music associated with where you live

I was alright with the chorus Glass but the northern bits used to slow me down. (still the same)

The Keel row was DD's school song at her school in Newcastle, quite apt as there was a lot of shipbuilding on the Tyne in those days.

jingle what are you like can you still sing it?

I had The Keel Row in my songbook when I was a kid. The one I stole from the Sunday School cupboard. I used to sing it sitting up in bed. I seemed to instictively know the tune.

Oops! World Bagpipes.

From the West of Scotland, Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns. Plus many more by the Bard. Plus Bagpipes as World Bagpies Championships are held here.

Or how about
The Keel row:-

As I came thro' Sandgate,

Thro' Sandgate, thro' Sandgate,

As I came thro' Sandgate,

I heard a lassie sing:

'O, weel may the keel row,
The keel row, the keel row,
O weel may the keel row
That my laddie's in.'
'O wha's like my Johnnie,

Sae leish, sae blithe, sae bonnie?

He's foremost 'mang the mony

Keel lads o' coaly Tyne;

He'll set or row sae tightly

Or, in the dance sae sprightly,

He'll cut and shuffle slightly,

'Tis true, were he nae mine.'

'He wears a blue bonnet,

Blue bonnet, blue bonnet,

He wears a blue bonnet

A dimple in his chin.

And weel may the keel row,
The keel row, the keel row,
And weel may the keel row
That my laddie's in.'

Bet you havent heard this musical hall song from Joe Wilson about the North East

Come, Geordie—ha'd the Bairn or Aw wish thy Muther wad cum.
Air – “"The Whistling Thief".”

Come, Geordie, ha'd the bairn,
Aw's sure aw'll not stop lang;
Aw'd tyek the jewel me sel,
But really aw's not strang.
Thor's floor an' coals to get,
The hoose-wark's not half deun,
Sae--haud the bairn for fairs,
Thou's often deun't for fun.

Then Geordie held the bairn,
But sair agyen his will;
The poor bit thing wes good,
But Geordie had nee skill;
He haddent its Muther's ways,
He sat byeth stiff an' numb;
Afore five minutes was gyen,
He wish'd its Muther wad cum.

His wife had hardlys gyen,
The bairn began to squall,
With hikin't up an' doon
He varry neigh let it fall.
It nivver wad ha'd its tung,
Tho' some aud teun he'd hum--
"Jack and Jill went up the hill"--
"Aw wish thy Muther wad cum."

What weary toil said he
This nursin' bairns mun be;
A bit on't's well enough,
Aye, quite eneuf for me.
To ha'd-a blubberin' bairn,
It may be grand to some;
A day's wark's not as bad--
"Aw wish thy Muther wad cum.

" Men seldom give a thowt
To what their wives endure;
Aw thowt she'd nowt to dee
But clean the hoose, aw's sure,
Or myek my dinner an' tea--
(It's startin' to sook its thumb;
The Poor thing wants its tit)--
"Aw wish thy Muther wad cum."

What a selfish world this is!
There's nowt mair sae than Man;
He laffs at Wimmin's toill,
An' nivvir 'll norse his awn--
(It's startin' to cry agyen--
Aw see tuts throo it's gum;)
Maw canny bit pet, O dinna thoo fret--
"Aw wish thy Muther wad cum."

But kindness dis a vast-
It's nee use gettin vext--
It'll niver please the bairn,
Or ease a mind perplext.
At last it's gyen to sleep,
The Wife'll not say aw's numb--
She'll think aw's a real good nurse--
But--"Aw wish thy Muther wad cum."

"Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" (Ron Goodwin) -
well, I live near Heathrow...

Since we live near the London Basin "Concrete and Clay", by Unit 4+2 ?

Any kind of Rock music. We have a very well known Rock Festival.

Anyone from Leeds? (we link up with them cos theirs goes on at the same time)

Such lovely lilting music, can't think anything dedicated to where I come from!

Rowantree How can you complain when you have a (very) long song named after you - or are you named after the song?

That should have been "Wild Ettrick" - not a person!

But more seriously from my Scottish homeland -
The Soft Lowland Tongue of the Borders, The Flo'ers of the Forest, Wil Ettrick are 3 which spring to mind.

Oh if only.... thinks - Midsummer Boulevard Blues? Concrete Cows Rag, Milton Keynes Melody? Never heard of them? Me neither

Jerusalem the golden. Weatherly lived here. We have a road named after him.

Rowantree there was a song called 'We Know you're from Croyden' by Joan Coffey

Shirley by Billy Bragg Rowantree

I had never heard of him despite being from the Midlands myself.

Er....I live in Shirley, Croydon. silence

Can't think of anything musical to say about it!

Roger Whitaker, Durham Town.
Sting, waters of Tyne.

about not aobut

Got it! He was a professor of music at Birmingham University I see and wrote it based on the Rubaiyat. Of course, I should have known that! I think I'll have to stick to Funky Moped which at least was written by a Brummie! There are some lovely songs aobut cities in the UK but unfortunately not this one. I love some of those mentioned above and I love 'In My Liverpool Home' and 'I wish I was back in Liverpool'

Oh.. I will google that rose