Songs about your home (town, country, whatever! Just where you're from!)

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Songs about your home (village, town, city, state -whatever! Just where you're from!)

i thought i'd start a thread for links to chords / videos / etc of songs about your home town -

I have found a few that I didn't know about before about my home town, Swansea in Wales, UK. (although I haven't had a good crack at them yet!)

Here is one;
Swansea Town - http://www.welshpedia.co.uk/wiki/wales/index.php?title=Swansea_Town

There's also this (not sure if it's about Swansea where I'm from or another..:confused:...nice all the same!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUpElXWVMj4 and for chords http://www.911tabs.com/link/?6827559


What ones do you guys have about 'home'? Would be cool to hear!!
;)
Steve
 
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"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bch1_Ep5M1s&feature=related
Chords: http://chordie.com/chord.pere/www.guitaretab.com/s/scott-mckenzie/110361.html

There's also Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," but I couldn't find ukulele chords for it online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKZzEXhlhfg

I'm from Boston, which doesn't seem to inspire many romantic songs, but did inspire the legendary "M.T.A."
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMSGrY-IlU
chords: http://chordie.com/chord.pere/www.allcountrytabs.com/tabs/kingston-trio/mta-10914.html

Interestingly, the Kingston Trio played its first gigs at The Purple Onion San Francisco, and two of its three original members were from Hawai'i. Does anyone recognize that four-string instrument being played by the guy in the middle?
 
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I'm from Boston, which doesn't seem to inspire many romantic songs, but did inspire the legendary "M.T.A."

I used to live in Boston. Let's not forget the Standell's "Dirty Water"!

Anyhoo, there are tons of songs about Nashville (or at least mentioning it). Here's one example.

I was actually born in Louisville, KY. Grandpa Jones did a good one about that town.

(Great thread idea, by the way!)

JJ
 
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Born and raised in the 808, need I say more . . .
 
I used to live in Boston. Let's not forget the Standell's "Dirty Water"

Yes, that famous love song to the Charles River. Now there's the new Boston classic, the Dropkick Murphys singing an old ode to the Boston Red Sox, "Tessie." It was played at the end of the movie "Fever Pitch" and apparently gets played at Red Sox home games.

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttVpqJTeVMU Filmed at Fenway Park!
chords: http://chordie.com/chord.pere/www.guitaretab.com/d/dropkick-murphys/53759.html
 
Well we did a gig on Australia Day (Jan 26th) at one of our local clubs and sang a number of Aussie classics including:

Waltzing Matilda
Botany Bay
Land Down Under
Khe Sahn
Still Call Australia Home
Advance Australia Fair
 
One of my favorites is Tom Waits' Jersey Girl. (Some people like Bruce Springsteen's version, but I prefer Tom's original by far.)

Other New Jersey-specific songs include Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and "My Hometown". Apparently Bon Jovi has a whole album called "New Jersey", and Fountains of Wayne did a bunch of Jersey songs, but they don't matter to me at all so I don't care too much about 'em.

Nothing about the area I live in (but that may change if I get around to writing one!).
 
You asked for it. Apparently if aliens came down from outerspace, Northampton is the place they'd go.

 
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Over the years I have written and recorded dozens of songs about my hometown of Portland and the Pacific Northwest.

Since the great Woody Guthrie is one of the few songwriters to have done the same thing, I'll share a tune he inspired.



It lacks ukulele, but I hope you enjoy my humble offering nonetheless.
 
Born and raised in the 808, need I say more . . .

eo kanaka, where in o`ahu? i've always thought about compiling a playing list of mele about the pu`uloa/`ewa region of o`ahu. i know only of a few.

one thing tho, is even though i wasnt a east side boy, ku`u home o kahalu`u, waimanalo, waikiki and lots of those 70s Hawaiian Renaissance songs really resonated with me. the Local Boy experience, no?

i had penned a simple hanohano mele about going to one`ula (hau bush) with my tutu as a child to pick up limu and to go surf. simple chord progressions filled with vamps and kaona (hidden meaning) that probably overloaded the song. i have the song somewhere, played it only to myself and my wife, but i know my tutu loved it.
 
I'm new to the uke (about a month) but not new to music and other instruments but I just arranged and tabbed our Canadian National Anthem - O Canada for something to do yesterday. I used Power Tab Editor for only the second time and after I was done I noticed a tabbing error in bar 11. I have not been able figure out any way of correcting the booboo. That doesn't seem to be an option in PTE 1.7.
 
http://www.huapala.org/Aloha/Aloha_Kuu_Home_Kaneohe.html

Aloha ku`u home a i Kâne`ohe
Ame nâ pali hâuliuli nâ Ko`olau

Noho aku i ka la`i ku`u home
`Upu a`e ka mana`o no nâ hoaloha

I laila mâkou uilani ai
Ame ka wai noenoe e pipi`i ana

Ho`okahi ka mana`o i kualono
Ame ka leo aloha e ho`okipa mai

Ha`ina `ia mai ana ka puana
Ame nâ pali hâuliuli o nâ Ko`olau



Greetings to my home in Kane`ohe
And the green cliffs of the Ko`olaus

Staying in the peace of my home
Bringing thoughts of friends

There we find pleasure
And misty bubbling waters

One thought in the mountain ranges
And the beloved voice of hospitality

Tell the refrain
Of the green cliffs of the Ko`olaus
 
eo kanaka, where in o`ahu? i've always thought about compiling a playing list of mele about the pu`uloa/`ewa region of o`ahu. i know only of a few.

one thing tho, is even though i wasnt a east side boy, ku`u home o kahalu`u, waimanalo, waikiki and lots of those 70s Hawaiian Renaissance songs really resonated with me. the Local Boy experience, no?

i had penned a simple hanohano mele about going to one`ula (hau bush) with my tutu as a child to pick up limu and to go surf. simple chord progressions filled with vamps and kaona (hidden meaning) that probably overloaded the song. i have the song somewhere, played it only to myself and my wife, but i know my tutu loved it.
Kalihi/Palama side close to Kapalama Canal and wen grad FHS. Eh, I dunno how accurate dis list stay, but go check 'um out (Oahu mele). Wen I really stahted listening to Hawaiian music, those were the songs I listened to. Moreso wen you stay away from da islands and much more appreciative of the land you love and grew up in.

Off subject, glad you decided fo stick around aftah da odda thread. I wen read yo post and I knew you was pissed. But just hang brah, some pepo just ignorant and indignant. Besides, need somebody fo talk pidgin wit on dis forum.
 
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