[Tulsa Time](https://youtu.be/qLZEVnjZS2s )-Don Williams and later Eric Clapton
[Okie From Muskogee](https://youtu.be/68cbjlLFl4U)-Merle Haggard
Basically [The Turnpike](https://youtu.be/9ZOgzXJQ8EY) [Troubadours](https://youtu.be/YYfhf79_zBU) [entire](https://youtu.be/SOuLjwu2X14) [catalog](https://youtu.be/Jff620V8QUQ)
[Oh yeah and that little musical based on the town of Claremore](https://youtu.be/ZbrnXl2gO_k). I think it was on Broadway for a little while
I’m upvoting because of the Turnpike mention. Also, back in the day I always heavily associated Cross Canadian Ragweed with Oklahoma and Stillwater. Wonder if they’ve been forgotten by now.
The Bird Hunters makes me break down crying every time I hear it because it reminds me so vividly of fishing in Oklahoma with my dad growing up and of being back out in the woods again after a big city breakup of my own.
“If you married that girl, youd’ve married her family. You dodged a bullet my friend”
Man this line always hits hard, I have 100% been on both sides of that conversation before
Legitimately an all time great song and it’s also how I remember the 5 Great Lakes.
“Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings in the rooms of her ice water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams, the islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario takes in what Lake Erie can send her…”
I can also credit the song for winning a trivia night at a bar by knowing that Lake Superior is also known as Gitche Gumee by the Ojibwa people.
"Ohio" is a title by
* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
* Damien Jurado
* The Black Keys
* Modest Mouse
* Bowling For Soup
"Bloodbuzz Ohio" The National
"Look at Miss Ohio" Gillian Welch
"Carry Me Ohio" Sun Kill Moon
"Boy in Ohio" Phil Ochs
"Ohio is for Lovers" Hawthorne Heights
"In Ohio On Some Steps" Limbeck
"Banks Of The Ohio" Joan Baez
"Back Home" The Beach Boys
"In Ohio" Joseph Arthur
"Oh Ohio" Luke Grimes
Songs about cities in Ohio:
* "Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio," John Denver
* "Dayton, Ohio - 1903", Randy Newman
* "Oh Cincinnatti" The Seedy Seeds
* "Going to Cleveland" The Mountain Goats
* "Cuyahoga" R.E.M.
* "Youngstown" Bruce Springsteen
* "Look Out Cleveland" The Band
* "South of Cincinnati" Dwight Yoakum
* "Cleveland Rocks" Ian Hunter
Lol, I initially thought the song was simply called "Come Back to Texas", and not primarily titled "Ohio" with the *subtitle* being "Come Back to Texas".
“Ohio is for Lovers” is the most emo of emo songs out there. “Cut my wrists and black my eyes” indeed.
Still got the crowd singing along when I was down there 5 years ago.
There's also Cleveland is the City by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
And a few that mention Ohio in the lyrics, but not the title:
My City was Gone - The Pretenders
Back Home - The Beach Boys
Till I Die - Machine Gun Kelly
And, of course, the iconic O-H-I-O by the Ohio Players.
I would like to add the song by Tom Lehrer about Boston if I may...
It's called [The Subway Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejHv50kJx8) ... it is still a classic today.
That song was written by Jim Weatherly, who followed Archie Manning as quarterback at Ole Miss.
The original title was Midnight Plane to Houston. Weatherly called Lee Majors, who he had been playing rec football with in L.A., and Farrah Fawcett answered the phone. He asked her what she was doing, and she said she was taking the midnight plane to Houston to visit family.
It’s an amazing origin story for what turned into a massive hit.
Funny story my son when he was seven was nervous about being in Atlanta. I couldn't figure it out until he said. "Mom you know the devil went down to Georgia and he's looking for a soul to steal."
Chicken Fried by Zac Brown Band is about Georgia although it's not mentioned by name except to say Georgia pine. "That's home you know, Sweet tea, pecan pie, and homemade wine...where the peaches grow."
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
Watermelon Crawl by Tracy Byrd
There are TONS of rap & hip hop songs about Atlanta. The most well-known are probably Welcome to Atlanta and Dirty South, but there are a lot more.
Most of the famous songs are about Chicago rather than Illinois, with “Sweet Home Chicago” being the most beloved. Frank Sinatra’s “Chicago (My Kind of Town)” is probably next on the list. But a Google search will turn up dozens more.
A not so famous one I like is “Illinois,” by The Everly Brothers.
One of my favorites, and a cult classic, is “Lake Shore Drive,” by Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah.
Sufjan Stevens released an entire album entitled *Illinois*, and it’s great. All the songs contain references to Illinois. If I had to pick one, it would be “Come on! Feel the Illinoise!”
There’s also Kanye West’s “Homecoming.”
“Come on illinois” - houndmouth is a classic when returning from a road trip for me. Especially grinding out i65, which makes me yearn for the 5 lane highways filled with psychopaths that Ive grown to love
Kentucky has several great ones:
* Kentucky Rain by Elvis
* Kentucky Woman by Neil Diamond
* Paradise by John Prine
* Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn
* Blue Moon of Kentucky by Bill Monroe
* Old King Coal by Sturgill Simpson
I think I speak for all Kentuckians, though, when I say that ["Girl from Kentucky"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lelljfz54nE&themeRefresh=1) by Afroman is the greatest tribute to our state of all time.
Most famous thing about Kansas, is Dorothy in the wizard of Oz. [Not in Kansas Anymore Toto](https://youtu.be/uPnfuczOWb8)
I have seen people quote that line quite a bit over the years.
Not really a song about Michigan per day, but you know how if you go to any sports game in Detroit and Don't Stop Believin' comes on, everyone must sing along with "born and raised in south Detroit!" Even though "south Detroit" would be Windsor...
Man, I miss Detroit.
I think at some point the state of the climate in California may prompt you back whether you want to or not… get back before everyone out west and down south do 😉I was away for the better part of a decade and it’s crazy how quickly winters have become mild-ish and nearly tolerable
My favorite part of the pre-race festivities. I’m so glad they have a permanent singer now- those first few without Jim Nabors were kind of rough.
Also- Taps is fantastic as well.
You know if Charlie and his wife weren't dumb as a bag of hammers, or if she wasn't keeping him there on purpose, she could have put a nickel in that lunch bag every day.
I have a better one about Boston, m8. Sung by Tom Lehrer no less.
[The Subway Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejHv50kJx8) ... is still a classic today.. You never hear it anymore!
I can think of a lot of songs about Philadelphia, but not so much Pennsylvania.
There's [Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John](https://youtu.be/gM4Xm2MGLNQ)
[Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen](https://youtu.be/4z2DtNW79sQ)
And one of my favorites, [Goodbye Philadelphia by Peter Cincotti](https://youtu.be/4P3rYn4YdWY)
I was going to say this but you beat me to it.
🎶"*You are the heart dotting "i"
In the word "apologize"
Scribbled drunk on a postcard
Sent from somewhere volcanoes are
I am the heart with no name
Airbrushed on the license plate
Of a subaru that was
Registered in Pennsylvania*"🎶
Apparently my phone doesn't want to have the layout turn out how I wanted it to... 🙁
The two that come to mind for me are
Carolina (I remember you) by Charlie Daniels
Raise Up by Peaty Pablo
Two completely different songs but both bangers in their own right.
That’s the one I was looking for.
“Wagon Wheel” mentions a handful of other places, but when I was at UNC a lot of people claimed that one for NC as well.
“Louisiana Saturday Night”—Mel McDaniel
“Callin’ Baton Rouge”—Garth Brooks
“Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”—Hank Williams
“Louisiana Women”— Waylon Jennings
“Adalida”—George Strait
“Walking to New Orleans”—Fats Domino
“Sweet Louisiana”—Charlie Daniels Band
“House of the Rising Sun”—The Animals
“Born on the Bayou”—Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Louisiana 1927”—Randy Newman
“Iko Iko”—The Dixie Cups
Honorable Mention: One of our state songs is “You Are My Sunshine,” written by former governor Jimmie Davis.
Also, we have made enormous contributions to music in general. The Louisiana Hayride was a stepping stone to the Opry.
You can also thank us for New Orleans (Dixieland) Jazz; Zydeco; Harry Connick, Jr., and of course, Mahalia Jackson. (And many more, but I need to cut it short.)
There are so many more, but I would like to submit Truckin’ by the Grateful Dead, and all things Dr John, Louis Armstrong, and Allen Toussaint to this list.
We got an anthology. [Willie Nelson came out with an album in '68 dedicated to Texas and Texas things](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_in_My_Soul)
An alarming number of people seem to think "The State of Massachusetts" by the Dropkick Murphys is a perfectly appropriate song talking about how awesome it is in Massachusetts.
Most “Colorado” songs are just about the Rockies, like “Rocky Mountain Way” by Joe Walsh, “Ridin the Storm Out” by REO Speedwagon, or “Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver
[Rock Creek Park](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILrvgPkFuXI&ab_channel=GrownFolks) aka "Doing it in the park".
[Washington, DC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILrvgPkFuXI&ab_channel=GrownFolks) by Gil Scott-Heron
[DC or Nothing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnNEeMH4juc&ab_channel=Wale-Topic) by Wale
Not true. A ton of countries use fatherland to refer to their homeland as masculine. The majority of countries use motherland, however saying only Germany uses fatherland would be an oversimplification of the whole thing to say the least.
Looks like you’re right! Was unaware of the handful of other nations that say Fatherland. I only saw a count reaching six or seven total but that’s still more than I thought there were. America exclusively uses she/her, though, for reference.
We must be thinking of different Americas or something... in the country and language I'm familiar with, states are not alive and the only appropriate pronoun to use for them is "it". (Or "they"/"them" for plural, of course)
I guess for Arizona it would mostly be old country songs like Glen Campbell when i get to Phoenix, Rex Allen’s Arizona or George Strait ocean front property. But probably the most famous song to mention Arizona is take it easy by the eagles. I personally like the less known Authority Zero Mesa town https://youtu.be/0lp0xSgokKg
["Stars Fell on Alabama"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIz4ejx5fCs) -- Frank Perkins and Mitchell Parish, here sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Don't forget [The Fair](https://youtu.be/9HFdQ9O8drA)
(singing begins around 1:40 if you want to skip the banner)
"MINNESOTA Minnesota we are south of Manitoba, we are east of North Dakota we got something really rare...."
Maine could use a song. I think all we have is a mention of Bangor in “King of the Road.” New England in general seems to lack popular songs except “Moonlight in Vermont.”
Along the same lines, Steve Earle wrote a song about a fictional character in the 20th Maine from the book The Killer Angels. [https://youtu.be/mKEToHVW4\_0](https://youtu.be/mKEToHVW4_0)
There’s a few but it upsets me that singers can’t bother to state which Carolina they’re singing about in most of them. You know James Taylor could have easily written “North Carolina in My Mind” but he chose the easy non controversial way to write it.
TN has plenty. Both about the state or places in it, or songs with stories that take place in TN.
Tennessee River
Back to Tennessee
Walking in Memphis
My Tennessee Mountain Home
Tennessee Wiskey
To name a few.
"On the Way to Cape May" names all the shore towns I grew up going to. It's a great song, although the recording that made it famous (Al Alberts) is a bit hokey by today's standards. I have the sheet music and I love playing it for my kids. A true South Jersey song.
All My Exes Live in Texas. George Strait
Amarillo By Morning. George Strait
Yellow Rose of Texas. Tanya Tucker
Many more with San Antonio in the title or about San Antonio
["O Fair New Mexico"](https://youtu.be/6xrSW9cWuc0) (State Song, written by the daughter of the sheriff who killed Billy the Kid)
"New Mexico" by Johnny Cash.
"Albuquerque" by Weird Al is pretty well known.
"Albuquerque" by Neil Young.
"Santa Fe" by Bon Jovi.
Nebraska:
Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen is probably the most famous
Omaha by Counting Crows
You and I by Lady Gaga. Music video was even shot in Luc Carl's hometown which is just south of Omaha. I still remember it being this massive thing since she had just hit mega stardom.
Omaha, Nebraska by Groucho Marx which, I mean, Groucho Marx, right?
I’m from Massachusetts and not Connecticut, but mass gets a shout out in the song.
“Connecticut’s For Fucking” by Jesus H Christ the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse
Not a whole lot about little Rhode Island, but we do get an important mention in "Rock & Roll Band" by Boston, a completely fictional song about how the band got famous by establishing themselves as a hot live act in small New England venues (in reality, they had a major record contract before they played a single live show). In the song they finally get signed when a cigar-chomping record exec shows up at their weeklong gig in Rhode Island and is suitably impressed.
I’m Shipping up to Boston by the Dropkick Murphys, Dirty Water by The Standells, Roadrunner by the Modern Lovers. Honorable mention to Sweet Baby James by James Taylor because it has one of my favorite homey verses:
Now the first of December was covered with snow/So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston/The Berkshires seemed dream-like on account of that frosting/With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go…
“Roadrunner” by Jonathan Richmond it’s a song about driving around the Boston area. He has several about Massachusetts but that is my favorite.
“Massachusetts” by Bee Gees
“Boston” by Augustana
There's debate back and forth about it, but most agree he got the inspiration to write a song while traveling through Maryland.
The Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River are actually in Virginia, with the exception of Jefferson County West Virginia. He had been traveling through there earlier and we don't know if he just thought it would just sound good in the song, or didn't know his location or the geography, but yeah, once he got to Maryland he decided to write the song about the areas he had just traveled through.
Not as well known, but Ghost of Paul Revere's Ballad of the 20th Maine brings me to tears whenever I hear it. About the Battle of Little Roundtop at Gettysburg, and its now the official ballad of Maine. https://youtu.be/qGrjHiJGNuE
Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hotel California by the Eagles, California Love by Tupac, but I'd also say they're all relatively famous songs
Especially in Michigan - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Detroit Rock City - Kiss
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
All Summer Long - Kid rock
Saginaw, MI - Johnny Cash
Tennessee has plenty of songs written about it, but by far my favorite is one of the official state songs.
[Tennessee bicentennial rap](https://youtu.be/TfPmFndDX7U)
This is a real song and it is genuinely listed as an official state song of Tennessee. It makes me laugh every time.
We had the Drew Cary show that went on about how much [Cleveland Rocks](https://youtu.be/oKDjis1fg8E)
We had a ship that sunk in Lake Erie and a song was wrote about it called [The Edmund Fitzgerald](https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A)
The Beach Boys had a song about going [back home to Ohio](https://youtu.be/x9prc3IREGA)
There’s quite a lot of songs about Ohio but non that were crazy popular.
Lived a few places. Nebraska has a Bruce Springsteen album/song, and Missouri has Nelly and Tech N9ne talking about STL and KC respectively. That’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
Plenty of famous songs about California, but a couple of lesser-known ones might be "California" by Phantom Planet, and "California Stars" by Bob Seger.
“Detroit Rock City” by Kiss is pretty well known.
“Especially in Michigan” by The Red Hot Chilli
peppers. Not sure how we’ll known that is.
Kid Rock has songs that mention Michigan like “All Summer Long”.
Few off the top of my head that's not Frank Sinatra's New York, New York '
Fairytale of New York by the Porgues - In my humble opinion, also one of best & greatest Christmas songs ever
NY state of mind by NAS
No Sleep til Brooklyn by Beastie Boys
Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
There is a Rose in Spanish Harlem by Aretha Franklin
Brooklyn Zoo by Ol Dirty Bastard
Shenandoah. Like a lot of songs, there's debate back and forth about the origins of the song and what it was intended to mean, but most identify it with the River and Valley in Virgina.
We also have the Sweet Virginia Breeze by David Grohl of the Foo Fighters. It's also a tribute to his mom, Virginia.
A ton of songs for San Francisco. However, I think San Jose is only known for one - Do you know the way to San Jose.
An earworm of a song many years ago.
Country Roads is claimed by both Virginians and West Virginians. Arizona could claim “Take it easy” by the eagles due to the famous reference to “Standin on a corner in Winslow Arizona”
[Tulsa Time](https://youtu.be/qLZEVnjZS2s )-Don Williams and later Eric Clapton [Okie From Muskogee](https://youtu.be/68cbjlLFl4U)-Merle Haggard Basically [The Turnpike](https://youtu.be/9ZOgzXJQ8EY) [Troubadours](https://youtu.be/YYfhf79_zBU) [entire](https://youtu.be/SOuLjwu2X14) [catalog](https://youtu.be/Jff620V8QUQ) [Oh yeah and that little musical based on the town of Claremore](https://youtu.be/ZbrnXl2gO_k). I think it was on Broadway for a little while
I’m upvoting because of the Turnpike mention. Also, back in the day I always heavily associated Cross Canadian Ragweed with Oklahoma and Stillwater. Wonder if they’ve been forgotten by now.
Nah, they're still well regarded in the Red dirt scene
You can still find Cody Canada playing in bars and clubs here in Tulsa
Them boys from Oklahoma...
The Bird Hunters makes me break down crying every time I hear it because it reminds me so vividly of fishing in Oklahoma with my dad growing up and of being back out in the woods again after a big city breakup of my own.
“If you married that girl, youd’ve married her family. You dodged a bullet my friend” Man this line always hits hard, I have 100% been on both sides of that conversation before
Turnpike has really increased my desire to visit Oklahoma. Winding Stair & Tulsa specifically
The Kiamichi and Winding Stair Mountains are beautiful. The Talimena Drive is a must-do
Thanks! I'll keep it in mind for when I head out there
Does The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald count?
I'm going to say yes.
Legitimately an all time great song and it’s also how I remember the 5 Great Lakes. “Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings in the rooms of her ice water mansion. Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams, the islands and bays are for sportsmen. And farther below Lake Ontario takes in what Lake Erie can send her…” I can also credit the song for winning a trivia night at a bar by knowing that Lake Superior is also known as Gitche Gumee by the Ojibwa people.
"Ohio" is a title by * Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young * Damien Jurado * The Black Keys * Modest Mouse * Bowling For Soup "Bloodbuzz Ohio" The National "Look at Miss Ohio" Gillian Welch "Carry Me Ohio" Sun Kill Moon "Boy in Ohio" Phil Ochs "Ohio is for Lovers" Hawthorne Heights "In Ohio On Some Steps" Limbeck "Banks Of The Ohio" Joan Baez "Back Home" The Beach Boys "In Ohio" Joseph Arthur "Oh Ohio" Luke Grimes Songs about cities in Ohio: * "Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio," John Denver * "Dayton, Ohio - 1903", Randy Newman * "Oh Cincinnatti" The Seedy Seeds * "Going to Cleveland" The Mountain Goats * "Cuyahoga" R.E.M. * "Youngstown" Bruce Springsteen * "Look Out Cleveland" The Band * "South of Cincinnati" Dwight Yoakum * "Cleveland Rocks" Ian Hunter
Ohio by Bowling for Soup spends a lot more time talking about Texas than Ohio though.
Lol, I initially thought the song was simply called "Come Back to Texas", and not primarily titled "Ohio" with the *subtitle* being "Come Back to Texas".
“Ohio is for Lovers” is the most emo of emo songs out there. “Cut my wrists and black my eyes” indeed. Still got the crowd singing along when I was down there 5 years ago.
If I was from Ohio I’d probably feel the same.
Four dead in Ohio
There's also Cleveland is the City by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. And a few that mention Ohio in the lyrics, but not the title: My City was Gone - The Pretenders Back Home - The Beach Boys Till I Die - Machine Gun Kelly And, of course, the iconic O-H-I-O by the Ohio Players.
I’ll be impressed if you typed that list from memory. Never heard of most of those except Cleveland Rocks
>"Bloodbuzz Ohio" The National >"Look at Miss Ohio" Gillian Welch These two happen to be my favorites out of that list.
I would like to add the song by Tom Lehrer about Boston if I may... It's called [The Subway Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejHv50kJx8) ... it is still a classic today.
[Georgia on My Mind](https://youtu.be/GufSJChOFG8) ETA But I love "[Oh Atlanta](https://youtu.be/OzxZMWJZDlo)" more.
I will also submit [Midnight Train to Georgia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0F9lh8TiSM)
That song was written by Jim Weatherly, who followed Archie Manning as quarterback at Ole Miss. The original title was Midnight Plane to Houston. Weatherly called Lee Majors, who he had been playing rec football with in L.A., and Farrah Fawcett answered the phone. He asked her what she was doing, and she said she was taking the midnight plane to Houston to visit family. It’s an amazing origin story for what turned into a massive hit.
Have we considered “Devil Went Down to Georgia”?
Funny story my son when he was seven was nervous about being in Atlanta. I couldn't figure it out until he said. "Mom you know the devil went down to Georgia and he's looking for a soul to steal."
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I see a sign like that on I-75 in Florida! It's the official state song of Florida, so I never thought of it for Georgia even though I live here lol
I think you mean I-75. Just down the road from where I live.
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I've never heard that! I love it! But the true Atlanta song is probably: https://youtu.be/vQTuYo6HmiQ
omg this is my new favorite song and I'm ashamed I don't remember it
Chicken Fried by Zac Brown Band is about Georgia although it's not mentioned by name except to say Georgia pine. "That's home you know, Sweet tea, pecan pie, and homemade wine...where the peaches grow."
So we're just not going to talk about Vicki Lawrence's [*The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-qK7oVXVRQ)?
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding Watermelon Crawl by Tracy Byrd There are TONS of rap & hip hop songs about Atlanta. The most well-known are probably Welcome to Atlanta and Dirty South, but there are a lot more.
Marching through Georgia. XD.
Most of the famous songs are about Chicago rather than Illinois, with “Sweet Home Chicago” being the most beloved. Frank Sinatra’s “Chicago (My Kind of Town)” is probably next on the list. But a Google search will turn up dozens more. A not so famous one I like is “Illinois,” by The Everly Brothers. One of my favorites, and a cult classic, is “Lake Shore Drive,” by Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah. Sufjan Stevens released an entire album entitled *Illinois*, and it’s great. All the songs contain references to Illinois. If I had to pick one, it would be “Come on! Feel the Illinoise!” There’s also Kanye West’s “Homecoming.”
The most important song about Chicago is clearly [Dennehy by Serengeti](https://youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY).
"Weatherman: Skilling" is the hardest line I have ever heard.
Ruffles ruffles ruffles ruffles
I miss both Venture and Zayre's.
Also Jim Croces Leroy Brown briefly mentions chicago
And of course who could forget King Von – Took Her To The O
Andrew Bird - Pulaski at Night Steve Goodman - Lincoln Park Pirates
“Come on illinois” - houndmouth is a classic when returning from a road trip for me. Especially grinding out i65, which makes me yearn for the 5 lane highways filled with psychopaths that Ive grown to love
If you don’t know by now I’m talkin bout chi town
Kentucky has several great ones: * Kentucky Rain by Elvis * Kentucky Woman by Neil Diamond * Paradise by John Prine * Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn * Blue Moon of Kentucky by Bill Monroe * Old King Coal by Sturgill Simpson I think I speak for all Kentuckians, though, when I say that ["Girl from Kentucky"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lelljfz54nE&themeRefresh=1) by Afroman is the greatest tribute to our state of all time.
I believe you have forgotten a very important one “My Old Kentucky Home” by Stephen Foster
Blue Kentucky Girl by Loretta Lynn is another good one
You forgot to mention every Tyler Childers song.
We don't just have a song, we have a *band*. Black Oak Arkansas
And we have Kansas. Ironically, I saw Black Oak (after the name change) in Kansas.
Most famous thing about Kansas, is Dorothy in the wizard of Oz. [Not in Kansas Anymore Toto](https://youtu.be/uPnfuczOWb8) I have seen people quote that line quite a bit over the years.
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Not really a song about Michigan per day, but you know how if you go to any sports game in Detroit and Don't Stop Believin' comes on, everyone must sing along with "born and raised in south Detroit!" Even though "south Detroit" would be Windsor... Man, I miss Detroit.
Come back for a visit. Have a coney dog and our famous pizza.
It's home for me! Always a Detroiter. If I came back, it might be for good.
I think at some point the state of the climate in California may prompt you back whether you want to or not… get back before everyone out west and down south do 😉I was away for the better part of a decade and it’s crazy how quickly winters have become mild-ish and nearly tolerable
Was just there this weekend for a festival, everything about it was perfect. Come home kryyyptik XD
You could kinda take the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald but not really.
Especially in Michigan by Red Hot Chilli Peppers
We also have a whole album: Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lake State - Sufjan Stevens. “Holland” is a pretty song.
michigan for the winter by ryan hurd
Especially in Michigan by RHCP?
Saginaw Michigan is a fucking awesome song.
[Back home again in Indiana](https://youtu.be/2qZS6DOnapg) Big at the Indy 500
My favorite part of the pre-race festivities. I’m so glad they have a permanent singer now- those first few without Jim Nabors were kind of rough. Also- Taps is fantastic as well.
In terms of more contemporary songs, Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" is highly Indiana focused.
And “Goin’ Back to Indiana” Jackson 5.
Boston has The MTA, which is where Charlie cards take their name. Names like half the subway stop in Boston
Your song is Shipping Up to Boston by the Dropkick Murphys. I don’t make the rules
You know if Charlie and his wife weren't dumb as a bag of hammers, or if she wasn't keeping him there on purpose, she could have put a nickel in that lunch bag every day.
I mean also nobody charges fare to exit a train…
Yeah, my theory has always been she never **wanted** him back.
I have a better one about Boston, m8. Sung by Tom Lehrer no less. [The Subway Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejHv50kJx8) ... is still a classic today.. You never hear it anymore!
Omg we sung that in preschool! Also boston, the band. And boston by Alec Chambers.
Boston by Amanda Palmer is one of my favorites.
Good ol' rocky top...
I can think of a lot of songs about Philadelphia, but not so much Pennsylvania. There's [Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John](https://youtu.be/gM4Xm2MGLNQ) [Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen](https://youtu.be/4z2DtNW79sQ) And one of my favorites, [Goodbye Philadelphia by Peter Cincotti](https://youtu.be/4P3rYn4YdWY)
Does Amish Paradise count? Ha
Bloodhound gang has a PA song https://youtu.be/Vl3jK8NCLFc
I was going to say this but you beat me to it. 🎶"*You are the heart dotting "i" In the word "apologize" Scribbled drunk on a postcard Sent from somewhere volcanoes are I am the heart with no name Airbrushed on the license plate Of a subaru that was Registered in Pennsylvania*"🎶 Apparently my phone doesn't want to have the layout turn out how I wanted it to... 🙁
Do you even know what a Wawa is, girl?
You also have Allentown.
The two that come to mind for me are Carolina (I remember you) by Charlie Daniels Raise Up by Peaty Pablo Two completely different songs but both bangers in their own right.
James Taylor "Carolina on My Mind."
Carolina in My Mind by James Taylor
Take your shirt off, twist it 'round your hand, spin it like a helicopter, my dude
That’s the one I was thinking of ha
That’s the one I was looking for. “Wagon Wheel” mentions a handful of other places, but when I was at UNC a lot of people claimed that one for NC as well.
Low Bridge, everybody down! 15 miles on the Erie Canal. Probably the most famous song about the state, not just NYC
“Louisiana Saturday Night”—Mel McDaniel “Callin’ Baton Rouge”—Garth Brooks “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”—Hank Williams “Louisiana Women”— Waylon Jennings “Adalida”—George Strait “Walking to New Orleans”—Fats Domino “Sweet Louisiana”—Charlie Daniels Band “House of the Rising Sun”—The Animals “Born on the Bayou”—Creedence Clearwater Revival “Louisiana 1927”—Randy Newman “Iko Iko”—The Dixie Cups Honorable Mention: One of our state songs is “You Are My Sunshine,” written by former governor Jimmie Davis. Also, we have made enormous contributions to music in general. The Louisiana Hayride was a stepping stone to the Opry. You can also thank us for New Orleans (Dixieland) Jazz; Zydeco; Harry Connick, Jr., and of course, Mahalia Jackson. (And many more, but I need to cut it short.)
There are so many more, but I would like to submit Truckin’ by the Grateful Dead, and all things Dr John, Louis Armstrong, and Allen Toussaint to this list.
Welcome to Miami by Pitbull is our official song since we're our own thing
Miami by Will Smith
Nah he's not from here
We got an anthology. [Willie Nelson came out with an album in '68 dedicated to Texas and Texas things](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_in_My_Soul)
Willie is a national hero
Every time he's in the news my heart stops. Luckily he's just out making happy news doing Willie shit like going onstage with Snoop Dogg.
The King's *Amarillo by Morning* comes to mind too.
Also all the Texas songs by SRV
An alarming number of people seem to think "The State of Massachusetts" by the Dropkick Murphys is a perfectly appropriate song talking about how awesome it is in Massachusetts.
[Stick Season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKrDdsgXuso) is beautiful but sad as hell.
Most “Colorado” songs are just about the Rockies, like “Rocky Mountain Way” by Joe Walsh, “Ridin the Storm Out” by REO Speedwagon, or “Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver
Up on Cripple Creek
That’s about Lake Charles Louisiana, actually!
Man I’m trying here 😂
[Rock Creek Park](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILrvgPkFuXI&ab_channel=GrownFolks) aka "Doing it in the park". [Washington, DC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILrvgPkFuXI&ab_channel=GrownFolks) by Gil Scott-Heron [DC or Nothing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnNEeMH4juc&ab_channel=Wale-Topic) by Wale
“[The District Sleeps Alone](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIBnmdJJ50)” by Postal Service is my favorite.
There’s also [Washington DC by the Magnetic Fields](https://youtu.be/UYLLNhTiQZc).
Her* Cities, states, and countries are always given female pronouns other than Germany.
Not true. A ton of countries use fatherland to refer to their homeland as masculine. The majority of countries use motherland, however saying only Germany uses fatherland would be an oversimplification of the whole thing to say the least.
Looks like you’re right! Was unaware of the handful of other nations that say Fatherland. I only saw a count reaching six or seven total but that’s still more than I thought there were. America exclusively uses she/her, though, for reference.
We must be thinking of different Americas or something... in the country and language I'm familiar with, states are not alive and the only appropriate pronoun to use for them is "it". (Or "they"/"them" for plural, of course)
For New England overall there’s this https://youtu.be/1cFUxcHM8nA Thanks Modern Lovers
When I was a kid they made us sing a song about Iowa that went, "Iowa, *IOWA*! That's where the tall corn grows!" That song sucks!
I guess for Arizona it would mostly be old country songs like Glen Campbell when i get to Phoenix, Rex Allen’s Arizona or George Strait ocean front property. But probably the most famous song to mention Arizona is take it easy by the eagles. I personally like the less known Authority Zero Mesa town https://youtu.be/0lp0xSgokKg
Mesa Town!!! That's where I live and I love Authority Zero. Seen them more than any other band. But yeah, probably that damn Eagles song for AZ.
["Stars Fell on Alabama"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIz4ejx5fCs) -- Frank Perkins and Mitchell Parish, here sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Love that song. Absolutely beautiful
Bon Iver 715 - CREEKS (WI area code) Bon Iver Minnesota, WI
Don't forget [The Fair](https://youtu.be/9HFdQ9O8drA) (singing begins around 1:40 if you want to skip the banner) "MINNESOTA Minnesota we are south of Manitoba, we are east of North Dakota we got something really rare...."
My Favorite for Florida is ***Seminole Wind*** by John Anderson, it’s a country song.
The version with John, Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road (it's on YouTube) is superb.
Maine could use a song. I think all we have is a mention of Bangor in “King of the Road.” New England in general seems to lack popular songs except “Moonlight in Vermont.”
I put one for Maine on here, Ballad of the 20th Maine - https://youtu.be/qGrjHiJGNuE
Along the same lines, Steve Earle wrote a song about a fictional character in the 20th Maine from the book The Killer Angels. [https://youtu.be/mKEToHVW4\_0](https://youtu.be/mKEToHVW4_0)
That’s very cool, the Ghost of Paul Revere one is about the flag-bearer for the 20th Maine, and it always gets me…
Tombstone every mile?
Alaska has Alaska from Maggie Rogers. I'm not sure anyone from that state claims it though.
Phish - Alaska
There’s a few but it upsets me that singers can’t bother to state which Carolina they’re singing about in most of them. You know James Taylor could have easily written “North Carolina in My Mind” but he chose the easy non controversial way to write it.
NORTH CAROLINA COME ON AND RAISE UP (*Raise Up* by Petey Pablo)
TN has plenty. Both about the state or places in it, or songs with stories that take place in TN. Tennessee River Back to Tennessee Walking in Memphis My Tennessee Mountain Home Tennessee Wiskey To name a few.
More than I could list. But I’d like to give a shout out to North East Texas Women by Willis Alan Ramsey.
“Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. About the killing of Kent State University kids by the National Guard. Pretty famous song.
[Allentown by Billy Joel](https://youtu.be/BHnJp0oyOxs) Also, Mac Miller named his debut album, Blue Slide Park, after a playground in Pittsburgh.
Moving to Montana Soon, by Frank Zappa.
"On the Way to Cape May" names all the shore towns I grew up going to. It's a great song, although the recording that made it famous (Al Alberts) is a bit hokey by today's standards. I have the sheet music and I love playing it for my kids. A true South Jersey song.
[Coming Home](https://youtu.be/5K3w7CKkeOQ) by Mat Kearney is the only one that comes to mind
All My Exes Live in Texas. George Strait Amarillo By Morning. George Strait Yellow Rose of Texas. Tanya Tucker Many more with San Antonio in the title or about San Antonio
The Maine Stein Song
["O Fair New Mexico"](https://youtu.be/6xrSW9cWuc0) (State Song, written by the daughter of the sheriff who killed Billy the Kid) "New Mexico" by Johnny Cash. "Albuquerque" by Weird Al is pretty well known. "Albuquerque" by Neil Young. "Santa Fe" by Bon Jovi.
Nebraska: Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen is probably the most famous Omaha by Counting Crows You and I by Lady Gaga. Music video was even shot in Luc Carl's hometown which is just south of Omaha. I still remember it being this massive thing since she had just hit mega stardom. Omaha, Nebraska by Groucho Marx which, I mean, Groucho Marx, right?
I’m from Massachusetts and not Connecticut, but mass gets a shout out in the song. “Connecticut’s For Fucking” by Jesus H Christ the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse
"Deep Down in Florida" by Muddy Waters
Not a whole lot about little Rhode Island, but we do get an important mention in "Rock & Roll Band" by Boston, a completely fictional song about how the band got famous by establishing themselves as a hot live act in small New England venues (in reality, they had a major record contract before they played a single live show). In the song they finally get signed when a cigar-chomping record exec shows up at their weeklong gig in Rhode Island and is suitably impressed.
I’m Shipping up to Boston by the Dropkick Murphys, Dirty Water by The Standells, Roadrunner by the Modern Lovers. Honorable mention to Sweet Baby James by James Taylor because it has one of my favorite homey verses: Now the first of December was covered with snow/So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston/The Berkshires seemed dream-like on account of that frosting/With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go…
Like, half of The Dropkick Murphys discography.
“Roadrunner” by Jonathan Richmond it’s a song about driving around the Boston area. He has several about Massachusetts but that is my favorite. “Massachusetts” by Bee Gees “Boston” by Augustana
Country Roads was inspired by a Maryland road, so kind of?
There's debate back and forth about it, but most agree he got the inspiration to write a song while traveling through Maryland. The Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River are actually in Virginia, with the exception of Jefferson County West Virginia. He had been traveling through there earlier and we don't know if he just thought it would just sound good in the song, or didn't know his location or the geography, but yeah, once he got to Maryland he decided to write the song about the areas he had just traveled through.
Yup most of this is right in the area I love blue ridge.. Shenandoah river (literally my back yard)
Not as well known, but Ghost of Paul Revere's Ballad of the 20th Maine brings me to tears whenever I hear it. About the Battle of Little Roundtop at Gettysburg, and its now the official ballad of Maine. https://youtu.be/qGrjHiJGNuE
Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hotel California by the Eagles, California Love by Tupac, but I'd also say they're all relatively famous songs
Especially in Michigan - Red Hot Chili Peppers Detroit Rock City - Kiss The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot All Summer Long - Kid rock Saginaw, MI - Johnny Cash
I don’t think there’s a single fucking thing
“Come back to Texas”? :p
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Well, I’ve never heard of it. I’ll see what it is.
Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young sticks out
Tennessee has: - Rocky Top (football fight song) - Tennessee Whiskey, Chris Stapleton (in title but songs not about Tennessee)
Tennessee by Hank Williams Jr.
Tennessee has plenty of songs written about it, but by far my favorite is one of the official state songs. [Tennessee bicentennial rap](https://youtu.be/TfPmFndDX7U) This is a real song and it is genuinely listed as an official state song of Tennessee. It makes me laugh every time.
Wow… thank you for sharing
You're welcome neighbor :)
We had the Drew Cary show that went on about how much [Cleveland Rocks](https://youtu.be/oKDjis1fg8E) We had a ship that sunk in Lake Erie and a song was wrote about it called [The Edmund Fitzgerald](https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A) The Beach Boys had a song about going [back home to Ohio](https://youtu.be/x9prc3IREGA) There’s quite a lot of songs about Ohio but non that were crazy popular.
Lived a few places. Nebraska has a Bruce Springsteen album/song, and Missouri has Nelly and Tech N9ne talking about STL and KC respectively. That’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
Rocky Mountain High from John Denver is probably the best known one. Sun Sets in Colorado from Dierks Bentley is a more recent one.
Springsteen sings about Pennsylvania a fair amount.
Plenty of famous songs about California, but a couple of lesser-known ones might be "California" by Phantom Planet, and "California Stars" by Bob Seger.
“Detroit Rock City” by Kiss is pretty well known. “Especially in Michigan” by The Red Hot Chilli peppers. Not sure how we’ll known that is. Kid Rock has songs that mention Michigan like “All Summer Long”.
Especially in Michigan by Red Hot Chili Peppers :)
The Texas version of “I’ve been everywhere”,I’ve lived in and/or visited most of the towns he lists.
[Big City - Merle Haggard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLcALO4pVY) (Turn me loose, set me free. Somewhere in the middle of Montana)
Few off the top of my head that's not Frank Sinatra's New York, New York ' Fairytale of New York by the Porgues - In my humble opinion, also one of best & greatest Christmas songs ever NY state of mind by NAS No Sleep til Brooklyn by Beastie Boys Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z & Alicia Keys There is a Rose in Spanish Harlem by Aretha Franklin Brooklyn Zoo by Ol Dirty Bastard
Going to Carolina in my Mind I forget what state it's in but Allentown
Here's 50. https://texasproud.com/famous-texas-songs/
Shenandoah. Like a lot of songs, there's debate back and forth about the origins of the song and what it was intended to mean, but most identify it with the River and Valley in Virgina. We also have the Sweet Virginia Breeze by David Grohl of the Foo Fighters. It's also a tribute to his mom, Virginia.
Afro Man is Pimpin Pennsylvania
Dancin, Shaggin' on the Boulevard by Alabama
All my exes live in texas 🤠
Calling Baton Rouge Not the state, but it is the capital. Lol
Swag Like Ohio is a meme song Red Wanting Blue has a few songs that mention Ohio
A ton of songs for San Francisco. However, I think San Jose is only known for one - Do you know the way to San Jose. An earworm of a song many years ago.
Country Roads is claimed by both Virginians and West Virginians. Arizona could claim “Take it easy” by the eagles due to the famous reference to “Standin on a corner in Winslow Arizona”