List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama

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
 * "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