List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama
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This is a list of songs written about the city of Birmingham, Alabama:
- John Hiatt, "Train to Birmingham"
- Gene Autry, "Birmingham Daddy"
- Richard Farina "Birmingham Sunday", recorded by Joan Baez
- 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" (lyrics)
- Tommy Dorsey, "Birmingham Bounce", 1946
- Drive-By Truckers, "Birmingham", 2002
- Duke Ellington, "Birmingham Breakdown"
- Emmylou Harris, "Boulder to Birmingham"
- 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)
- David Lee Murphy, "Breakfast in Birmingham"
- Randy Newman, "Birmingham"
- Phil Ochs, "Talking Birmingham Jam", 1965
- Pirates of the Mississippi, "Down and Out in Birmingham"
- Josh Rouse, "Sparrows over Birmingham"
- Telluride, "Birmingham Tonight"
- 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)
- Bruce Hornsby, "Jacob's Ladder" (first recorded by Huey Lewis & the News, 1987)
- 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"
- Gator Boyz, "Alabama Anthem" (2005)
- Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish, "Stars Fell on Alabama", 1934
- Lyle Lovett, "I Can't Love You Anymore"
- Huddie Ledbetter/Ram Jam, "Black Betty"
