Top five songs with a place name in the title

Top five songs with the name of an actual place in the title (no "Kokomo", "Itchycoo Park", etc.). Also, only places denoted by a political boundary (no "Across the Great Divide", "53rd and 3rd", "Downtown", etc.), though the boundary can be historical and or disputed (see item 3). The song does not have to be about said place, but must include it in the title

1. "India" - Psychedelic Furs
2. "London Calling" - The Clash
3. "Kashmir" - Led Zeppelin
4. "Memphis" - Chuck Berry
5. "The Only Living Boy in New York" - Simon and Garfunkel

new york new york - sinatra

stumped for the next 4

oops...long haired lover from LIVERPOOL - the one and only jimmy osmond

back in the USSR...does that count?

georgia on my mind
california dreamin'
alabama getaway (greatful dead -little birdie told me)

Munich
Limerick You're A Lady
It's a long way to Tipperary
Dublin's Fair City
The Leaving of Liverpool
The Streets of London
Belfast Child
Star of the County Down

I could go on all day.

Carter USM - The Only Living Boy in New Cross

fabulous, wish I could listen to it now on full volume
will have to have a quick think about the other 4...

Kathmandu — Cat Stevens (love the city, and the song brings back memories)
Georgia — Ray Charles
Canadian Driftwood — the Band
First We Take Manhattan — Leonard Cohen
Nashville Skyline Rag — Bob Dylan

one night in bangkok
green river (my home town)
sweet home alabama
california girls
dixieland delight
(might think of more - but they actually want me to work today )

Streets of Philadelphia -- Bruce Springsteen
Walking in Memphis -- Marc Cohn
Do You Know The Way To San Francisco -- erm...
Sweet Home Alabama -- Lynrd Skinerd
Born in the USA -- Bruce Springsteen

Hotel California - Eagles
California Love - Tupac Shakur
I Love LA - Randy Newman
California - Phantom Planet
California Girls - Beach Boys

America- Simon & Garfunkel
Africa- Toto
Lion in Zion- Bob
Babylon is Falling- Steel Pulse (theoretical place, but still)
Going back to Cali- (can't remember.. surely not the best but I like it)

Whichita lineman - Jimmy Webb/ Glen Campbell
Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
From St Kilda to Kings Cross ( ha! - a double !) - Paul Kelly
California - Joni Mitchell
Tenterfield Saddler - Peter Allen

@moilv : love america, pehaps my fav S&G song.

i assumed things like USA and America were not really implied

Babylon is not a theoretical place - it's not a city any more, but it was once a thriving metropolis a relatively short car ride away south (I believe) of modern day Baghdad.

Come Back To Camden- Morrissey
24 Minutes To Tulse Hill- Carter USM
Alaskan Pipeline- James
America Is not The World- Morrissey
Munich Air Disaster- Morrissey
Amsterdam- Coldplay
Angel of Harlem- U2
Australia- Manic Street Preachers
Rusholme Ruffians- The Smiths
Dakota- Stereophonics
English Rose- The Jam
This is England- The Clash
Essex Dogs- Blur

@rus .. obviously the concept of five is too much for some...

Noooooooooooooo!
I thought you had good taste until I read that, Rus, I'm disappointed in you.

Just how crap are Coldplay? They are setting new standards of crapness for the new millenium with every album... pretty soon they'll be as crap as the Eagles, FFS

edit - actually, thinking about it, though, New Amsterdam by Elvis Costello would definitely make the shortlist.

Yeah, but in Raggae songs it symbolizes theWestern world and its corruption, na?

Really? I thought modern day Baghdad was formerly Babylon? You learn something new everyday...

you made me doubt myself, there, JW, so I dashed off to Wikipedia it...
here's the article on Babylon
it's a 100km south of Baghdad, apparently (follow the link to Al Hillah)

@MoiLV - yeah, and not just Reggae songs (e.g. Babylon's Burning by The Ruts is punk), but whatever the imagery of the name, it's still not a theoretical place.

New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
California Dreamin' - Mamas and the Papas

can't think of any others that I like...

Santa Monica - Everclear

I can probably come up with more but my minds blank at the moment

I couldnt narrow it down to 5

Not trying to prove you wrong, but this link is interesting: rasta dictionary


That's just what I meant by theoretical, in the sense of the usage in the song I added to my list.

Christchurch -- Exponents
Montego Bay
Straight outta Compton -- NWA
Aotearoa

Nas - New York State of Mind
Half-man Half-biscuit - All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit
The Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians
Roxy Music - India
2Pac - To Live and Die in LA
Kraftwerk - Tour de France
Jay-Z & Notrious BIG - Brooklyn's Finest

...not on my list, but for some unknown reason still ringing in my ears from summers gone by:
Vengaboys - We're going to Ibiza

And Baghdad was only founded in 762AD... I had assumed that it was built on Babylon as Baghdad is such a huge city. I thought it would be rare for a huge modern day metropolis to have the capital of an ancient civilization basically right next door, but then I saw that...

Cairo vs. Memphis
Carthage vs. Tunis
Persepolis vs. Teheran

Etc...

While we are talking about Baghdad: Bombs Over Baghdad -- Outkast

Conglomerate of
"If You're Going to San Francsico" (Scott McKenzie shoulda been shot for that one, but the hippies were all too stoned)
and
"Do You Know the Way to Santa Fé?" - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (?)
A Warm San Francisco Night - Eric Burdon and the Animals
In Brooklyn - Al Stewart
California, Here I Come - Al Jolson

There's San Jose too...

Of course, you are right. You owe me a beer (Wer Recht hat, zahlt die nächste Maß).

Heads Carolina, Tails California- Jo Dee Massina
Canadian Sunrise- Prairie Oyster
100th Meridian- Tragically Hip (is a place- there is a marker there!)
Ireland- Garth Brooks
Beaches Of Cheyanne- Garth Brooks

I also like Hotel California, California Dreaming, Prairie Town, Rotterdam, One Night in Bangkok, Devil went down to Georgia, New York, American Women, and of course- Oh, Canada!

Forgot my all-time favorite: Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips

Where's Sin?

London Calling and Guns of Brixton - The Clash
Going to California - Zeplin (all these cali songs - for that matter California Love - Tupac)

You could also have picked "I'm so bored with the U.S.A." by the Clash
also a top tune

Born in the USA- by the Boss!

Rocky Top-Best played by the University of Tennessee's Pride of The Southland Marching Band

Tennessee Waltz-Patsy Cline

Stars Fell on Alabama-Jimmy Buffet

All My Ex's Live in Texas (And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee)-George Strait

On Broadway-George Benson

Extra just because:
Tennessee Stud-Johnny Cash
Tennessee-Arrested Development
Tennessee Homesick Blues-Dolly Parton
My Tennessee Mountain Home -Dolly Parton
Memphis, Tennessee-Chuck Berry
Tennessee Jed-Grateful Dead
Tennessee Christmas-Alabama

I didn't google any of these (except to get the artists):

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynard Skynard (Scratch that one, too)
Arkansas Traveler - Traditional
Californication (coz all the other CA songs have been named) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Walking Back to Georgia - Jim Croce
Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor
Maryland, My Maryland - James Ryder Randall
Massachusetts - Bee Gees
Mississippi - Pussycat
A Heart in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
Oklahoma! - Rogers & Hammerstein
Tennesee Waltz - Patti Page (I think that won't count, been posted)
Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller

Feel free to complete.

Alberta Bound (but only because "4 Strong Winds" doesn't have it in the title)
Sweet Home Alabama
First We Take Manhattan
Avalon
Do you know the way to Amarillo?

Is This the Way to Amarillo?
@UpQuark, BTW, Kokomo is very, very real. My auntie lived there. Not on this one, though.

Oh yeah. Know the music, not the words so good. Oh well. Well, American Woman can take its place, as I know the title of that one and like it a lot too.

Does Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay count?

'Frisco Blues - John Lee Hooker
San Francisco Bay Blues - Richie Havens
I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Frank Sinatra
San Francisco (be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
San Francisco - Beach Boys
San Francisco - Village People

...and some I just found on the 'net (some I've never heard of):

San Francisco - Olsen Brothers
San Francisco - Vaness Carleton
The Sound of San Francisco - Global Deejays
San Francisco Days - Chris Isaak
Ballad of San Francisco - Call Caedmon
San Francisco - Alkaline Trio
San Francisco Fat - NOFX
Fake Tales of San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
San Francisco Fan - Cab Calloway
Christmas in San Francisco - Vic Damone
San Francisco - Judy Garland
San Francisco - Jeanette MacDonald
Streets of San Francisco - Sanford Clark
San Franciscan Nights - The Animals
San Francisco Teardrops - Marty Robbins
Hello, San Francisco - Buddy Guy
Let's Go to San Francisco - Flowerpot Men
San Francisco Rose - Jim Nemeth
On a San Francisco High - Sony Holland

I Left My Heart in San Francisco is a wee bit better known from Tony Bennett, but Frank did sing it.

From the house o' punk:
Holiday in Cambodia
Viva Las Vegas (not the Elvis version)
Anarchy in The Uk
Planet Claire
Mesopotamia

I didn't know that, but now that you mention it, the million or so times I can remember hearing it didn't really sound like Frank Sinatra. Must have been Bennett then. I just thought of it, and when I googled San Francisco lyrics, Sinatra came up.

West End Riot - Living End
Down Under - Men At Work
Great Southern Land - Icehouse, I think.
Hotel California - Eagles
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynard Skynard
...and that other song that goes 'I gues it rains down in Africaaaaaa!' - or something like that.

I bless the rains down in Africa. Africa - Toto. Another one for misheard lyrics. I personally always thought it was I felt the rains, and just found it right now whilst googling.

I don't want to go to Chelsea - Elvis Costello
Wichita Lineman - Glenn Campell
American Pie - Don Mclean
Eton Rifles - The Jam
And of course' I'm going to leave old Durham Town - Roger Whittiker!'
With the the immortal line about sitting on the banks of the river Tyne, which is a good trick seeing as the Tyne doesn't actually go through Durham!

Night Train to Munich - Al Stewart
I Love Paris - Maurice Chevalier
The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain - Lowe (?)
New York's Not My Home - Jim Croce
Tallahassee Lassie - Dunno

i left my heart in San Francisco
georgia on my mind
(can't remember the artists )

Dont think anyone has mentioned Mull of Kintyre yet. Its by Paul Mccartney, but the Rod Stewart and Foster & Allen versions are pretty good too.

*retch*
my god, kza, i thought better of you
mull of kin-fucking-tyre, whatever next?