List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama explained

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

• "Birmingham, Alabama" by Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves
• "Birmingham Bertha" by Ethel Waters (1929) (from On with the Show!)
• "Birmingham Black Bottom" by Charlie Johnson (1927)
• "Birmingham Blues" by Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) (1921)
• "Birmingham Blues" by The Charlie Daniels Band (1997)
• "Birmingham Bounce" by Tommy Dorsey (1946)
• "Birmingham Breakdown" by Duke Ellington (1926)
• "Birmingham Bus Station" by Charlie Daniels Band (1994)
• "Birmingham Daddy" by Gene Autry
• "Birmingham Jail" by Lead Belly
• "Birmingham Shadows" by Bruce Cockburn (1995)
• "Birmingham Sunday" by Richard Farina, recorded by Joan Baez
• "Birmingham Turnaround" by Keith Whitley
• "Birmingham" by Amanda Marshall
• "Birmingham" by Drive-By Truckers (2002)
• "Birmingham" by Randy Newman
• "Birmingham" by Shovels & Rope (2012)
• "Boulder to Birmingham" by Emmylou Harris
• "Breakfast in Birmingham" by David Lee Murphy
• "Down and Out in Birmingham" by Pirates of the Mississippi
• "Hello Birmingham" by Ani DiFranco^[1]
• "I Got a Man in a 'Bama Mine" by Merline Johnson (1937)
• "Mining Camp Blues" by Trixie Smith (1925)
• "Notifier Birmingham" by The Mountain Goats (1995)
• "Paint Me a Birmingham" by Tracy Lawrence (2004)
• "Postmarked Birmingham" by Blackhawk
• "Pratt City Blues" by Jabo Williams (1932)
• "Sparrows over Birmingham" by Josh Rouse
• "Sweet Birmingham" by Robert Moore (first recorded by Taj Mahal)
• "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974)
• "Talking Birmingham Jam" by Phil Ochs (1965)
• "The Old Iron Hills" by Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
• "Train to Birmingham" by John Hiatt
• "Tuxedo Junction" by Erskine Hawkins
• "When Jesus Left Birmingham" by John Mellencamp (1993)

Birmingham is also mentioned in the following:

• "Alabama Chicken" by Sean Hayes (2003)
• “Birmingham” by Zach Bryan (2020)
• "Black Betty" by Huddie Ledbetter/Ram Jam
• "Cities" by Talking Heads (1979)
• "Gun Street Girl" by Tom Waits (1985)
• "Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going back to Birmingham)" by Bob Seger
• "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" by Little Richard
• "I Can't Love You Anymore" by Lyle Lovett
• “I Wish Grandpas Never Died” by Riley Green (2019)
• "If It Hadn't Been For Love" by The Steeldrivers (2008)
• "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" by Bob Dylan (2020)
• "Jacob's Ladder" by Bruce Hornsby (first recorded by Huey Lewis and the News) (1987)
• "Maribel" by Andy Offutt Irwin
• "Old Iron Hills" by Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster (2009)
• "One of These Days" by Drive-By Truckers
• "Playboy Mommy" by Tori Amos (1998)
• "Postmarked, Birmingham" by Blackhawk
• "Promised Land" by Chuck Berry (later remade as a 1975 hit for Elvis Presley)
• "Rip This Joint" by The Rolling Stones (1972)
• "Run Baby Run" by Sheryl Crow (1993)
• "Southern Hospitality" by Trinity the Tuck (2022)
• "Stars Fell on Alabama" by Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish (1934)
• "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Swordfishtrombone" by Tom Waits (1983)
• "Black Betty" by Ram Jam

External links

• "Directory of African-Appalachian musicians" (March 22, 2004) Black Music Research Journal

Notes and References

1. Web site: Song lyrics. Danah.org.