Line #219 Main/ListingCities


1	->''"We on Award Tour with Mohammad my man.\
2	Goin' each and every place with a mic in our hand.\
3	UsefulNotes/{{Houston}}, Delaware, [[UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC D.C.]], [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]]!"''
4	-->-- '''Music/ATribeCalledQuest''', "Award Tour"
5
6	A MusicTrope. So you're writing a new track and you want it to be a hit in Boston. One obvious way to do this is to make your song [[LocationSong all about how awesome Boston is]]. This creates a special connection with listeners in Boston.
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8	But what if you want your song to be a hit ''everywhere''? Since you can't write a song about how awesome every city in the world is, the next best thing is just to list off a bunch of random cities, regions, or whatever. This surprisingly popular tactic creates a momentary connection with people from many different places.
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10	A type of ListSong. Compare CityShoutOuts, when a live performer appeals to the audience by saluting their city.
11
12	----
13	!!Examples:
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15	[[foldercontrol]]
16
17	[[folder:Acid House]]
18	* The [=JAMs=]' (aka Music/TheKLF) "Grim Up North" lists towns in the north of England. No rhyming or anything.
19	** Also (as The KLF), the full-length version of ''America: What Time Is Love?'' has a lengthy section of [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to USA-an cities and states.
20	[[/folder]]
21
22	[[folder:Alternative Metal]]
23	%%* "Boom" by P.O.D.
24	[[/folder]]
25
26	[[folder:Alternative Rock]]
27	* Concrete Blonde's "Close to Home" lists a bunch of cities across the south of the United States - but none of them are home.
28	* "Going Nowhere Slow" by Music/BloodhoundGang lists an impressive amount of cities rather quickly.
29	%%* The first verse of Mayday Parade's "Get Up"
30	%%* Babyshambles' "Albion."
31	* "Flavor" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion lists several cities where "The Blues is number one."
32	[[/folder]]
33
34	[[folder:Blues-Rock]]
35	* Steve Miller's "Rock'n Me":
36	-->I went from Phoenix, Arizona
37	-->All the way to Tacoma
38	-->Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A.
39	-->Northern California
40	-->Where the girls are warm
41	-->So I could be with my sweet baby, yeah
42	* John Mayer rattles off the names of a few U.S. cities where "it's been a long night" in the chorus of "Who Says".
43	* "Peace Frog" by Music/TheDoors plays with this when Jim Morrison lists riots during the hippie/peace movement of TheSixties:
44	-->''"[[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank Blood in the streets of the town of New Haven.]]''
45	-->''Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice''
46	-->''Blood in my love in [[HeatWave the terrible summer]]''
47	-->''Bloody red sun of Phantastic L.A.''
48	-->''There's blood in the streets it's up to my ankles...
49	-->''Blood in the streets of the town of Chicago..."''
50	[[/folder]]
51
52	[[folder:Brazilian Rock]]
53	* Brazilian variations: band Music/OsParalamasDoSucesso lists three slums in the chorus for "Alagados" ("Alagados, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchtown Trenchtown]] [[note]]practically everyone hears this one wrong[[/note]], Favela da Maré") and singer Music/TimMaia names a lot of Rio de Janeiro beaches in "Do Leme ao Pontal" (besides the two in the title, "Flamengo, Botafogo, Urca, Praia Vermelha!"). He also names beaches throughout the Brazilian coastline in "O Descobridor dos Sete Mares".
54	[[/folder]]
55
56	[[folder:Classical]]
57	* The ''Deutschlandlied'' (Germany Song), which serves as the German NationalAnthem, has the following lines in its first stanza, here [[TranslationConvention translated for your convenience]]:
58	-->From the Meuse to the Memel,
59	-->from the Adige to the Little Belt.
60	** The problem: None of this four bodies of water do even touch with the [[UsefulNotes/TheBerlinRepublic contemporary German state]]. This is one of [[PatrioticFervor several]] [[ThoseWackyNazis reasons]] why this stanza [[CanonDiscontinuity isn't part of the official anthem]] anymore.
61	[[/folder]]
62
63	[[folder:Comedy/Parody]]
64	* "I'm From Delaware" by Todd Chappelle is a parody of Johnny Cash's cover of "I've Been Everywhere" and much like the original, lists all the cities and towns of Delaware.
65	* Music/TheAmateurTransplants, when doing gigs, parody this trope by singing a song about how much they love the city, where the city in question turns out to be something along the lines of "Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, Bournemouth and Crewe".
66	* "He Broke My Heart in Three Places" by Music/SpikeJones starts off with big cities (Seattle, Chicago, and New York) and ends up with a long fast list of small towns and other locations.
67	* Music/MitchBenn:
68	** His reaction to the Post Office deleting county names from its database was a song about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc2-v6vH_PE postcode areas]].
69	--->Too long it's been since I've last seen the hills of [=IV51=] [[note]] The Isle of Skye[[/note]],
70	--->And from the shores of [=LL54=] [[note]] Caernarfon[[/note]] for far too long I'm gone,
71	--->I long to wander over [=BA6=][[note]] Glastonbury's[[/note]] fields of green,
72	--->But I was stuck for years and years in [=SW16=] [[note]] Streatham and Norbury, London[[/note]].
73	** "The South Downs Cowboy" is about the eponymous cowboy travelling to various locations in the South Downs, with a final verse about how Mitch had to look them all up.
74	* Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie's "Toronto Song". Starts out on the subject of how much Toronto sucks, moves on to how much the rest of Ontario sucks, concludes with how much the rest of Canada sucks.
75	* Music/TomLehrer lapses into this for Russian cities in the middle of his song about the great Russian mathematician, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, on ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer''.
76	* Music/NinjaSexParty's "Road Trip" starts with a list of American cities, and the various sex acts that Danny Sexbang has performed there. It moves on to other countries, before ending up with Danny going to space to [[BoldlyComing have sex with aliens]], but then dying because he forgot to bring a space suit.
77	* Music/{{Fraktus}} have "[[FunWithAcronyms A.D.A.M.]]" ("All die armen Menschen"; "All those poor humans") which lists up 32 different places in Germany, just to pity the people who live there for living there and wonder why they do that in the first place.
78	--> In Gütersloh, Paderborn, Wuppertal, Oldenburg\
79	Da überall leben Menschen\
80	In Offenbach, Birkenfeld, Thüringen, Rosenheim\
81	Da überall sind sie zuhaus
82	* Sammy Kaye's clean version of "I Used to Work in Chicago" lists eight US cities and Toronto.
83	[[/folder]]
84
85	[[folder:Country]]
86	* "I've Been Everywhere": Probably the best-known song that features a where's-where of cities, the song rattles off more than 80 cities. Written by Australian country music artist Geoff Mack, the song originally listed Australian and New Zealand cities. Canadian artist Hank Snow rewrote the song to feature North American (and a few South American) place names, and his version has been covered by Lynn Anderson, Music/JohnnyCash, and others. Versions for countries elsewhere in the world exist as well.
87	* Second verse of "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood:
88	-->From the lakes of Minnesota
89	-->To the hills of Tennessee
90	-->Across the plains of Texas
91	-->And from sea to shining sea
92	-->From Detroit down to Houston
93	-->And New York to LA
94	-->There's pride in every American heart
95	-->And it's time we stand and say...
96	* Music/RascalFlatts does the 'general area' type in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Px90ie15FM "Me And My Gang"]].
97	* "Comin' to Your City" Music/BigAndRich. Notable for not only including bigger cities like Buffalo and L.A., but also including lesser known cities such as Cincinnati and Jefferson City.
98	* "Fly Over States" by Music/JasonAldean mentions several states including Indiana, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and other places such as Amarillo and The Badlands.
99	* Music/NealMcCoy's "The Shake" does this, in the middle of a song about [[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks booty-shaking]]: "New York, L.A., Houston, Tampa Bay, London, Tokyo, everywhere you go."
100	* The second verse of Music/GeorgeStrait's "If You Can Do Anything Else".
101	* Several country songs are lists of places that the singer wants to go with his or her lover. Among them are "You Can Sleep While I Drive" by Music/TrishaYearwood, "Take Me" by Lari White, "Lipstick" by Rockie Lynne, "As Long as You're Going My Way" by The Parks, and "Anywhere with You" by Music/JakeOwen.
102	* "Favorite State of Mind" by Josh Gracin goes the other way. He lists off a bunch of cities and states, but says that he'd rather be with her than anywhere else:
103	-->Hawaii's got big waves, Michigan Great Lakes
104	-->Colorado snowflakes, Georgia peaches
105	-->Louisiana hot food, New York attitude, Florida beaches
106	-->Tennessee whiskey, baby, are you with me
107	-->Texas chili, Virginia pine
108	-->It's hard to beat that California sunshine
109	-->But baby, you're my favorite, favorite state of mind
110	* "Wanted Man" by Music/JohnnyCash (co-written by Music/BobDylan) lists American states and cities in which the narrator is wanted.
111	* "Big Joe Mufferaw" by Canadian country star Music/StompinTomConnors is this for towns on the Ottawa River.
112	[[/folder]]
113
114	[[folder:Dance]]
115	* "Scatman & Hatman", a 2019 track by Lou Bega of "Mambo No. 5" fame that heavily samples Music/ScatmanJohn's eponymous hit, has these lines near the end:
116	-->Everywhere we go
117	-->Welcome to the show
118	-->We can strike a knockout blow
119	-->In London, Rio, Tokyo
120	* "Flying Around The World" by {{Eurobeat}} persona Bazooka Girl:
121	-->We're flying all around the world
122	-->Moscow, Tokyo, to Bangkok
123	-->Coming back to Rome
124	-->Paris and New York
125	[[/folder]]
126
127	[[folder:Electro-hop]]
128	* Music/{{LMFAO}} did a variation on this by putting out a large amount of alternate versions of their single "I'm In Miami Trick", with the chorus re-dubbed to refer to other major US and Canada cities. Since the song is more about partying in general than any attributes of Miami itself, no other lyrical changes are made, however unlikely it might sound for one to be "in the sand with a Red Bull in my hand" in Boise, Idaho.
129	[[/folder]]
130
131	[[folder:Electronic]]
132	* "Get Ready" by R2Swing lists various cities and shows their patriotism by starting with Paris.
133	* "Breakfast in Berlin" by Music/JulienK seems to be going for a "partying around the world" thing.
134	* Music/{{Kraftwerk}}'s "Trans Europe Express" lists the different cities one can go to on the train system.
135	* Music/KirinJCallinan's EDM-country mashup "Big Enough" does this with countries, and in the final lines, religions, in its call for world peace. There's some clever puns in there, too.
136	-->Kenya get it India?\
137	It's serious in Syria\
138	Believe in us, Bolivia\
139	We're Ghana be big enough
140	[[/folder]]
141
142	[[folder:Folk]]
143	* "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie:
144	--> From California to the New York Island
145	--> From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
146	->Note there are many versions for many different countries.
147	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve2Qj281G0s "Passenger"]] by Music/LisaHannigan is this combined with WanderlustSong.
148	* The British marching song "Over the Hills and Far Away" (made famous today by ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'') was written to cover the battlefields of the War of the Spanish Succession, but enjoyed a revival a century later in the Napoleonic Wars as British involvement in those conveniently also covered the same countries:
149	--> O'er the hills and o'er the main
150	--> Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain
151	--> King George commands and we obey
152	--> Over the hills and far away.
153	* "Upstate New York Waltz" by Si Kahn:
154	-->We reunited one night in Oneida,
155	-->We tarried in Tarrytown too.
156	-->I chased her through Utica up into Ithaca,
157	-->Sure that her love would be true.
158	-->But on a safari to Canajoharie
159	-->She was just climbing the walls.
160	-->We barely were speakin'
161	-->When we got to Beacon,
162	-->And broke up in Wappingers Falls.
163	-->I was drowning in pain as she got on the train
164	-->With a ticket that said “To New Paltz”
165	-->I'll never forgive her 'til the band plays that old
166	-->Hudson River Upstate New York Waltz.
167	* "Losin' Auld Reekie" by Jim Malcom starts off by describing him leaving Edinburgh (nicknamed Auld Reekie), then lists the other towns he goes through on a road trip of the Scottish Lowlands.
168	-->Skiting into Angus, via Kirrie and Padanarum,\
169	Stopping on the other side of Forfar.\
170	Well I could have got there quicker,\
171	But I'm fed up cutting corners,\
172	Cruisin', losin' Auld Reekie.
173	* One version of "The Wabash Cannonball" lists seventeen US cities, Montreal and Mexico.
174	[[/folder]]
175
176	[[folder:Folk Rock]]
177	* "Letter from America" by Music/TheProclaimers lists various Scottish towns, counties and islands that the emigrant to the US is leaving. "Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more, Lewis no more, Skye no more..."
178	* Music/TomWaits' song "Don't Go Into That Barn" ends with a list of southern towns that a character - implicitly a fugitive on the run from the law - is passing through. Or, more accurately, he's passing by, or making stops at, while on a riverboat—the first town listed is along a canal in Ohio that was active before the Civil War, while every other one is on either the Ohio or Mississippi River..
179	-->No shirt no coat\
180	Take me on a flat boat\
181	Dover, down to Covington\
182	Covington to Louisville\
183	Louisville to Henderson\
184	Henderson to Smithland\
185	Smithland to Memphis\
186	Memphis down to to Vicksburg\
187	Vicksburg to Natchez\
188	Goin' down to Natchez
189	** Also from Tom Waits, "Fish in the Jailhouse" is a song about a prison inmate plotting his GreatEscape, and also quickly running through where he's going to go to dodge the law. He, too, is passing through Natchez, Mississippi.
190	-->From Yazoo City down to Rolling Fork\
191	From Natchez to Kenosha, move down to New York
192	** Downplayed in "Pony", where the narrator left Murfreesboro, TN, to wander across Louisiana and Mississippi, namechecking such towns as Belzoni, Hushpukena, Tallulah, and, yes, Natchez.
193	** [[https://tomwaitsmap.com/ Tomwaitsmap.com]] is a website mapping out all the places Tom Waits has ever mentioned in song.
194	[[/folder]]
195
196	[[folder:Funk Rock]]
197	%%* "Around the World" by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers.
198	** "Dani California" also counts, which lists off a number of other US states before getting to the titular California.
199	* "Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago" by Music/SoulCoughing lists various world cities, declaring them to be "in the room". It's a bit of a case of WordSaladLyrics.
200	[[/folder]]
201
202	[[folder:Goth]]
203	* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s song "Ex-Lover's Lover" lists the cities he's going to mail the body parts of his ex's new boyfriend to after chopping him up.
204	-->It would take the most brilliant private eye
205	-->the rest of his life just to put you together,
206	-->a piece in each mailbox all over the planet,
207	-->from Moscow, to Tokyo, to Guadalajara.
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder:Hardcore Hip Hop]]
211	* The song "Raw Shit ft. MC Ren & Paris" from the Music/PublicEnemy album ''Rebirth of a Nation'' includes Flava Flav listing "Public Enemy number one in X", X being, in order, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, Baltimore, Miami, Indiana, L.A., DC, New Jersey, Cleveland Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Philly, Atlanta and St. Louis.
212	[[/folder]]
213
214	[[folder:Hard Rock]]
215	* Hawkwind's "Damnation Alley", based on the Creator/RogerZelazny novel, subverts this with a list of ''annihilated'' places:
216	-->No more Arizona now, Phoenix is fried up
217	-->Oklahoma City, what a pity it's gone
218	-->Louisiana's dealt it and the Missus Hip's dried up
219	-->No more Chattanooga, Cherokee, Lexington
220	[[/folder]]
221
222	[[folder:Heavy Metal]]
223	* "Blood of the Kings" by Music/{{Manowar}} features the shouts of various countries' names with such metal pathos as if they were {{ProudWarriorRace}}s [[MundaneMadeAwesome (e.g. "SWITZERLAAAND!!! MONACOOO!!! etc.")]].
224	-->Our armies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
225	-->Our brothers in Belgium, Holland and France
226	-->Will not fail
227	-->Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy
228	-->Switzerland, Austria
229	-->Back to the Glory of Germany
230	%%* "I Am One" by Music/{{WASP\|Band}} from the ''Music/TheCrimsonIdol'' lists multiple cities during it's intro.
231	[[/folder]]
232
233	[[folder:Hip Hop]]
234	* Lil Kim's song "LightersUp" lists a lot of places ranging from Bed-Stuy to Kingston, Jamaica
235	%%* MIMS' song "This is Why I'm Hot"
236	* "Country Grammar" also lists different cities (though it is one of the few songs to proudly proclaim love for St. Louis)
237	** What else would you expect from Nelly?
238	* As a variant, the opening of "Perfect Gentleman" by Wycleff Jean includes a list of what one must assume are the names of 'gentleman's clubs'- "Magic City, New York Dogs, Rolex"
239	* This trope was endemic with merengue hip-hop singers in the early 90's, specially Proyecto Uno and El General. They couldn't release an album without a song listing all the countries they were having (or hoping to have) success in.
240	* [[Music/SirMixALot Sir Mix-A-Lot]]: "What's up Chicago, what's up? What's up Chicago what's up? Chicago, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it."
241	** And in "Square Dance Rap", he names off places that rock according to him: Seattle, L.A., Miami, D.C., Carolina, Houston, Texas, your momma and London, England.
242	* Tupac's "California Love" shouts out to just about every major city in California towards the end, and L.A., Watts, and Compton are called out to in the actual chorus. San Diego and many cities in the north, though, are conspicuously absent...
243	* "The Good Life" by Music/KanyeWest. Apparently the good life feels like Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, D.C., Virginia Beach, and the Bay area.
244	%%* "7 Weeks" by GymClassHeroes.
245	* A variation exists in the Ludacris song "Area Codes." Instead of directly naming cities, he instead lists off all the phone number area codes of various locations where he has had one-night stands with women.
246	%%** "Pimpin' All Over the World" is a more straight example.
247	* Music/ATribeCalledQuest's "Award Tour", as seen in the page quote. The song lists a total of 32 cities (8 per hook).
248	* Music/BeastieBoys' "Dedication" consists entirely of Mike D listing off cities / locations. There's some humor to it: a couple of the places are overly specific New York City references, Newcastle, England is singled out as "where {{Music/Venom}} come from", and very early in the song, Mike mentions "all galaxies", which logically would have covered everything else that followed.
249	[[/folder]]
250
251	[[folder:House]]
252	* Global Deejays -0 "The Sound of San Francisco": In addition to the titular San Francisco, this dance track repeatedly lists 14 other major world cities, such as Cape Town and Amsterdam.
253	* Saint Etienne had a song ("Girl VII") where singer Sarah Cracknell listed off in a monotone a large number of places, many of them London boroughs and places recognisable to Londoners, but also including Pakistan and Buffalo, for example.
254	* The titular character John from Lemon Jelly's ''Ramblin' Man'' has rambled to some '''67''' different locations.
255	[[/folder]]
256
257	[[folder:Indian music]]
258	* "Dard-e-Disco" from the film ''Film/OmShantiOm'' has "London Paris New York LA San Francisco"
259	[[/folder]]
260
261	[[folder:Indie Folk]]
262	* "The 50 States" by Music/SufjanStevens seriously name-drops all 50 of the United States. He would use the song to open the show on the tour supporting his ''Music/{{Illinois}}'' album.
263	** In "They Are Night Zombies", the backing singers name-drop a lot of Illinois cities over the chorus. Looking them up reveals that most of them are {{ghost town}}s, or on their way to becoming ghost towns.
264	[[/folder]]
265
266	[[folder:Indie Rock]]
267	* Music/GirlsAgainstBoys' "Tucked-in":
268	-->New York.
269	-->Chicago, Chicago, Chicago.
270	-->New York.
271	-->Chicago, Chicago, Chicago.
272	-->Los Angeles. There's something nice to be said.
273	[[/folder]]
274
275	[[folder:Industrial Metal]]
276	%%* "On Earth" by Samael.
277	%%* "D.I.Y." by Music/{{KMFDM}}
278	[[/folder]]
279
280	[[folder:New Wave]]
281	* "Pop Muzik" by M:
282	-->New York, London, Paris, Munich
283	-->Everybody talk about pop muzik
284	** Also an example of AlbumTitleDrop.
285	* "Hide the Beer, the Pastor's Here" by [[Music/DanielAmos The Swirling Eddies]] is a variation. Instead of listing cities, they list seminaries. After the song was published, the Eddies got a bunch of mail from pastors angry that their alma mater was mentioned in the song... and just as many letters from pastors wishing their alma mater had been mentioned.
286	[[/folder]]
287
288	[[folder:Nu Metal]]
289	* "Show Me What You Got" by Music/LimpBizkit mentions a whopping forty-one cities before stating that it can't list them all.
290	[[/folder]]
291
292	[[folder:Pop]]
293	* Music/KatyPerry's "California Gurls" pretty much lists off every major city in California with a beach.
294	* ''Manila'' by Filipino band Hotdog.
295	-->Manila, Manila
296	-->I keep coming back to Manila
297	-->Simply no place like Manila
298	-->Manila, I'm coming home
299
300	-->I walked the streets of San Francisco
301	-->I've tried the rides in Disneyland
302	-->Dated a million girls in Sydney
303	-->Somehow I feel like I don't belong
304
305	-->''Hinahanap-hanap kita Manila'' [[note]]I'm always searching for you Manila[[/note]]
306	-->''Ang ingay mong kay sarap sa tenga'' [[note]]Your noises are music to my ears[[/note]]
307	-->''Mga jeepney mong nagliliparan'' [[note]]Your full-throttled jeepneys[[/note]]
308	-->''Mga babae mong nagagandahan'' [[note]]Your beautiful women[[/note]]
309
310	-->Take me back in your arms Manila
311	-->And promise me you'll never let go,
312	-->Promise me you'll never let go
313	* Music/AKB48's "47 no Suteki na Machi e" with each of the 47 {{idol\|Singer}}s singing out all [[UsefulNotes/TheFortySevenPrefectures the 47 prefectures]] of UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} in order. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] that each member is from each of its respective prefecture.
314
315	-->''Hokkaido! Aomori! Iwate! Miyagi!''
316	-->''Akita! Yamagata! Fukushima! Ibaraki!''
317	-->''Tochigi! Gunma! Saitama! Chiba!''
318	-->''Tokyo! Kanagawa! Niigata! Toyama!''
319	-->''Ishikawa! Fukui! Yamanashi! Nagano!''
320	-->''Gifu! Chiba! Aichi! Mie!''
321	-->''Shiga! Kyoto! Osaka! Hyogo!''
322	-->''Nara! Wakayama! Tottori! Shimane!''
323	-->''Okayama! Hiroshima! Yamaguchi! Tokushima!''
324	-->''Kagawa! Ehime! Kochi! Fukuoka!''
325	-->''Saga! Nagasaki! Kumamoto! Oita!''
326	-->''Miyazaki! Kagoshima! Okinawa!''
327	* Music/LouBega's "I Got A Girl" lists places where Lou [[TheCasanova has got a girl]].
328	-->I got a girl in [[GayParee Paris]], I got a girl in Rome,\
329	I even got [[NaughtyNuns a girl in Vatican Dome]]\
330	I got a girl right here, I got a girl right there\
331	And I got a girlfriend everywhere\
332	[[BoldlyComing I got a girl on the Moon, I got a girl on Mars]]\
333	I even got a girl that likes to dance in the stars\
334	I got a girl right here and one right there\
335	And I got a girlfriend everywhere
336	* Dion's "The Majestic" lists four cities and four states where the title dance is supposedly being performed.
337	* Music/JenniferLopez's "On the Floor" lists five cities, two countries and a continent.
338	* Chubby Checker's "Twistin' USA" lists sixteen cities before getting a little more exotic.
339	-->They're Twistin' in Washington\
340	In Cincinatti, England, Europe\
341	They're Twistin' in Asia, Africa and Australie (Australia)
342	* The Filipino novelty singer Yoyoy Villame recorded a song in 1977 called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_PMcFjE9as Philippine Geography]]", which listed the provinces (and a few cities) of the Philippines.
343	* Ed Ames' "Son of a Travelin' Man" lists nineteen cities.
344	[[/folder]]
345
346	[[folder:Pop Punk]]
347	* All Time Low's song "Hello Brooklyn" mentions...well. Brooklyn. And some other places.
348	** Including a roll call of cities at the end of the song.
349	[[/folder]]
350
351	[[folder:Progressive Rock]]
352	* Music/{{Marillion}}'s ''The Invisible Man'':
353	--> Cold as a ghost ..watching the streets, Sheltering in doorways of
354	--> UsefulNotes/{{Venice}}, UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}}, Budapest, Krakow, and Amsterdam
355	[[/folder]]
356
357	[[folder:R & B]]
358	* Music/JamesBrown - "Living in America": Lists 9 major U.S. cities in a row, with echoing backup vocals for good measure.
359	** "Night Train". It's pretty much an instrumental except for the city names.
360	* "Dancing in the Street" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas lists eight cities.
361	* Lee Dorsey's "Ride Your Pony" mentions seven cities throughout the lyrics.
362	[[/folder]]
363
364	[[folder:Rap]]
365	* A number of R&B or rap songs try to break the United States into three or four densely populated areas and give a shout out to each one, as in this quote from Nelly's "Dilemma":
366	-->East coast, I know you're shakin' right
367	-->Down south, I know you're bouncin' right
368	-->West coast, I know you're walkin' right
369	-->Midwest, I see you swingin' right
370	* Music/{{Drake}}'s song "Fancy" mentions Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto.
371	* Music/IceCube's "Rep That West" has a bridge that shouts out all the states he considers to be "West Coast".
372	* Music/TupacShakur's "California Love" is full of shoutouts to cities and neighborhoods in California.
373	-->And you know L.A. up in this\
374	Pasadena, where you at?\
375	Yeah, Inglewood, Inglewood always up to no good\
376	Even Hollywood tryin' to get a piece, baby\
377	Sacramento, Sacramento where you at?
378	[[/folder]]
379
380	[[folder:Rock]]
381	* Music/TheBeachBoys, "California Girls"
382	-->Well east coast girls are hip\
383	And the southern girls with the way they talk\
384	The midwest farmers' daughters really make you feel alright\
385	And the northern girls with the way they kiss\
386	The west coast has the sunshine\
387	I dig a french bikini on Hawaii Island
388	** "Surfin' USA" listed a bunch of surfing locations through the US, for which Music/BrianWilson asked for help from his then-girlfriend's brother Jimmy Bowles, who was an avid surfer. The final tally includes almost every surfing spot in UsefulNotes/{{California}}, Sunset Beach and Waimea Bay in Hawaii, and "Australia's Narrabeen", a beach in northern Sydney. (The band played at Narrabeen in November 1992, with "Surfin' USA" being the mandatory encore.)
389	*** "Surfin USA" was a lyrical rewrite of Music/ChuckBerry's "[[http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/chuck+berry/sweet+little+sixteen_20030910.html Sweet Little Sixteen]]", which also did the listing cities thing.
390	--->They're really rockin' in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}
391	--->In UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}, PA
392	--->Deep in the heart of Texas
393	--->And round the [[UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Frisco Bay]]
394	--->All over UsefulNotes/StLouis
395	--->And down in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans
396	--->All the cats wanna dance with
397	--->Sweet little sixteen
398	*** And "Sweet Little Sixteen" is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong Suspiciously Similar]] to "Route 90" by Clarence Garlow, released a few years earlier. Garlow lists various towns in Texas and Louisiana on the way to New Orleans.
399	** Musci/TheBeachBoys also had "Kokomo", which aside from the eponymous fictional place "off the Florida Keys" (they weren't singing about Kokomo, Indiana), mentions a variety of (mostly [[UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean Caribbean]]) destinations:
400	--> Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya to
401	--> Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
402	--> Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go
403	* Music/{{Huey Lewis\|AndTheNews}}'s "Heart of Rock and Roll" does this. New York City and Los Angeles get their own verses, then there's this:
404	-->"[[UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC D.C.]], [[UsefulNotes/OtherCitiesInTexas San Antone]] and the [[UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} Liberty Town]]
405	-->UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} and Baton Rouge
406	-->Tulsa, Austin, Oklahoma City,
407	-->UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, too"
408	** And the original outro to the above song also name-drops UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} and UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}.
409	** Two special versions of the song were released for Canadian radio: the East Coast version has him shout out "Toronto! Montreal!" at the end, and the West Coast version has him shout "Vancouver!".
410	** The version played on one Central New York station during the song's run on the charts had "Syracuse! Albany!"
411	* Music/TheBeatles parodied the Beach Boys' "California Girls" in "Back in the USSR" (as well as referencing another song):
412	-->Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out,
413	-->They leave the West behind;
414	-->And Moscow girls make me sing and shout,
415	-->That [[Music/RayCharles Georgia's always on my mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mind!]]
416	* Billy Joel's "You're My Home":
417	-->Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike
418	-->Indiana early morning dew
419	-->High up in the hills of California
420	-->Home is just another word for you
421	%%* The Cross (a side project by Music/{{Queen}} drummer Roger Taylor) has one of these entitled "Cowboys and Indians"
422	* Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway" (not strictly cities):
423	-->From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
424	-->The Khyber Pass to [[UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} Vancouver's]] lights
425	* "Truckin'" by Music/TheGratefulDead.
426	* Music/ToddRundgren's "Hot Espresso (All Jacked Up)" centers around a jetsetting band in their neverending search for coffee.
427	-->"In the morning it's a bus to Barcelona
428	-->fly a little side trip over to Roma
429	-->Then we all meet up in Cannes, Nice, and Monaco
430	-->Venice, Munich, UsefulNotes/{{London}}, UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco
431	-->Then we drive to UsefulNotes/SantaFe, then [[UsefulNotes/OtherCitiesInTexas Austin]]
432	-->UsefulNotes/NewOrleans, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York]], UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}
433	-->We all meet up in UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, Ohio
434	-->Columbus, UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, coffee stop UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}
435	-->Then it's [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles L.A.]], Honolulu
436	-->UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}, UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, UsefulNotes/HongKong, UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}, Kathmandu
437	-->And at the end of it all, if god is willing
438	-->We're sipping Turkish coffee in Greenwich Village...
439	* Music/BonJovi's "Raise Your Hands", up to and including Sayreville, NJ - the band's hometown.
440	%%* Music/Slade's "Far Far Away"
441	* Music/TheByrds' "The Bells of Rhymney" lists several Welsh locations such as Merthyr and Cardiff.
442	* Music/{{U2}}'s "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" name drops "Miami, New Orleans, London, Belfast, and Berlin" as places to which the protagonist can escape "with satellite television".
443	** In live performances of "Stay", the list of cities is usually changed to reflect where the concert is being played. When a Zoo TV concert in Sydney, Australia was filmed for global broadcast on television, Bono altered the line to "Miami, New Orleans, Sydney, to the rest of the world".
444	** Live performances of "Magnificent" during the 360° Tour generally began with Bono asking, "Where are we going?" He would then list several cities, before invariably ending the list with the current concert's location.
445	* "Runnin' Back to Saskatoon" by Music/TheGuessWho. Besides Saskatoon, the chorus mentions other towns in Saskatchewan (Moose Jaw, Moosomin), plus Alberta (Red Deer, Medicine Hat) and British Columbia (Terrace).
446	* "Fire Down Below" by Music/BobSeger:
447	--> It happens out in Vegas, happens in Moline
448	--> On the blue blood streets of Boston
449	--> Up in Berkeley and out in Queens
450	--> And it went on yesterday, it's going on tonight
451	--> Somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right
452	** Also "Sunspot Baby", about tracking down an ex who conned him and stole his money and credit cards:
453	--> I looked in Miami, I looked in [[UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}} Negril]]
454	--> The closest I came was a month old bill
455	--> I checked the Bahamas and they said she was gone
456	--> Can't understand why she did me so wrong
457	** "Face the Promise" also mentions a bunch of places in the US the singer needs to leave in order to "face the promise of the Promised Land", including Olean (NY), Framingham (MA), Arizona, "Alabam'", and North Dakota--in different verses of the song.
458	--> So long Allegany, so long Olean
459	--> I need to face the promise of the Promised Land
460	* "Rock'n Me" by Music/SteveMiller:
461	--> I went from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma
462	--> Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A.
463	--> Northern California where the girls are warm
464	--> So I could be with my sweet baby, yeah
465	* Music/TheyMightBeGiants did this on a macro level with the "Venue Songs" project, for which they wrote a song about every venue they went to on that tour. Some of them are specifically about the theatres where they played, some are about the entire cities, namechecking neighborhoods and local landmarks, and some of them have not much to do with either and are just silly They Might Be Giants songs.
466	* Music/ElectricSix's "Escape From Ohio" ends with the narrator briefly paying tribute to the states that border Ohio, the implication that they would be [[PlaceWorseThanDeath far preferable]].
467	-->Don't you want to come with me\
468	And make a break for Kentucky\
469	I [[CallBack still got something to put in ya]]\
470	But we'll have to go to West Virginia.\
471	And I've heard great things about Indiana, too.
472	[[/folder]]
473
474	[[folder:Rock and Roll]]
475	* "I've Been Everywhere", in which the chorus is the a hitchhiker declaring that he's been everywhere, and the verses are just long assonant lists of placenames. There are many different versions. Some of the more notable:
476	** The original version, by Geoff Mack. lists towns in Australia:
477	--->I've been to Moree, Taree, Jerilderie, Bambaroo,\
478	Toowoomba, Gunnedah, Caringbah, Woolloomooloo,\
479	Dalveen, Tamborine, Engadine, Jindabyne,\
480	Lithgow, Casino, Brigalow and Narromine,\
481	Megalong, Wyong, Tuggerawong, Wangarella,\
482	Morella, Augathella, Brindabella, I'm the feller.
483	** The [[CoveredUp better known version]] by Hank Snow, itself covered by multiple people including Music/JohnnyCash, relocates it to the Americas:
484	--->I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota,\
485	Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota,\
486	Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma,,\
487	Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma.\
488	Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo,\
489	Tocapillo, Baranquilla, and Perdilla, I'm a killer.
490	** There's also a UK and Ireland version by Lucky Starr:
491	--->I've been to Bradford, Guildford, Oxford, Littlehampton,\
492	Bedford, Chingford, Hereford, Wolverhampton,\
493	Shrewsbury, Canterbury, Aylesbury, Liverpool,\
494	Scunthorpe, Sandthorpe, Mablethorpe, Hartlepool,\
495	Whitehall, Blackpool, Mildenhall, Davenport, \
496	Newport, Southport, Stockport, I'm a sport.
497	** And a New Zealand verison by John Grenell:
498	--->I've been to Kaparoa, Whangaroa, Akaroa, Motueka,\
499	Taramoa, Benmore, Pongaroa, Horoeka,\
500	Rimutaka, Te Karaka, Whangarei,\
501	Nuhaka, Waimahaka, Motuhura, Waikaka,\
502	Motonui, Hokonui, Papanui, Wainui,\
503	Matawai, Rongotai, Pikowai, I'm a guy,
504	** And this makes it easy to parody. ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had a version with all the fictional cities from the show, and there's an ''Alaskan'' version, in which the singer runs out of places in Alaska, and has to [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment mention Anchorage several times]].
505	** In ''Franchise/TheMuppets Take the Bowl''. Rowlf sings a version with Californian towns. In ''The Muppets Take the 02'', he sings one with UsefulNotes/LondonUnderground stations.
506	* Ian Dury and the Blockheads' "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" lists various places across the world where people are moving to the music, "From Milan to Yucatán".
507	%%* Music/FlandersAndSwann's "Slow Train" does something similar. Played straight by the UK's 2007 Eurovision entry ("Flying the Flag for You", wasn't it?), probably to garner votes.
508	* Tommy Facenda recorded ''28'' different versions of his 1959 hit "High School U.S.A.", each one listing the names of local high schools in a different U.S. city.
509	[[/folder]]
510
511	[[folder:Ska Punk]]
512	* In Sublime's "April 29, 1992", there are 26, although the context is far different from what you would normally find with this trope.
513	[[/folder]]
514
515	[[folder:Soul]]
516	* The Trammps' "Love Epidemic" lists eight cities and Texas.
517	[[/folder]]
518
519	[[folder:Tropical Music]]
520	* Gaita-turned-salsa band Guaco had two songs dedicated to the beauty of Caracas's girls. One mentions several cities of Venezuela that also had pretty girls, before the singer settles on Caracas, while the other lists some of the most notorious neighborhoods of the city as providers of the sexy.
521	* Inverted in Music/JimmyBuffett's "Volcano"; he lists a bunch of places (including cities), but they're places he ''doesn't'' want to land when the titular volcano blows its top.
522	[[/folder]]
523
524	[[folder:Vocal Jazz]]
525	* "Route 66", first recorded by Music/NatKingCole and covered by countless others, lists many of the cities along the eponymous road.
526	[[/folder]]
527
528	!!Examples from other media:
529
530	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
531	* Dustin the Turkey's "32 Counties" gives a line to every one of UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}'s traditional counties, although not all have a notable landmark or quality so he was forced to add "Laois has a prison", "Westmeath has a bypass" and "Leitrim's a mistake"...
532	[[/folder]]
533
534	[[folder:Radio]]
535	* When performing "I've Been Everywhere" as the Pick-Up Song on an episode of ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'' recorded in Dorset, Dorset native John Finnemore used towns in Dorset.
536	* One episode of ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' opens with a pub quiz in which John's character has a mnemonic song for all the capital cities of Europe, which he insists he needs to sing in full to answer the question, but which naturally fades out very quickly to save him actually writing one. [[BrickJoke Or so it seems]], until the Storyteller sketch is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Oxg9zPUBE the song in full]]''.
537	[[/folder]]
538
539	[[folder:Theatre]]
540	* ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' has the song "Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat", and in the third verse Skimbleshanks lists the cities he travels to on the ''Night Mail''
541	->They were fast asleep at Crewe, and so they never knew
542	->that I was walking up and down the station,
543	->They were sleeping all the while I was busy at Carlisle
544	->where I met the stationmaster with elation!
545	->They might see me at Dumfries if I summoned the police
546	->If there was anything they ought to know about
547	->When they got to Gallowgate there they did not have to wait
548	->For Skimbleshanks would help them to get out!
549	* "We Open In Venice" from ''Theatre/KissMeKate'' lists the same Italian cities four times:
550	-->We open in Venice,\
551	We next play Verona,\
552	Then on to Cremona.\
553	Lotsa ''(noun)'' in Cremona.\
554	Our next stop is Parma,\
555	That ''(adjective)'', ''(adjective)'' menace.\
556	Then Mantua,\
557	Then Padua,\
558	Then we open again, where? ''(repeat)''
559	* In ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'', the residents of the fictional River City, Iowa list a bunch of town names from RealLife Iowa at the end of "Iowa Stubborn." While most of the towns listed are fairly prominent (for Iowa in 1912), Mason City was very minor at the time -- but also Meredith Willson's hometown, and the inspiration for River City.
560	%%* In ''Trouble in Tahiti'', the GreekChorus lists ''suburbs''.
561	* In ''Theatre/{{Follies}}'', "Ah, Paree!" lists places around the world that don't have what GayParee has.
562	[[/folder]]
563
564	[[folder:Web Video]]
565	* Jay ''attempts'' to sing one listing all the counties of England at the end of the relevant ''WebVideo/MapMen'' episode, but Mark puts an end to it by taking the ukulele Jay pulls out and smashing it against the table. Jay does get the full song in over the credits, though.
566	[[/folder]]
567
568	[[folder:Western Animation]]
569	* Wakko Warner's 50 State Capitals Song from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvJ9SN8THE&feature=related here]].
570	** Let's not forget Yakko's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOFKmk7ytU Nations of the World]] song. While that one's dated in more ways than one (thanks in part to [[BalkanizeMe the Eastern European independence movements from the mid-nineties]]), Creator/RobPaulsen also does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYfTKVfwdjU updated versions]].
571	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Mobile Homer", a guy sings a version of "I've Been Everywhere" with all the fictional towns of the series.
572	[[/folder]]

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