This article lists songs about Boston, Massachusetts, including those set there, named after a location or feature of the city, or about a notable figure associated with the city.
It is not intended to include songs where Boston is simply "name-checked" along with various other cities.
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, songs and/or boston:
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“Lovers, forget your love,
And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
And he a winter breeze.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Music is so much a part of their daily lives that if an Indian visits another reservation one of the first questions asked on his return is: “What new songs did you learn?””
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“this planned
Babel of Boston where our money talks”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)