Written by Mick Conway and David Fleet | |
songs about WARBURTON | |||
Stars Of Warburton | Midnight Oil | I couldn’t believe the stars of Warburton were waiting for me | |
songs about WINCHELSEA | |||
Out To Winchelsea | Greg Champion | Are you comin’ with me, we’re goin’ out Winchelsea way | |
songs about WODONGA | |||
Gotta Root Out Of It | TISM | Drops in to tell us that we are one big Albury-Wodonga | |
songs about WONTHAGGI | |||
South Gippsland Mud | John Warner | You miners all at Outtrim, and Wonthaggi by the sea, you farmers all at Tarwin Lower, come drink a toast with me | |
Wonthaggi | John Williamson | But I would keep you warm if ever we’re stuck in winter in Wonthaggi | |
songs about WOOL WOOL | |||
Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga | Ted Egan | You don’t call Wool Wool "Wool" | |
songs about YACKANDANDAH | |||
Sons Of The Country | Colin Buchanan | Yackandandah, Louth and Warrego | |
songs about YARRAM | |||
Great Southern Navvy | John Warner | From Dandenong to Yarram in a couple of years or two | |
Stratford To Yarram | Greg Champion | I’ve been from Stratford to Yarram and all the way back again | |
songs about YARRAWONGA | |||
I’m Going Back Again To Yarrawonga | Slim Dusty | I’m going back to Yarrawonga, in Yarrawonga I’ll linger longer |
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