Chickendoodle Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 (edited) We always think of American place names in songs as they are much more romantic sounding than ours - Phoenix, San Fransisco, Whichita, New York etc etc. What song has your town in it? Haven't heard it for years but on Radio 2 this morning they played David Bowie's The Laughing Gnome It features the immortal line: I put him on a train to Eastbourne, carried his bag and gave him a fag (Edited for stupidly calling the song Bridget the Midget instead of The Laughing Gnome ) Edited December 15, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Take me back to Castlebar. Take me back To Castlebar, in the county of Mayo It's the only place in Ireland; I'm longing for to go Where they greet you with a friendly smile and they bid you time of day, When I set me foot in old Mayo I never more will stray. Perhaps it should be 'Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner'......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Where I live doesn't even register in my mind it's so dull, hence the allotment and chickens. I can't imagine it ever featuring in a song but you never know. If you take London as a whole then yes! Hurrah! That makes me feel better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Yup Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross... Amongst many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I am sure Henley must be in a few,although I can't think of them. Its always mentioned in TV shows,movies & books. The actual village I live in won't be - most people in Henley have never heard of it,its so small Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I am sure Henley must be in a few,although I can't think of them.Its always mentioned in TV shows,movies & books. The actual village I live in won't be - most people in Henley have never heard of it,its so small The Boy knows where you live! he once dated a girl from round that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Where I used to live we had "Now Ernie had a rival, an evil-looking man, Called Two-Ton Ted from Teddington and he drove the baker's van. He tempted her with his treacle tarts and his tasty wholemeal bread, And when she seen the size of his hot meat pies it very near turned her head." "Ooops, word censored!"ody sings about Kendal but its Mint Cake was the first confection to conquer Everest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 We once ate Kendal Mint Cake while sitting up Pendle Hill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 We once ate Kendal Mint Cake while sitting up Pendle Hill! Blimey, and you survived Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 t'was a lovely day, so we hauled Rosie up there 'to see the witches' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerryegg Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I seem to remember a song called I've been everywhere which mentioned loads of places including Hereford. Don't remember liking it and can't remember the singer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy chickens! Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 The town I grew up in certainly does - couldn't be any less American either! 'Ilkley Moor Bhat'at' Which means Ilkley Moor without a hat; as children we loved the verses which end up with the person who dared go on the moor hatless, dead of a cold and buried, eaten by worms, then ducks, then we eat the ducks, so we will have eaten our hatless friend!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Witches on a hill? Real witches? Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 after thinking there was only one, which actually isn't one as its spelt Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) and not Salisbury, I've only gone and found 'Salisbury' by Uriah Heap!!! Never even heard of it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Witches on a hill? Real witches? Emma.x Yes! They were tried and executed in 1612 though - Pendle is famous for it's witches. And regarding my village being in a song Not much rhymes with Fleckney. It sounds like some weird infectious disease - hardly songworthy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 No but there is a chicken coop design named after my village, they advertise in Practical Poultry, all their designs are local villages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Does this count? Yo Ho, Yo Ho, Yo Ho, Yo Ho, Yo Ho So, Try the life of a thief Just sample the life of a crook There isn't a boy Who won't enjoy A-workin' for Captain Hook The World's Most Famous Crook Then there's Dr Hook Two in one here: I often dream of trains when I'm alone I ride on them into another zone I dream of them constantly Heading for paradise Or Basingstoke or Reading I often dream of trains when I'm awake They ride along beside a frozen lake And there in the buffet car I wait for eternity Or Basingstoke or Reading I often dream of trains till it gets light The summer turns to winter overnight The leaves fall so suddenly The sun sets at four o'clock Exactly what I'm dreading I often dream of trains when I'm with you I wonder if you dream about them, too Maybe we'll meet one night Out in the corridor I'm waiting for you, baby Baby baby baby I take it Basingstoke and Reading are not up to Paradise then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 well, rumour has it that Paul Simon wrote 'homeward bound' from a railway station not far from me and i was born in Liverpool which has plenty of songs written about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Naive by The Kooks I know, she knows that I'm not from New Oscott Everyone round here thinks its that Listen to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I didn't think there would be any as it's not easy to rhyme with . It seems I was wrong . Edinburgh Castle, Waterboys Leaving Home, the Proclaimers (also Sunshine on Leith if that counts!) Edinburgh Man, the Fall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGirlsMum Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 We have our very own Floral Dance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I come from a town called Neath which is indirectly in lots of songs... anything with the words underNEATH, beNEATH etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I am sure Henley must be in a few,although I can't think of them.Its always mentioned in TV shows,movies & books. The actual village I live in won't be - most people in Henley have never heard of it,its so small The Boy knows where you live! he once dated a girl from round that way. Oh really, I wonder if I know her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Thanks I have "Underneath the Arches" music hall song going around my head and I can't remember all of it so it's the same bit each time! Arghhhh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 No songs that I can think of although good old Will wrote about a few of the villages around Stratford "Hungry Grafton, Dudging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom and Drunken Bidford" but none of the ones I've lived in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
