List of songs about Sydney

Song listings

Annandale

• "Booth Street" Youth Group

Balmain

• "Any Day Above Ground" James Reyne
• "Darling St." Spit Syndicate
• "The Four Corners of the Earth" Weddings Parties Anything
• "Guess How Much I Love You" The Lucksmiths

Bellevue Hill

• "Somewhere in Sydney" Skyhooks

Beverly Hills

• "Naomi Campbell" 360

Blacktown

• "Blacktown" Miracle
• "Blacktown" The Numbers
• "Blacktown Boogie" Dragon
• "Blacktown to Bondi" Mental as Anything
• "Sunnyholt" Perry Keyes

Bondi

• "A Brief History" The Waifs
• "Blacktown to Bondi" Mental as Anything
• "Bondi" Elliott Weston
• "Bondi" Cog
• "Bondi '98" Dick Diver
• "Bondi Pier" Grateful Dead
• "Bondi Road" Dragon
• "Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea" Barry Crocker
• "Fall of Rome" James Reyne
• "I Will Not Go Quietly " The Whitlams
• "Rainbow's Dead End" James Reyne
• "Section 5 " Midnight Oil
• "The Waitress" The Waifs
• "Trying To Sneeze" Ben Lee

Botany Bay

• "Botany Bay"
• "Brylcream, Alcohol & Pills" Perry Keyes
• "Jim Jones at Botany Bay"
• "To the Shores of Botany Bay" The Bushwackers
• "The Fields of Athenry" Pete St John

Brighton-Le-Sands

• "Canada" Lazy Susan

Cabramatta

• "Cabramatta Sunrise" Dom Turner
• "I Hang Out with the Guys in Jet" Root!

Camperdown

• "Australia Street" Sticky Fingers
• "Rose of Camperdown" Holly

Centennial Park

• "Letter to Alan" Cold Chisel

Chatswood

• "Bring on The Change" Midnight Oil
• "I Hang Out with the Guys in Jet" Root!
• "I Wish Somebody Would Build A Bridge " Thirsty Merc
• "Koala Sprint" Midnight Oil

Chippendale

• "Strange Days in Chippendale" Richard Clapton

Circular Quay

• "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" Eric Bogle "Now I'm Easy".
• "If We Can't Get It Together" You Am I Hourly Daily
• "Reckless" Australian Crawl Semantics ; Paul Kelly Hidden Things; James Reyne Electric Digger Dandy; John Farnham ''I Remember When I Was Young''

Coogee

• "Coogee Boy" Perry Keyes
• "Mr Munroe" Mental As Anything
• "Wedding Cake Island" Midnight Oil

Darlinghurst

• "Boundary Street" Cold Chisel
• "Darling It Hurts" Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls
• "Darlinghurst Confidential" The Celibate Rifles
• "Darlinghurst Nights" The Go-Betweens
• "Darlinghurst Road" Noel Watson
• "Taylor Square" Weddings Parties Anything
• "Working Girls" by Redgum

Drummoyne

• "The Cicada That Ate Five Dock" Outline

Ermington

• "This Is Not My Town"

Erskineville

• "Bill from Erskineville" John Dengate
• "Erskineville" The Gadflys
• "Erskineville Nights" Youth Group
• "Sicilian Born" Graeme Connors
• "Siege of Union Street" Alistair Hulett
• "Someone's Dad" John Kennedy's 68 Comeback Special

Five Dock

• "The Cicada That Ate Five Dock" Outline

Glebe

• "Harry Was a Bad Bugger" Tex, Don and Charlie
• "Lauren from Glebe" Muscles
• "Purple Sneakers" You Am I Hi Fi Way
• "Ben Lee" Klinger

Hornsby

• "Houndog" Cold Chisel
• "No Place Like Normanhurst" Kiff vs. Spliff

Kings Cross

• "At the Piccolo Bar" Don Walker
• "Breakfast at Sweethearts" Cold Chisel Album Breakfast at Sweethearts
• "Cars for King's Cross" the Moles
• "El Alamein Blues" Catfish
• "From St Kilda to Kings Cross" Paul Kelly And The Messengers
• "Have You Ever Been to see Kings Cross?" Frankie Davidson with the Sapphires.
• "Hidden Things" Paul Kelly
• "Girls on the Avenue" Richard Clapton
• "Kickin' On" The Fauves
• "Kings Cross" The Bamboos
• "Kings Cross Ladies" Buffalo
• "Knee Length Socks" Urthboy
• "Letter to Alan" Cold Chisel
• "Manzil Madness" Rose Tattoo
• "Matilda No More" Kasey Chambers and Slim Dusty
• "Metho Blues" Cold Chisel
• "Plaza" Cold Chisel
• "Queen of Everyone's Heart" Perry Keyes
• "The Mansions" Cold Chisel
• "Young Girls" Don Walker

Lambton

Llandilo

• "Meth Labs and Daygos" 360

Lavender Bay

• "Long Jumping Jeweller * Little River Band

Leichhardt

• "Norton Street" * Raoul Graf

Manly

• "Coastal Kids" Bliss n Eso
• "Manly" Camperdown & Out
• "Misfits Cold Chisel
• "Reckless" Australian Crawl ''Semantics''

Maroubra

• "Coastal Kids" Bliss n Eso
• "Down on the Street with You" Perry Keyes
• "Stomping at Maroubra" Little Pattie

Marrickville

• "Miracle in Marrickville" John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong Single Red Eye Records
• "River of Tears" Kev Carmody, The Drones
• "Warren Rd" Custard
• "You sound like Louis Burdett" – The Whitlams

Matraville

• "Matraville Trees" by Perry Keyes

McMahons Point

• "Blues Point Road" by The Buoys

Mount Druitt

• "Home and Away" by OneFour

Narrabeen

• "Surfin' U.S.A." The Beach Boys

Newtown

• "Exile on King St" Spurs For Jesus
• "Ghost of Newtown" John Kennedy
• "God Drinks at The Sando" The Whitlams
• "King St" *John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong Single Red Eye Records
• "My Drug Buddy" The Lemonheads
• "Newtown Dreaming" * Mixed Relations
• "Newtown " Cuthbert and the Night Walkers
• "Peter Says " by John Kennedy
• "Rock'n'Roll Band and a Schooner of Beer" McBodybag
• "The Newtown Song"
• "12 Hours" The Whitlams
• "Year of the Rat" The Whitlams

Normanhurst

North Shore

• "North Shore Girls Get Off" David Beniuk
• "Somewhere in Sydney" Skyhooks

Paddington

• "Double on the Main Game" Perry Keyes
• "Oxford Street" Dorian Mode
• "The Paddo Sharps" Celibate Rifles
• "The Streets of Paddington" Eureka! with Dave Swarbrick

Palm Beach

• "Deep Water" Richard Clapton

Parramatta

• "Jack's Heroes" The Pogues & The Dubliners
• "Oodnadatta Parramatta" by Jim Conway
• "Parramatta Gaol 1843" Redgum
• "Parramatta Hot Rod Man" The Whiteliners, Satellite V, Gaitorbait
• "Sweeney" Slim Dusty
• "The Abattoir Sky" Perry Keyes
• "The Letter Home" Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet
• "Tomorrow" Cold Chisel
• "Two Cabs to the Toucan" Models

Pyrmont

• "Who Can Stand in the Way" Midnight Oil
• "What Sydney Looks Like in June" Alex the Astronaut

Quakers Hill

• “So Easy” Triple One, Matt Corby and thatboykwame

Randwick

• "Randwick Bells" Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls

Redfern

• "Ivy Street" The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records
• "The Day John Sattler Broke His Jaw" Perry Keyes The Last Ghost Train Home Album Laughing Outlaw – the song mentions several other Sydney suburbs
• "The Last Ghost Train Home" Perry Keyes
• "Warakurna" Midnight Oil

Rockdale

• "Cold Heart " by Custard

Stanmore

• "The Battle of Stanmore" Died Pretty

St Peters

• "St Peters" Camperdown & Out

Strathfield

• "Murder City Nights" Radio Birdman
• "Rookwood" The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records

Strawberry Hills

• "Strawberry Hills Forever" John Kennedy

Summer Hill

• "Summer Hill Road" The Executives Single Festival Records

Surry Hills

• "Green Ginger Wine" The Rumjacks
• "Incident on South Dowling" Paul Kelly

Sydney

• "A Tale of Two Cities" The Lucksmiths
• "A Reason for it All" Eric Bogle
• "Arrival at Sydney Harbour" Port Blue
• "Australia" The Kinks
• "Bradman" Paul Kelly
• "Bruce Went Down To Sydney" Col Elliott
• "The City Is Humming" 78 Saab
• "City of Lights"* Grant McFarland
• "Diamantina Drover" Redgum
• "Don't Go to Sydney" The Zimmermen
• "Fast Boat to Sydney" Johnny Cash
• "Found" Horrorshow
• "From Little Things Big Things Grow" Paul Kelly
• "From The Bush" Warumpi Band
• "Ghost Town" Cold Chisel
• "Go Farther in Lightness" Gang of Youths
• "Harbour Town" Icehouse
• "He's on the Beach" Kirsty MacColl
• "Inland Sea" Carus Thompson
• "The Inner West" David McCormack and the Polaroids Candy
• "I Wonder What They're Doing " Michael Thomas
• "I'll Be in Sydney Tonight" JR Williams
• "In the Valley" Midnight Oil
• "Khe Sanh" Cold Chisel Atlantic records Single
• "Larrikin Town" * Keith Glass
• "Lights of Sydney Town" Roaring Jack
• "Liverpool Street" Big Five
• "Melbourne Vs Sydney" by Dan Kelly
• "My City of Sydney" Tommy Leonetti, Mary Schneider, XL Capris, Frenzal Rhomb
• "Never Had So Much Fun" by Frenzal Rhomb
• "Okay Sydney, You Beat Me" by Nic Dalton And His Gloomchasers
• "Old Sydney Town" Alopi Latukefu & the Palermo Express
• "Power and the Passion" Midnight Oil
• "The Piss, The Perfume" Hayley Mary
• "Prague" Ruck Rover
• "Rep My City" Miracle
• "Ship My Body Home" Ben Lee
• "Somebody Else's Parking Lot in Sebastopol" by The Extra Lens
• "Somewhere in Sydney" Skyhooks
• "Sundays in Sydney" Dave Steel
• "Sydney" The Grinning Bellhops
• "Sydney Born Man" SCRA
• "Sydney City Ladies" Geeza, Laser Records Streetlife
• "Sydney From a 747" Paul Kelly & the Messengers, Mushroom Records Comedy
• "Sydney Girls" Rose Tattoo
• "Sydney Harbour Bridge" Justin Currie
• "Sydney Ladies", The Dingoes, The Dingoes
• "Sydney or the Bush" * Norma O'Hara Murphy
• "Sydney Song" Eskimo Joe
• "Sydney to Newcastle" The Middle East
• "Sydney Town" The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records
• "Sydney Town "* – Frank Hardy recorded by Gary Shearson
• "Then 'Til Now" Bliss N Eso
• "Tom Uglys Bridge" D. C. Cross
• "Town Hall Steps" The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records
• "Typically Sydney" The Deadly Hume
• "Wake Up Sydney" Allniters
• "What Sydney Looks Like in June" Alex the Astronaut
• "When the Blue Finally Came" The Wonder Years
• "Where You Wanna Go" K1
• "Whitlam Square" Died Pretty
• "The Winner Is...SYDNEY" Southend
• "You Gotta Love This City" The Whitlams ''Love this City''

Tamarama

• "Tamarama Doorslammer" * Killers on the Loose

Tempe

• "You Sound like Louis Burdett" – The Whitlams ''Eternal Nightcap''

Warilla

• "Song to Warilla" Geeza, Laser Records as a single from ''Streetlife''

Warwick Farm

• "Harry was a Bad Bugger" Tex, Don and Charlie

Waterloo

• "In the Backyard" Perry Keyes

White Bay

• "The White Bay Paper Seller" * Judy Small

Woolloomooloo

• "Hullabaloo" Absent Friends
• "Lanes of Woolloomooloo" John Dengate
• "Numbers Fall" * Cold Chisel
• "Ruby" Catfish
• "Sailors into Woolloomooloo" - Nathan Roche
• "Ticket in Tatts" Weddings Parties Anything
• "Woolloomooloo Lair" * The Bushwackers
• "Woolloomooloo Sunset" David McCormack and the Polaroids