List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama

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This is a list of songs written about the city of Birmingham, Alabama:

* John Hiatt, "Train to Birmingham"
* Gene Autry, "Birmingham Daddy"
* Richard Farina "Birmingham Sunday", recorded by Joan Baez
* Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves, "Birmingham, Alabama"
* Blackhawk, "Postmarked Birmingham"
* Bruce Cockburn, "Birmingham Shadows", 1995
* Charlie Daniels, "Birmingham Bus Station", 1994
* Ani DiFranco, "Hello Birmingham" ( [http://www.danah.org/Ani/ToTheTeeth/HelloBirmingham.html lyrics] )
* Tommy Dorsey, "Birmingham Bounce", 1946
* Drive-By Truckers, "Birmingham", 2002
* Duke Ellington, "Birmingham Breakdown"
* Emmylou Harris, "Boulder to Birmingham"
* Erskine Hawkins, "Tuxedo Junction"
* Merline Johnson, "I Got a Man in a 'Bama Mine", 1937
* Tracy Lawrence, "Paint Me a Birmingham", 2004
* Leadbelly, "Birmingham Jail"
* Amanda Marshall, "Birmingham"
* John Mellencamp, "When Jesus Left Birmingham", 1993
* Robert Moore, "Sweet Birmingham" (first recorded by Taj Mahal)
* David Lee Murphy, "Breakfast in Birmingham"
* Randy Newman, "Birmingham"
* Phil Ochs, "Talking Birmingham Jam", 1965
* Pirates of the Mississippi, "Down and Out in Birmingham"
* Josh Rouse, "Sparrows over Birmingham"
* Telluride, "Birmingham Tonight"
* Keith Whitley, "Birmingham Turnaround"
* Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) "Birmingham Blues", 1921

Birmingham is also mentioned in the following:

* Chuck Berry, "Promised Land" (later remade as a 1975 hit for Elvis Presley)
* Bruce Hornsby, "Jacob's Ladder" (first recorded by Huey Lewis and the News, 1987)
* Little Richard, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"
* Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
* Tom Waits, "Swordfishtrombone" (1983)
* Drive-By Truckers, "One of These Days"
* Andy Offutt Irwin, "Maribel"
* Gator Boyz, "Alabama Anthem" (2005)
* Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish, "Stars Fell on Alabama", 1934
* Lyle Lovett, "I Can't Love You Anymore"
* Huddie Ledbetter/Ram Jam, "Black Betty"