This is a list of songs about Birmingham, England, with lyrics in brackets where appropriate. Pato Banton – "Handsworth Riot" Broadcast – "Michael A Grammar" (Michael, wake up we're going back to Chelmsley Wood) Electric Light Orchestra – "Birmingham Blues" from Out of the Blue The Fall – "Birmingham School Of Business School" Go Kart Mozart – "Mrs Back-To-Front and the Bull Ring Thing" Rob Halford – "Made in Hell" (Metal came from foundries where the islands sound unfurled/The Bull Ring was a lonely place of concrete towers and steel) Johnny Foreigner – "Sometimes in the Bullring" Marie Lloyd – "Oh! Mr Porter" (Oh! Mister Porter, what shall I do?/I want to go to Birmingham and they're taking me on to Crewe) The Pogues – "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" Red Dragon and Flourgan – "Follow Me" (Follow we go London and Birmingham city) Sex Pistols – "Bodies" (She was a girl from Birmingham/She just had an abortion) The Smiths – "Panic" (Panic on the streets of London/Panic on the streets of Birmingham) Steel Pulse – "Handsworth Revolution" The Streets – "Turn The Page" (The hazy fog over the Bull Ring/The lazy ways the birds sing) Tippa Irie – "It's Good to Have the Feeling You're the Best" (Well I control the north, south, east and west/In London and Birmingham one have to confess) Mr Hudson and the Library – "2x2" (Two by two the lovers slip, Through the frozen streets of Birmingham) Jon Wilks – "I Can't Find Brummagem" (This Digbeth here I wouldn't know/I miss the rogues of Brummagem) (Traditional song rewritten for modern Birmingham)
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