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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.
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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 .
"Famous in a Small Town" has a moderately fast tempo in the key of B major. The main chord pattern is B sus 2-E sus 2/B-F ♯ /B. [2] The narrator describes the simplicities of living in a small town, where everyone knows each other and no one needs to have their face in a magazine to be famous. Thus, everybody dies "famous in a small town."
"My Town" is a song by Canadian band Glass Tiger. Released in August 1991 as the fourth single from their third studio album, Simple Mission , Rod Stewart appears as a featured vocalist. Inspired by Celtic music , "My Town" was written by Glass Tiger bandmates Alan Frew , Alan Connelly and Wayne Parker, as well as Jim Cregan , who co-wrote two ...
A line in the song about a "crazy Asian war" and the time of the song's release led to the assumption that the song was about a veteran of the Vietnam War, though this was never stated in the lyrics. However, Tillis stated that the song was about a veteran of World War II. [3] "Ruby" was first recorded by Waylon Jennings in 1966.