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The following is a list of songs about cities. It is not exhaustive. Cities are a major topic for popular songs. [1] [2] Music journalist Nick Coleman said that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else." [1] Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation.
A list of songs about towns. (See also: Category:Songs about cities) Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S. Songs about Saint-Tropez (6 P)
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The song is about contemporary American small town life. The narrator claims "things ain't like they used to be round here", and brings to attention that children are becoming lazy instead of working and also the dangers of today, claiming "momma locked the door last night for the first time in all of her years" and "the streets ain't safe for a bike to ride down."
Pages in category "Songs about cities in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The original idea for the song was that after each verse Russell Mael would sing a movie dialogue cliché, one of which was "This town ain't big enough for both of us", used in the 1932 film The Western Code. They dropped the idea of having different phrases and instead used only the one in the title.
"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (a character co-created and voiced by Bill Fries, along with Chip Davis) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US and is listed 98th among Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time. [1]
Song titles are enclosed in quotes. True titles of song cycles are italicized. Non-English song titles are not italicized. "Wenn ich in deine Augen seh '" from Dichterliebe—note that the trailing apostrophe and the ending quote are handled using the {} template, to insert some spacing between the characters without using an unsemantic space ...