Beautiful song.

I don't know why i never heard all the lyrics in this song. It is about Vietnam war. Written by Jimmy Webb .

By Earl Pickens

The Doors

I Left my Heart in San Francisco

... Ella Fitzgerald! George & Ira Gershwin, from the musical Pardon My English (1932).

“In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.”

Sorry, I couldn’t help it.

Tulsa Time by Don Williams
Please Come to Boston by Dave Loggins
I'm Shipping Up to Boston by the Dropkick Murphys
Moon Over Miami by Ray Charles
Midnight In Montgomery by Alan Jackson
Chattanooga Choo Choo by Glen Miller
The City of New Orleans by Steve Goodman
Blue Savannah by Erasure (although that's a name, not the GA city...)
New York Groove by Ace Frehley
Streets of Minneapolis/Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen
Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John
Los Angeles by Disasteradio
Sweet Home Chicago by the Blues Brothers
Only Living Boy in New York by Simon and Garfunkel
El Paso by Marty Robbins
Callin' Baton Rouge by Garth Brooks
Walking in Memphis by Mark Cohn
Birmingham Blues by ELO (of course, that's the first Birmingham, but work with me here...)
You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive by Brad Paisley

...when our sons played travel soccer.

They don't call it travel for nothin'.

I believe the group was the Bagatelles.

We got Married in a Fever - June & Johnny Cash -

“It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw”

From the musical Oklahoma

Being an SF native - also San Francisco - from the movie with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jeanette MacDonald

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My teeth ran like chiclets
Down the streets of San Antone

I had typed in, on my phone Chicklets, it was changed after to chickens....

It is a fun song, I heard it a lot around 75-6

Panic In Detroit- David Bowie
Detroit Rock City- Kiss
Albuquerque - Neil Young
L.A. - Neil Young

"I met this woman down in New Orleans"

The Monkees

Chuck Berry song

Also obscure "Portland Town" sung by Joan Baez. Most likely an old English ballad but we do have at least 2 Portlands - Maine and Oregon

Jane and Marilyn
"We're just two girls from Little Rock" from Gentlemen Prefer Blonds.

Hard-hearted Hannah , the vamp from Savannah

Its inspiration was the Korean War. The Kingston Trio later stole Adams song changing some words to make it a love ballad.

I always think of think song when I stop in Lodi to gas up and hope I dont get stuck.

Also "Midnight Train to Georgia" (lyrics - L.A. proved to much for the man...)

It never came about, but there was a period that she was looking for work up there. My sister and I sang that song so much we wore it out!

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I just spent 2 days in KCK visited 3 museums and camped to the north. (TWA museum). (Miniatures and toys museum, saw an article in fine woodworking 35 yrs. ago about it.) (A book found in the whitewater WI. library took me to the Arabia Steam boat museum.)

Born and raised in South Detroit….except there is no such place…

The Jayhawks

in PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania………

Dirty Water (Boston you're my home)
'Hot 'Lanta

By Elton John

Bruce Springsteen.

Lots of cities in them lyrics there

And if anyone thinks that's cheating, the lyrics mention L.A.

Now the Pennsylvania Western University—California.

But we still have Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in Indiana, PA (not to be confused with IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis -- pronounced "eewie pewie&quot .

I love that dirty water
Oh Boston you're my home

Chula Vista is the second largest city in San Diego County, Ca. This song was made a local favorite by a Charlie and Harrigan, a pair of radio DJs who provided comedy with rock-n-roll music, in the San Diego area in the 1970s.

The Eagles...
Take It Easy...

(That corner's really in Flagstaff, AZ -- Not Winslow... )

There are bronze statues of the Eagles, and a mural on the side of the brick building of the Flatboard slowing down to take a look..... In the middle where the streets come together there is a large Route 66 highway sign. It's a neat spot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standin%27_on_the_Corner_Park

Later versions by Bob Wills (1937), Louis Armstrong, the Osmonds, and many more.

Song refers to Dumas, Texas.

The Beach Boys - little old lady from Pasadena

I'm guessing lots of places mentioned in "California girls like Waikiki.

If you learn a little bit of background, it's funny to me -- originally, Billy Joel tried to write this about Levittown. He just couldn't make it interesting, so it was put on a back burner and came back as Allentown.

Now as one who grew up on Long Island, I find this story hysterical!

There weren’t any coal mines in Allentown for a start. Steel mills, for sure, but no coal. That was further north and west.

"We'll shuffle off to Buffalo" sung by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. I think in 42nd Street.

"...all them high-class ladies, down in New Orleans..."