Songs with many place names

Kokomo - The Beach Boys

The Animaniacs countries of the world song! This version is updated https://youtu.be/42aAaUlMXIk?

Keep On Rockin Me Baby by Steve Miller Band

"The Heart of Rock & Roll" - Huey Lewis and the News

"I've Been Everywhere" was written by the Australian singer Geoff Mack, using entirely Australian places. It was subsequently adapted by songwriters in many different countries.

Living in America James Brown CAlifornia Love Tupac Shakur

Dancing in the streets- covered by many, but Martha and the Vandellas

Area Codes - Ludacris ft. Nate Dogg

Sublime April 29, 1992 (Miami)

Willin’ - Little Feat: https://youtu.be/YYqfuf9k_Y4?si=ZxkaA11rjxnf5Lx1

Dani California - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Nelly, country grammar  From St. Louis to Memphis, from Texas back up to Indiana Chi-Town, K.C., Motown to Alabama L.A., New York Yankee sluggers to Hotlanta Louisiana, gettin paid off this country grammar Smokin' - in Savannah,

Comin' Home - City and Colour

truckers atlas by modest mouse

Chuck Berry's Promised Land is right up yer alley.

Going Nowhere Slow by the Bloodhound Gang

Jump On It - Sir Mixalot

Letter from America by the Proclaimers (if you're including Scottish place names🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿)

Petey Pablo - Raise Up mentions several cities and counties in North Carolina and The All Cities remix adds a bunch of states and cities to the hook, instead of just North Carolina. Nelly- Country Grammar

Ramblin Man by Lemon Jelly!!

The Guess Who - Running Back to Saskatoon.

Nations of the World - Yakko Warner

The Beautiful South - Rotterdam

Willin' - Little Feat. I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah

I Woke up in a Car by Something Corporate

Show Me What You Got - Limp Bizkit

California Girls -- Beach Boys Heart of Rock and Roll -- Huey Lewis and the News

Atmosphere - "Say Shh" 

Panic - The Smiths

Cities by Talking Heads. Sea Stories by Sturgil Simpson

Keep on Rockin Me by Steve Miller I went from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma. Philadelphia, Atlanta GA. Northern California where the girls are warm...

Well okay, you asked for it: Europapa [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiHFnmI8pxg&list=RDIiHFnmI8pxg&start\_radio=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiHFnmI8pxg&list=RDIiHFnmI8pxg&start_radio=1)

The Beach Boys had a few like Kokomo and Surfin’ USA.

*Flavor* - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Enya - Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)

The Animaniacs have you covered [The Nations of the World](https://youtu.be/V1508wboZXk?feature=shared)

April 26, 1992 by Sublime

Willin by Little Feat

Cities. Talking heads. Slower version by Phish.

Garden State Stomp by Dave Van Ronk made up entirely of New Jersey place names. New York’s My Home by Ray Charles compares NY favorably with a number of other notable US cities.

There's lots of songs about Canada and Canadian places: Northwest Passage – Stan Rogers Bobcaygeon – The Tragically Hip Wheat Kings – The Tragically Hip Runnin' Back to Saskatoon by The Guess Who Four Strong Winds by Ian Tyson

Truckin’ by the Grateful Dead

It's Grim Up North - KLF

België -het goede doel (its Dutch tho but it refers to many countries and even a few planets!)

[Lower 48 - The Gourds.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=988wG7siKb0)

Big River - Johnny Cash

"Alphabet of Nations" by They Might Be Giants [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6h7LEru69U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6h7LEru69U)

Pitbull's International Love

Harder than you think -Public Enemy

[Afroman - Mississippi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTLn6fN2xNs) He probably names every single city and larger town I. Mississippi. As somebody who grew up in Mississippi it was so awesome hearing him call out my little podunk town.

Billy Bragg - A13 Trunk Road to the Sea. Names the towns of south Essex along the eponymous road. Ian Dury - Billericay Dickie. Shoeburyness, Thanet, Burnham-on-Couch...

A Passage to Bangkok. RUSH.

If you don't mind french song there is "Vesoul" bty jacques Brel

A Passage To Bangkok: RUSH

Alberquerque -weird al https://youtu.be/JE37e1eK2mY?si=Tp5yP-L8LAnutBNI

Take it easy - the eagles

Me and Bobby McGhee

The Toronto Song by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.

*Say shh* - Atmosphere

The Slow Train by Flanders and Swann. It's a protest song, of sorts.  Lots of small town railroad stations were getting closed.  The song lists many of them, and laments how these cuts mark the end of an era.

Babyshambles - Albion

Gypsy - lady Gaga

Clearly Canadian- George Fox

Girl VII - St. Etienne https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=H1cb8UgW_Yc&si=wUb-3UVrs861ZYFE

Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys - Throw It Up

Steve Forbert's "Strange Names"

Fly Santa Fly by Jeremy Lister One of the few newer Christmas songs I wound up liking.

I Woke Up In A Car - Something Corporate

Yakko’s World is an all timer

Thug mentality - Krayzie Bone

Gypsy by Lady Gaga

Side note: Memphis is mentioned in more songs than almost any other city.

Coming Home - Cory in Colour Willing’ - Little Feat Where Have All The Good People Gone - Sam Robert’s Band

Pick a Red Hot Chili Peppers song.

Truckers Atlas - Modest Mouse

London Boy - Taylor Swift Barcelona - Ed Sheeran Amarillo Sky - Jason Aldean California Love - Dre and Tupac We Didn’t Start the Fire - Billy Joel Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus Welcome to Atlanta – Jermaine Dupri, Ludacris America - Simon & Garfunkel

Country roads John Denver

Bob Dylan’s great Blood on the Tracks album (1975) is full of them: > I’ll look for you in old Honolula [sic], San Francisco or Ashtabula > Idiot Wind, blowin’ like a circle around my skull / From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol [notice how both structures resemble giant skulls]

Leaning on a traveling song by Billy Strings name drops a few, not as many as your other examples

Jump On It - Sir Mix-a-lot: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDho2NQabL0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDho2NQabL0) And of course, you can't miss "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" by Rockapella: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9aDMuBjR7Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9aDMuBjR7Q)

Beastie Boys "Dedication"

(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 was written by Bobby Troup and first recorded by Nat King Cole’s trio in 1946.

Passage to Bangkok by RUSH

Rock'n Me Baby by Steve Miller Band "I went from Phoenix, Arizona All the way to Tacoma Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A. Northern California Where the girls are warm So I could be with my sweet baby, yeah"

Far, far away - Slade

Happened to have a playlist where the criteria is a mention of at least four specific place names. Wish I got in earlier, but some that I don’t think I’ve seen mentioned here yet include: ZZ Top - Jesus Just Left Chicago Grateful Dead - Promised Land (Chuck Berry cover?) Pop Muzik - M Speedway at Nazareth - Mark Knopfler South’s Gonna Do It Again - Charlie Daniels Band Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon Southern Cross - CSN Convoy - CW McCall And a Bang on the Ear - Waterboys (We’re Not) The Jet Set - G Jones, T Wynette Last Mango in Paris - Jimmy Buffett An American Dream - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Africa - Toto Where the Road Goes - Old 97s Wagon Wheel - OCMS (Dylan) Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra Swingin’ on the Moon - Mel Tormé Oliver’s Army - Elvis Costello Sulphur to Sugarcane - Elvis Costello Can o’ Pop - Steve Poltz (delightfully weird) Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - Four Lads, TMBG Sex is in the Heel - from the musical K**** Boots Sweet Dreams Melinda - Trey Anastasio What a Way to Go - Dallas Wayne

We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel.

Elvis - Guitar Man

"The Lumper" by The Decemberists

"Promised land" by Elvis

Kissin' Time by Bobby Rydell, covered by Kiss on their debut album.

"Rock city" by Damn Yankees

Promised land by chuck berry

"We Think the West Coast Is the Best Coast" by Mel Tormé, mentions many places in California.

Michael Franti and Spearfish *Rude Boys Back In Town*.

Gypsy by Gaga. Mentions about 10 or 11 places at least.

Wanted Man by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds https://youtu.be/iguND2vMxTk?si=5no4pCpokcGvxYYX

Elle King - exes and ohs

Kokomo

Girls Girls Girls by Motley Crue. Comin' To Your City by Big And Rich.

A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr. mentions a few places but conveys all of the US.

It's in Spanish, but Rosalía Reliquia from her album Lux

OhioIowaIdahoHawaii Highway - Heywood Banks

Perry Como - Delaware

Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land is Your Land’ describes the USA and lists a couple of places there. I reckon the sentiment applies everywhere. Guthrie also wrote ‘Shipping up to Boston’, but that only mentions Boston.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Weekend - Sammy Hagar

Brothers of the highway - George strait 40 hour week - alabama Everywhere - tim McGraw I dont know the name but theres a Josh Gracin song that references probably half the states Again, forget the name and its not necessarily place names but theres a Brad paisley song that mentions a ton of different colleges and their mascots

Does "Area Codes" count?

Going nowhere slow - Bloodhound gang

Vampire Weekend - Step

I know this against my will from a trip to Nashville. She's Country by Jason Aldean played at pretty much every bar on the strip and mentioned several southern states.

Ramones - Touring

Highway 80 (is a mighty good road) by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammar.

Wanted man - Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan

Let's Go Everywhere by Medeski Martin & Wood

I’ll give you a weird one… A League of Notions by Al Stewart.

"Goin Places" by The Jacksons

Beat Up Guitar by The Hooters

Marillion - The Invisible Man “Sheltering in doorways of Venice, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow, and Amsterdam”

Any song by Rancid pretty much names several places in it.

Tom Waits' Had Me a Girl. Tis a silly song, but def qualifies.

Travelin’ Man by Ricky Nelson (I think that’s the name..)

Nice to be out - Stereophonics I think

[Comin Home-City and Colour](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NjMsWarn8BI&list=RDNjMsWarn8BI&start_radio=1&pp=ygUaY29taW4gaG9tZSBjaXR5IGFuZCBjb2xvdXKgBwE%3D)

Wanted Man (Take 1) - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash

Route 66

I mean, this is a wild one, but in the UK we have a song called [Southside Riddim](https://youtu.be/5aKHUoIHZV4) by Southside Allstars which lists out basically every train station in South London

Truck Driver, by Scott H. Biram

Dancing in the streets

Big Enough - Kirin J Callinan lists off a bunch of countries towards the end... Plus it has the screaming cowboy.

Ladies Night - Kool and the Gang. They only mention by name two places. In-between is implied.

Streets of Bakersfield-Buck Owen’s

Dusseldorf by Regina Spektor lists a bunch of places in Europe

Going Nowhere Slow- Bloodhound Gang

Smooth Operator by Sade. We didn’t start the fire by Billy Joel