Theme of the Week # 15 : Places - countries/cities/ towns etc,. - Page 9

Song: Streets of London (1974) [Album: Spiral Staircase] ⭐️⭐️⭐️😭

Songwriter and Singer: Ralph McTell

Have you seen the old man

In the closed down market

Kicking up the papers

With his worn out shoes?

In his eyes, you see no pride

Hand held loosely at his side

Yesterday's paper

Telling yesterday's news

So, how can you tell me you're lonely

And say for you that the sun don't shine?

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old girl

Who walks the streets of London

Dirt in her hair

And her clothes in rags?

She's no time for talking

She just keeps right on walking

Carrying her home

In two carrier bags

So, how can you tell me you're lonely

And say for you that the sun don't shine?

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind

In the all night cafe

At a quarter past eleven

Same old man

Sitting there on his own

Looking at the world

Over the rim of his tea cup

Each tea lasts an hour

And he wanders home alone

So, how can you tell me you're lonely?

Don't say for you that the sun don't shine

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old man

Outside the seaman's mission

Memory fading with

The medal ribbons that he wears?

In our winter city

The rain cries a little pity

For one more forgotten hero

And a world that doesn't care

So, how can you tell me you're lonely

And say for you that the sun don't shine?

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you through the streets of London

I'll show you something to make you change your mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92_qgqj9cx8

Song: Brooklyn Roads (1968)

Singer- Songwriter: Neil Diamond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_7ZeUmS-8

If I close my eyes

I can almost hear my mother

Callin', "Neil, go find your brother

Daddy's home, and it's time for supper

Hurry up"

And I see two boys

Racin' up two flights of staircase

Squirmin' into Papa's embrace

And his whiskers warm on their face

Where's it gone?

Oh, where's it gone?

Two floors above the butcher

First door on the right

Life filled to the brim

As I stood by my window

And I looked out on those

Brooklyn Roads

I can still recall

The smells of cookin' in the hallways

Rubbers drying in the doorways

And report cards I was always

Afraid to show

Mama'd come to school

And as I'd sit there softly crying

Teacher'd say, "He's just not trying

He's got a good head if he'd apply it"

But you know yourself

It's always somewhere else

I built me a castle

With dragons and kings

And I'd ride off with them

As I stood by my window

And looked out on those

Brooklyn Roads

Thought of going back

But all I'd see are stranger's faces

And all the scars that love erases

But as my mind walks through those places

I'm wonderin'

What's come of them

Does some other young boy

Come home to my room

Does he dream what I did

As he stands by my window

And looks out on those

Brooklyn Roads

This song, to me, embodies the essence of homesickness and nostalgia. I love it so darn much!

Song: Englishman in New York (1987) [Album: Nothing like the sun]

Singer- songwriter: Sting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk

I rediscovered this song thanks to this theme.. so thank you, Raji!

This was a childhood favorite! Whenever we passed the suburb of Chinchpokli on our B.E.S.T bus rides, my bro and I would break into this song! Mumbaiites can possible relate 😆

Shamshad Begum is such a rockstar! ⭐️

Song: Chinchpokli Chinchpokli

Film: Shabistan (1951)

Music: Madan Mohan

Lyrics; Qamar Jalalabadi

Singers: Shamshad Begum/ Madan Mohan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYSgX-QbSlk

Chennai/ Madras

Song: Madrasai sutti pakka poren [Tamil] (I'm going sightseeing around Madras)

Film: May madham (1994)

Music: A.R. Rahman

Lyrics: Vairamuthu

Singers: Shahul Hameed, Swarnalatha, G.V. Prakash, Manorama

Actors: Vineeth, Sonali Kulkarni, Manorama, Master Anand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzrvVGKnGZw

Song: Evarikevaru Ee Lokamlo

MovieL Siri Siri Muvva (Telugu)

Lyricist: Veturi

Music: K.V.Mahadevan

Actors: Jaya Prada, Chandramohan

Evarikevaru Ee Lokamlo

Song: Africa (1982) [Album: Toto IV]

Songwriters: David Paich, Jeff Porcaro

Artist: Toto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY

Alisha Chinai's Made in India.

Dekhi hai saari duniya Japan se leke Russia, Australia se leke America

Made in India bas dil chahiye ek made in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvloHsmi_vg

Aisa mouka fir kahan milega humare jaisa dil kahan milega

Aao tumko dikhlata hoon Paris ki ek rangeen shaam

Film : An Evening In Paris (1964)

Song : Aji Aisa Mauka Phir Kahan Milega

Cast : Shammi Kapoor

Singer : Mohammed Rafi

Music : O. P. Nayyar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDpEAeCid4g

A flirting husband's call from Rangoon, expressing a fake longing for his wife --

Rangoon, Burma, and Dehradun

Song ▶ Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon

Movie ▶ Patanga (1949)

Actor(s) ▶ Gope, Nigar Sultana

Singer(s) ▶ Chitalkar Ramchandra, Shamshad Begum

Music ▶ Chitalkar Ramchandra

Lyrics ▶ Rajinder Krishan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alceWhaicrU