List of songs about Birmingham

This is a list of songs about Birmingham, England, with lyrics in brackets where appropriate.

• Pato Banton - "Handsworth Riot"
• Broadcast (band) - "Michael A Grammar" (Michael, wake up we're going back to Chelmsley Wood)
• Electric Light Orchestra - "Birmingham Blues" from Out of the Blue
• The Fall - "Birmingham School Of Business School"
• Go Kart Mozart - "Mrs Back-To-Front and the Bull Ring Thing"
• Rob Halford - "Made in Hell" (Metal came from foundries where the idlands sound unfurled/The Bull Ring was a lonely place of concrete towers and steel)
• Johnny Foreigner - "Sometimes in the Bullring"
• Marie Lloyd - "Oh! Mr Porter" (Oh! Mister Porter, what shall I do?/I want to go to Birmingham and they're taking me on to Crewe)
• Misspent Youth - Betcha Wont Dance/Birmingham Boys (Big Bear Records 1979 BB20)^[1]
• Reg Meuross - "Birmingham Hotel"
• The Pogues - "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six"
• Red Dragon and Flourgan - "Follow Me" (Follow we go London and Birmingham city)
• Sex Pistols - "Bodies" (She was a girl from Birmingham/She just had an abortion)
• The Smiths - "Panic" (Panic on the streets of London/Panic on the streets of Birmingham)
• Steel Pulse - "Handsworth Revolution"
• The Streets - "Turn The Page" (The hazy fog over the Bull Ring/The lazy ways the birds sing)
• Tippa Irie - "It's Good to Have the Feeling You're the Best" (Well I control the north, south, east and west/In London and Birmingham one have to confess)
• Travis - "She's So Strange" (She went to Birmingham/ She'll soon be in the can)
• Mr Hudson and the Library - "2x2" (Two by two the lovers slip, Through the frozen streets of Birmingham)

References

1. Ogg, Alex (2006). No more heroes : a complete history of UK punk from 1976 to 1980 : (1. publ. ed.). London: Cherry Red. pp. 366–368. ISBN 1-901447-65-0.