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Songs about Small Towns

My, we all get sentimental about our homes, don't we? While the big, gleaming metropolis' like New York and San Francisco get pages of tribute, nobody thinks to write a song about Podunk, Nebraska, until one singer from there happens to get famous and comes back to give it its due. So until the rest of the small towns produce their own singer, you're stuck listening to songs about someplace else.

There's a lot to be said for living in smaller cities. They're quieter, cleaner, and have lower crime. You can think a complete thought without being interrupted by wailing sirens and honking horns. You can hear the crickets and see the stars at night. Younger people find it just a little less boring than being buried alive, but once you mature, you look for the place that's a nice balance between the hustle and bustle and being stranded out in the boonies.

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  Big Dreams in a Small Town
  Restless Heart

  "Big dreams in a small town,
  Guess it's time to settle down.
  Don't ya like the way it sounds,
  Big dreams in a small town"

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  Break Up In A Small Town
  Sam Hunt
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  Chicken Fried
  Zac Brown Band

  "Well I was raised up beneath the shade of a Georgia Pine
  And that's home you know
  Sweet tea, pecan pie, and homemade wine where the peaches grow
  And my house it's not much to talk about
  But it's filled with love that's grown in southern ground"

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  Dirty Old Town
  Pogues, The

  "I met my love by the gas works wall
  Dreamed a dream by the old canal
  Kissed a girl by the factory wall
  Dirty old town"

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  Down Home
  Alabama

  "Down Home
  Where they know you by name and treat you like family
  Down Home
  A mans good word and a hand shake are all you need
  Folks know
  If they're fallin' on hard times they can fall back home
  Those of us raised up down home"

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  Ellsworth
  Rascal Flatts

  "A front porch light and a blue Desoto
  A couple of straws and a Coca-Cola, you can see it all going down
  A handsome boy in army green, a tear on his face, down on a knee
  Shaky voice, a diamond ring, she'll put you in that town
  Tomorrow she won't remember what she did today
  But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas, 1948"

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  Famous in a Small Town
  Miranda Lambert
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  Hicktown
  Jason Aldean
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  In a Small Town
  Kenny Chesney
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  Life in a Northern Town
  Dream Academy, The
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  Lukenbach, Texas
  Waylon Jennings
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  Main Street
  Bob Seger
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  Meanwhile Back At Mama's
  Tim McGraw

  "Oh I miss yeah a little dirt on the road, I miss corn growin' in a row
  I miss being somebody everybody knows there everybody knows everybody
  I miss those small town roots, walkin' around in muddy boots"

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  My City Was Gone
  Pretenders, The
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  My Little Town
  Simon & Garfunkel
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  On Melancholy Hill
  Gorillaz
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  Small Town
  John Mellencamp
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  Small Town Girl
  Steve Wariner
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  Small Town Southern Man
  Alan Jackson
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  Small Town Throwdown
  Brantley Gilbert
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  Small Town USA
  Justin Moore
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  Where I Come From
  Alan Jackson
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  Where I Grew Up
  Kenny Chesney
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  Where I'm From
  Jason Michael Carroll

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