Newman, Randy - Birmingham Lyrics

Fuck yeah

He remains one of our greats. There is something about his songs that touches your heart ___

Wow, he looks fun.

Rolling Stones spider to the fly

Great video. :)

Love this song

my dad ain't no barber, but ...

That's not how you pronounce Birmingham though.

This batch might be his masterwork, but it's hard to say 'cuz it's all so fuckin' good.

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Ain't no ham like Birmingham

Guy is amazing. He can take music that sounds like it belongs coming out of an ice cream truck and he makes it sound like this. Amazing. 👍 love it

really, man... I know who you are

@Caio Lesterman: why start the information with a sorry?!! Just focus on the beautiful song!

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heard this on the radio and instantly heard you got a friend in me and i had to find out who sang this song and of course it was Randy Newman lol

boy oh boy.   when it comes to political satire,   you can't beat randy newmam.

Incredible songwriting, .... average voice..... and all the more endearing and wonderful for it. The two needn't be mutually dependent. I love this.

Birmingham loves you, Dan

Definitely one of America's greatest storytellers.  You are such a talent randy and have fans and people that apprectiate you whom you'll likely never meet...Ed<><

Get'em Dan!

Randy looking hot here - great artist/writer

He brings a tear to my WRY.

a few weeks ago he played in the Birmingham Lyric Theater

How many here are from Alabama? I am.

+XplodingInsect The best thing to come out of Alabama is i-20....................
Just a joke we tell in Georgia.

@porkinwitz I thought I was pretty cool too.  But that is funny

+porkinwitz No reason for Ala anyway. They should put Miss and Ala back with Georgia and save a few bucks.

+Philip Campbell klan ran the government, socialist or capitalistic back then. When you talk about whites, are you talking about the incestous ones who don't hang out with nobody or the Pat Trammells who everyone likes? Nobody hated Pat but unfortunately his kind was way too few due to jealousy within your community.

I frikin LOVE Randy Newman!

Get 'em, Dan.

There is no such thing as "White" people. There are European people, African people, Asian people, Latin American people, etc. White is a meaningless category created by a racial system. Unless your ancestors lived in Whiteland, you aren't "white."

Steve Goldfield That might be stupidest thing I've ever read.

Sorry Beardo Whitee Lives!

Well, I damned sure ain't "colored."

ohhhhhh pleeeeeeeeeeze

Steve Goldfield thank you

Home Town Birmingham     See Me Smile !

Baton Rouge is my second country and love it as much as I love my own city. America I love you

The music of this guy was the one that Cathi like it so it is what i like too

Got a wife got a family
Earn my livin' with my hand
I'm a roller in a steel mill
In downtown Birmingham

My daddy was a barber
And a most unsightly man
He was born in Tuscaloosa
But he died right here in Birmingham

CHORUS
Birmingham Birmingham
The greatest city in Alabam'
You can travel 'cross this entire land
But there's no place like Birmingham

Got a wife named Mary
But she's called Marie
We live in a three room house
With a pepper tree

And I work all day in the factory
That's alright with me
Got a big black dog
And his name is Dan

Who lives in my backyard in Birmingham
He is the meanest dog in Alabam'
Get 'em Dan

CHORUS
Birmingham Birmingham
The greatest city in Alabam'
You can travel 'cross this entire land
But there's no place like Birmingham

Such a great melody, such beautiful, compassionate lyrics. Randy Newman, I don't know how you do it, but you are an absolute treasure.

Compassion for things I don't know? I really don't understand... :S

great song by randy newman.

Mr. OG, I beleive your reply to this young person is truly one of the most beautiful comments I've ever read on YouTube. I can tell from your words that your heart is good and your Spirit sings of higher places. I hope you live in Birmingham. I do.

Awesome. I love it, thanks for sharing!

Son, your generation hasn't done a thing to harm beautiful music, and there's nothing for you to apologize for. If this music speaks to you - all the harmonic movement, the tenderness, beauty, melody, and novel-like detail and content - then, in Randy's words, "get 'em Dan". Listen, learn, and grow, and someday you'll be giving back.

randy newman for the win.. Randy please come to seattle @!

but it is about Birmingham Alabama not england roll tide

i here that i grew up listening to old bluegrass so i hate what our generation has done (16 btw)

what has our generation done?

Im 13, and i sincerely apoligize for what my generation has done to music

I just cant get over the fact that an artist like Randy Newman wrote a song about my city

It is not complimentary. ICYMI

I love my state especially my city bham ..205 stand up !

205 ... Yes sir !

@leecaw yo i think you're right for the most part but it's not just southern whites, its ALL people who live in the south

make this a anthem for the city hell sweet home alabama is damn near the state song

I was born in Birmingham. :D

The six people who dislike this are Yankees.

Wonderful piano playing

get em dan!

decided to try this great song on guitar, go easy on me now randy :)

@diegozulloz I would, but in the UK not many people are called Randy. Partly because 'randy' has sexual connotations!

Love all his songs about american towns - but this one's definetely the best!

love how ppl perceive the state negatively, especially when most have never lived nor stayd here for any amount of time. /ive been many places and Alabama i can honestly say is the only one of them ill ever call home..

if I will have a pet, i'll call him Randy.

@waylander1978 hes talking about birmingham alabama not fruity england alabama best state in the world roll tide

@waylander1978 hes talking about alabama dumbshit

he looks like a more built version of lennon here

Birmingham is okay, as long as you stay south, or in the middle. Otherwise, you'll get a hole in your shirt quick.

Brilliant comment ____ great use of words. You deserve credit. I will give it to you. YOU ARE A PUTZ WITH EARS

Brilliant as ever.

Newman ,artist or not ,is the typical guy that hides from LIFE , like only belgian cops do. Herrr socilaistic UBERminsh from his secret position of unterminsh...(it's his gamelife is a game ) well well! ,
Newman is inspired and at least brings on songs thatwere worldly recognized as "with sense" The others only rise hell like only glorious bastard want. So it clearly appears, so it IS.

As much as I love this song I find it surreal becuase I live near Birmingham in England and it's a total shithole.

@GarageDoorMan55 Aww, that's wonderful. :-) Have you got his book to play his songs?

Red headed lady reaching for an apple... gonna take a bite... uhh, nope nope... she gonna breath on it first... wipes it on her blouse...

[pauses] She takes a bite... chews it once... twice... three times... four times... stops...

Saliva working... takes a long hard look at ... Five times... oh her Fat ol' husband walkin' over.

Now they walkin' down the road... left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot

@hrothgleas "Butt ugly" works good too.

Kind of makes you think, doesn't it? What would my life sound like if someone wasn't trying to make any points, wasn't being judgmental or poking fun...what would my life sound like if Randy Newman just delivered the facts in a song?

Hey I have a black dog too but his names not Dan

One of top 5 songwriters IMO. Can command the best string sections. sidemen, etc. this country has to offer. He's one the most gifted arrangers EVER. Spent all my life in Alabama for the most part and 'Good Old Boys' came out when I was 16 and it is still one of my favorites. You almost have to be from the south.....pity if you don't get it. Sorry for your mental shortcomings idiotfullstop.

@MoveOverCasanova well Sir as many people think they have knowledge about every subject matter you sir are one of those . Tis better to be thought as a fool than to speak as one.
Signed
Birmingham , Alabama USA

@davepunkrock1

Yeah but then the song would be sung negatively because England sucks.

retarded

he should make a song about Birmingham UK

Love it so much...

@hrothgleas
i didn´t say they don´t love it!
btw, at last it is always his point of view!

"you can travel cross this entire land, there ain´t no place like birmingham" -
well, i never was in U.S.A., but knowing newman this can only be meant sarcastically,-
i guess birmingham is just a complete dull spot looking just the same like every
other with absolutely nothing special about it! right?

This song...along with all of the others on Good Old Boys is about the salt of the earth...literally in a sense...low income whites of a southern persuasion that live, breathe, love, and die every day in obscurity

Yes, the song is ironic in the dramatic sense - what is really being sung about is never expressed. Poor show with the 'Londonderry' all the same - the 'Irish' take no pride in that, I can assure you!

are there videos of other performances from this set? its great to see him rock the sail away glasses. there's gotta be more...

Some people criticize, "HOW CAN YOU MENTION BIRMINGHAM WITHOUT THE RACIAL TENSIONS!? Civil Rights Movement, Civil Rights Movement!"

I mean, yeah that was a big moment, but to the rest of the world Birmingham was a footnote in history, to Alabamians its more than just small period of time, the living, breathing, working, and dying of normal people there everyday far exceeds to our memory what happened forty something years ago.

@Tlaxcalianos Political Science.

does anyone recall a song by him , for a Bomb , he wanted to drop ??

What an artist - so many great songs. He looks handsome here.

<3 L.ove it.

hes obviously never been to birmingham in the uk :)

birmingham, birmingham, the greatest city in alabama.

He's not really blind.

sounds like it....i always thought he was black lol

did he to the song in toy story? i think so haven't herd this voice in a while

Theas noh plääs läk Bömingheeam!

I named my black Lab "Dan" strictly because of this song.

what a musician folks - i t all sounds like on the fair, and that´s the intention --
what lies beneath definitely astounds the musician

Randy does a great job with this song, the original was written and preformed by the same guy that first made Dales marinade sauce(his first name was Dale I can't remember his last name). He owned a steak house in Birmingham AL a long time ago.

there aint no place like Birmingham England its a shithole lol Never been Birmingham Alabama though it has got to be nicer everything is nice lol

what you talkin bout? dere aint no place like New Orleans and dats a fakt Jaque!

there's whiskey in a jar