List of songs about Sydney
This is a list of songs which mention or are about Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales, Australia, as well as the suburbs of Sydney.
Song listings
The list is ordered alphabetically by suburb and within suburb alphabetically by song title. Where known, the songwriters, performing artists and album or CD on which the track has appeared are listed. Some of the tracks listed appear on the Sony Music 2000 double-compilation CD Somewhere in Sydney – 30 songs from the Harbour City, which was compiled and conceived by Glenn A. Baker.Annandale
- "Booth Street" Youth Group
Balmain
- "Guess How Much I Love You" The Lucksmiths
Bellevue Hill
- "Somewhere in Sydney" Skyhooks
Beverly Hills
- "Naomi Campbell" 360
Blacktown
- "Blacktown" Miracle
- "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
- "Rainbow's Dead End" James Reyne
- "Section 5 " Midnight Oil
- "The Waitress" The Waifs
Botany Bay
- "Botany Bay "
- "Brylcream, Alcohol & Pills" Perry Keyes
- "Jim Jones at Botany Bay"
- "To the Shores of Botany Bay" The Bushwackers
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"
- "Erskineville"
- "Sicilian Born" Album "North"
- "Siege of Union Street" The Cold Grey Light of Dawn
- "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
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
- "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 Mushroom Records LP/CD "Post"
- "Girls on the Avenue" Richard Clapton
- "Kickin' On" The Fauves
- "Kings Cross" The Bamboos
- "Knee Length Socks" Urthboy
- "Letter to Alan" Cold Chisel
- "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
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
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
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! CD, Jammin' with Gypsy, 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
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
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
- "Arrival at Sydney Harbour" Port Blue
- "Australia" The Kinks
- "Bradman" Paul Kelly
- "The City Is Humming" 78 Saab
- "City of Lights"* Grant McFarland
- "Don't Go to Sydney" The Zimmermen
- "Fast Boat to Sydney" Johnny Cash
- "Found" Horrorshow
- "From Little Things Big Things Grow" Paul Kelly
- "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
- "Khe Sanh" Cold Chisel Atlantic records Single
- "Larrikin Town" * Keith Glass
- "Lights of Sydney Town" Roaring Jack
- "Melbourne Vs Sydney" by Dan Kelly
- "My City of Sydney" Tommy Leonetti, Mary Schneider, XL Capris, Frenzal Rhomb
- "Okay Sydney, You Beat Me" by Nic Dalton And His Gloomchasers
- "Old Sydney Town" Alopi Latukefu & the Palermo Express
- "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 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
- "Town Hall Steps" The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records
- "Typically Sydney" The Deadly Hume
- "What Sydney Looks Like in June" Alex the Astronaut
- "Where You Wanna Go" K1
- "Whitlam Square" Died Pretty
- "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
- "Ticket in Tatts" Weddings Parties Anything
- "Lanes of Woolloomooloo" John Dengate
- "Numbers Fall" * Cold Chisel
- "Ruby" Catfish
- "Ticket in Tatts" Weddings Parties Anything
- "Woolloomooloo Lair" * The Bushwackers
- "Woolloomooloo Sunset" David McCormack and the Polaroids
- "Sailors Into Woolloomooloo" - Nathan Roche