List of songs about Birmingham

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This is a list of songs about Birmingham, England, with lyrics in brackets where appropriate.

  • Pato Banton – "Handsworth Riot"
  • Broadcast – "Michael A Grammar" (Michael, wake up we're going back to Chelmsley Wood)
  • Electric Light Orchestra – "Birmingham Blues" from Out of the Blue
  • The Fall – "Birmingham School Of Business School"
  • Go Kart Mozart – "Mrs Back-To-Front and the Bull Ring Thing"
  • Rob Halford – "Made in Hell" (Metal came from foundries where the islands sound unfurled/The Bull Ring was a lonely place of concrete towers and steel)
  • Johnny Foreigner – "Sometimes in the Bullring"
  • Marie Lloyd – "Oh! Mr Porter" (Oh! Mister Porter, what shall I do?/I want to go to Birmingham and they're taking me on to Crewe)
  • Misspent Youth – Betcha Wont Dance/Birmingham Boys (Big Bear Records 1979 BB20)[1]
  • The Pogues – "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six"
  • Red Dragon and Flourgan – "Follow Me" (Follow we go London and Birmingham city)
  • Sex Pistols – "Bodies" (She was a girl from Birmingham/She just had an abortion)
  • The Smiths – "Panic" (Panic on the streets of London/Panic on the streets of Birmingham)
  • Ire-Ish - "Fairytale Of New Street

(It was Christmas Eve Bab, In The Square Peg, Last orders had just gone, In 0121)

  • Steel Pulse – "Handsworth Revolution"
  • The Streets – "Turn The Page" (The hazy fog over the Bull Ring/The lazy ways the birds sing)
  • Tippa Irie – "It's Good to Have the Feeling You're the Best" (Well I control the north, south, east and west/In London and Birmingham one have to confess)
  • Mr Hudson and the Library – "2x2" (Two by two the lovers slip, Through the frozen streets of Birmingham)
  • Jon Wilks – "I Can't Find Brummagem" (This Digbeth here I wouldn't know/I miss the rogues of Brummagem) (Traditional song rewritten for modern Birmingham)

References

  1. ^ Ogg, Alex (2006). No more heroes : a complete history of UK punk from 1976 to 1980 : (1. publ. ed.). London: Cherry Red. pp. 366–368. ISBN 1-901447-65-0.