FabSwingers.com forum: What is the best song with a British plaçe name in the title

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Happy Saturdays everyone

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

England Swings by Roger Miller.

Listen to it now it's extremely dated.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can the place be a lyric.....pleassssssssssseeee?

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

London bridge

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
over a year ago

A den in the Glen

This'll be tricky.

London Calling - The Clash

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Waterloo Sunset- Kinks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"London bridge

Hahahahahaha

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By *vgloryholebs16TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol.

London calling ....the Clash

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By *vgloryholebs16TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol.

"London calling ....the Clash"

Whoops I Clashed with someone else..

Ferry Cross the Mersey

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Scarborough Fair.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fog on the Tyne

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

Fog on the tyne by Gazza.

The rock n roll hall of fame beckons.

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By *elix SightedMan
over a year ago

Cloud 8

Ooo snap!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ooo snap!!!"

Great minds think alike and all that jazz

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

Itchycoo park

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

Ooooo a town called Alice

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"Can the place be a lyric.....pleassssssssssseeee?"
No problem. No rules

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

"This'll be tricky.

London Calling - The Clash"

This one. Definitely

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

Dagenham Dave...str*nglers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A bomb in Wardour street by The Jam

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
over a year ago

A den in the Glen

Sunshine on Leith - The Proclaimers

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By *alm_one4Man
over a year ago

RM16

Billericay Dikkie - Ian Dury

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By *oppleWangerMan
over a year ago

Gods Country

Not a massive fan of Chelsea Dagger by the Fratellis, so its the best of a shit bunch really

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

It Never Rains in Manchester - BC Camplight

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By *ockboy77Man
over a year ago

Angus, Glasgow

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By *ockboy77Man
over a year ago

Angus, Glasgow

London Calling

Guns of Brixton

White Man in the Hammersmith Palais

London’s Burning

Can you tell I’m a Clash fan

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By *zeroMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Eton Rifles - The Jam

London Calling - The Clash

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By *olex99Man
over a year ago

Hull

For what is Chatteris by Half Man Half Biscuit

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

Black country woman, led zepp

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Unknown T – Homerton B

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

Waterloo Sunset - Kinks

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By *ik MMan
over a year ago

Lancashire

Sproston Green

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By *zeroMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

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By *BWLOVER1965Man
over a year ago

Ipswich

Strawberry fields

Beatles

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By *aulaxd2020TV/TS
over a year ago

Dudley

Vulvahampton by the velvet underpants

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Penny Lane

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's a song called "medway towns song" it's not the most pleasing song sonically but it wins points for accuracy.

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By *quirrel!Man
over a year ago

Chelsie Dagger was the first that came to mind!

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By *erdyCurvyInkedPervyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

Manchester by The Beautiful South

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Hit the North - The Fall

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By *uri00620Woman
over a year ago

Croydon

Wellington Road by Strangelove. Not sure if intentionally British but must be loads of them here somewhere!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Can the place be a lyric.....pleassssssssssseeee?No problem. No rules

Panic - the smiths

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By *rouble81Couple
over a year ago

Bolton

Whipping Piccadilly- Gomez

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By *arren and AliciaCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

On the Bonnie Bonnie banks of loch lomond

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By *uri00620Woman
over a year ago

Croydon

Picadilly Palare- Morrissey

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By *angtidy42Couple
over a year ago

Redditch

Last train to London.

ELO

https://youtu.be/Up4WjdabA2c?si=RHWhQ7oRZQUi4fCI

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

By Piccadilly station I sat down and wept - Tracey Thorn

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By *arren and AliciaCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Belfast child

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By *eronicaExplorerWoman
over a year ago

London

Kingston Town UB40

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

Winchester Cathedral the new vaudeville band

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

"Winchester Cathedral the new vaudeville band "

Actually that's not right, Baker Street Gerry Rafferty is the best song with an English place name

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

"Winchester Cathedral the new vaudeville band

Actually that's not right, Baker Street Gerry Rafferty is the best song with an English place name "

Note I said English, I don't presume to judge Scottish, Welsh or Irish

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By *arren and AliciaCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

When I called you last night from Glasgow - Super trooper

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By *aggonerMan
over a year ago

for a penny

The Valley of Tees. Vin Garbutt

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By *ocialWatchingMan
over a year ago

Alnwick / Newcastle

Fog on the Tyne !

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

Rainy Night In Soho - The Pogues

Other Notables:

The Clash - Guns of Brixton

Van Morrison and the Chieftains - Carrickfergus (OK, that’s UK, not GB!)

The Pogues - London You’re a Lady

Richard Hawley - Lowedges

The Stone Roses - Mersey Paradise

The Byrds - The Bells of Rhymney

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By *heeseandWineCouple
over a year ago

Reading and Southampton

Warwick Avenue - Duffy

Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band

Bit of a London Underground station theme here!

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By * kiss like morphineMan
over a year ago

The gravelly bit next to the shed

Cardiff

Stone sour

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By *aydumfriesMan
over a year ago

heathhall

Mull of kintyre

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By *arren and AliciaCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

White cliffs of Dover

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By *cottish guy 555Man
over a year ago

London

Campbelltown Loch I wish you were whiskey

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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago

London

K-Armagh Police?

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

Flasher Jack and Annabelle at the seaside in Scarborough.

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By *ealMissShadyWoman
over a year ago

St Albans/ Welsh Borders

Brixton Briefcase - Chase and Status

Laburnum - Never been to London

Gerry Rafferty Baker Street

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By *ealMissShadyWoman
over a year ago

St Albans/ Welsh Borders

Day trip to Bangor - Fiddlers Dram

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By *ichaelsmyMan
over a year ago

douglas

blue birds over the white cliffs of dover

sunshine on leith, proclaimers

mull of kintyre

belfast child

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
over a year ago

A den in the Glen

Alternative Ulster.

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By *lowmeagainMan
over a year ago

dorchester

Bristol stomp

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Meet Me In Battersea Park by Petula Clark....couldn't resist the rhyme

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By *wlmanMan
over a year ago

Rugby

Birmingham Blues ELO

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By *vgloryholebs16TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol.

London Boys...T Rex

Last night in Soho..DDDBM and T

Chelsea ( I don't want to go to) ..Elvis Costello.

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By *arren and AliciaCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Salamander street (Edinburgh)

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By *orny-DJMan
over a year ago

Leigh-on-Sea

Mull of Kintyre - Wings

Down to Margate - Chas 'n' Dave

Day trip to Bangor - Fiddler's dram

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Welcome to Brixton - SR

Streatham- Dave

Birmingham - Mist

Edgeware Road- K Trap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How about Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel?

I always used to think it was about the city of Salisbury but apparently Solsbury is actually to the north of Bath

Good song anyway

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By *ilverjagMan
over a year ago

swansea

Last train to Glasgow central by Billy Connolly

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By *he KinkysCouple
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Caledonia- Paolo Nutini x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Long Haired Lover From Liverpool

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By *tsJustKateWoman
over a year ago

London

1. New England -Kirsty MacColl version.

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By *unsexual MemelordWoman
over a year ago

Midlothian

A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square, Vera Lynn.

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By *tacie-JaneTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

KLF…It’s grim up North.

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By *glyBettyTV/TS
over a year ago

About 3 feet away from the fence

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

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By *heeseandWineCouple
over a year ago

Reading and Southampton

Plaistow Patricia - Ian Dury

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

Quite a few repetitions so far but nobody has mentioned

Eric Clapton (His name should count) with

'Leysdown Sally'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Manchester by The Beautiful South "

Rotterdam -

- The beautiful south.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On ilkley moor baa tatt

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By *ama bamaMan
over a year ago

dalkeith

Salamander Street..... Callum Beattie.

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By *aulaxd2020TV/TS
over a year ago

Dudley

No sleep till Buxton by the Mac lads

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Easton-in-Gordano by the late great Adge Cutler.

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By *rust a TradieMan
over a year ago

staffs

Mull ‘o’ Kintyre

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By *0ng0 furyMan
over a year ago

Birkenhead

for what is chatteris... (half man half bicuit)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ladbroke Grove - AJ Tracey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Barking- ramz

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

The Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones

We all know he was on about Wales!

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By *ake_or_deathMan
over a year ago

Manchester

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By *ake_or_deathMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"The Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones

We all know he was on about Wales!

You can add Cardiff Afterlife, Valley Boy, This Sullen Welsh Heart and Together Stronger (C'mon Wales) by the Manics to your Wales playlist (among various others that don't specifically use a place name).

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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago

moon base zero

Southampton Dock by pink Floyd

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By *ane DTV/TS
over a year ago

Glasgow ish

Strawberry Fields - The Beatles

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Dorset Is Beautiful by The Yetties

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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago

moon base zero

Grantchester meadows by pink Floyd

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By *ailorJerryLoversCouple
over a year ago

South Herts

Streets of London - Ralph McTell

No-one?

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By *eronikapaulCouple
over a year ago

Reading

Kew Gardens is a better Ralph McTell?

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By *tead88Man
over a year ago

nine elms

London calling!

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By *ie n MashCouple
over a year ago

Back in Malice

"A bomb in Wardour street by The Jam "

Seeing as this is my all-time favourite song, cannot argue with this.

May not be the best song, but contender for most original title would be Half Man, Half Biscuit’s “All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit”.

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By *guycalleddazzleMan
over a year ago

Manchester

Fallowfield hillbilly courteeners

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By *irty-pairCouple
over a year ago

Essex

Stone’enge by Spinal Tap

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

Get Your Kicks On The A456

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

"The Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones

We all know he was on about Wales!

What, it was us that executed Tom Jones?!

(much as I love him, he deserved punishment for crimes against music for …Pussycat and Delilah, but that’s a bit harsh)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hope Street by The Levellers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Waterloo Sunset - Kinks"

...was my first thought too...but so many other good calls on this thread

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Eaton Rifles - The Jam

NewYork NewYork - Frank Sinatra

Lincoln County - The Kinks

Lincoln Limousine - Jerry Lee Lewis

Galway Girl - Ed Sheran

The Hully Gully - Chubby Checker

Grimsby - Elton John

Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel

Cal

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Also.

A New England - Kirsty McColl

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By *0ng0 furyMan
over a year ago

Birkenhead

Westward Ho!- Massive Letdown (half man half biscuit)

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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago

London

Twenty Four minutes from Tulse Hill

The Taking of Peckham 123

Midnight on the Murder Mile

Sealed with a Glasgow Kiss

The Only Living Boy in New Cross

And God created Brixton

All Carter USM

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

London Calling by the Clash.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lancashire d.j by the Lancashire hotpots.

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By *talymaleMan
over a year ago

dartford

Eaton rifles The Jam

Londons Calling The clash

And who could forget George Formby and his little stick of Blackpool rock lol

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

I’ll Never Leave Old Durham Town - Roger Whittaker

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By *wingin CatMan
over a year ago

London

Hitchin A Ride - Vanity Fare

.....I'll get me coat.

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By *wingin CatMan
over a year ago

London

Young Herts Run Free - Candi Staton

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By *arren and AliciaCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more

Lewis no more, Skye no more

Proclaimers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Durham Town

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

Tied up in Nottz by Sleaford Mods

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By *urchoicenowCouple
over a year ago

Ashford

Birmingham Blues ELO

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