List of songs about Birmingham

This is an incomplete listing, which may never satisfy any subjective standard for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

This is a list of songs written about the city of Birmingham:

• Gene Autry, "Birmingham Daddy"
• Rachard Farina, Joan Baez, "Birmingham Sunday"
• Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves, "Birmingham, Alabama"
• Blackhawk, "Postmarked Birmingham"
• Bruce Cockburn, "Birmingham Shadows", 1995
• Charlie Daniels, "Birmingham Bus Station", 1994
• Ani DiFranco, "Hello Birmingham"
• Tommy Dorsey, "Birmingham Bounce", 1946
• Drive-By Truckers, "Birmingham", 2002
• Duke Ellington, "Birmingham Breakdown"
• Erskine Hawkins, "Tuxedo Junction"
• Merline Johnson, "I Got a Man in a 'Bama Mine", 1937
• Tracy Lawrence, "Paint Me A Birmingham", 2004
• Leadbelly, "Birmingham Jail"
• Amanda Marshall, "Birmingham"
• John Mellencamp, "When Jesus Left Birmingham", 1993
• Robert Moore, "Sweet Birmingham" (first recorded by Taj Mahal)
• Randy Newman, "Birmingham"
• Phil Ochs, "Talking Birmingham Jam", 1965
• Pirates of the Mississippi, "Down and Out in Birmingham"
• Keith Whitley, "Birmingham Turnaround"
• Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) "Birmingham Blues", 1921

Birmingham is also mentioned in the following:

• Chuck Berry, "Promised Land" (later remade as a 1975 hit for Elvis Presley)
• Billy Joel, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
• Little Richard, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"
• Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
• Tom Waits, "Swordfishtrombone" (1983)
• Drive-By Truckers, "One of These Days"
• Andy Offutt Irwin, "Maribel"
• Birmingham J, "Alabama Anthem" (2005)
• Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish, "Stars Fell on Alabama", 1934
• Lyle Lovett, "I Can't Love You Anymore"
• Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake"

Source

• "List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 19 Mar 2006, 17:22 UTC. 19 Mar 2006, 19:09 [1].