List of Songs About London - S

"Sad Mona Lisa" by Television Personalities
"St James Infirmary Blues" (famous blues/jazz song based on English folk song with St James hospital having been in London)
"St James Park in Spring" by Haydn Wood
"St James Walk" by The Clientele
"St Pauls Beneath a Sinking Sky" by The Clientele
"St Pauls Suite" by Gustav Holst
"Sal and Methuselam" by F.C. Sansom (probably 1866, sung by William H. Lingard)
"Sale of the Century" by Sleeper
"Salvador Dalí's Garden Party" by Television Personalities (Kensington Market)
"Sam Hall" (composer unknown) performed by W.G. Ross ("I goes up Holborn Hill in a cart")
"Sam's Town" by The Killers
"Santa Ain't Commin Down to Brixton Town" by Jackie Robinson
"Saturday Gigs" by Mott the Hoople
"Saturday In The Kings Road" by Harry Robinson and his Orchestra
"Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees" by The Leyton Buzzards ('I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road' and also 'Crews from Balham and Golders Green..')
"Saturday Night Rush" by Earl Zinger
"Saturday Night Facts of Life" by Comet Gain The Cribs
"Saturday Nite" by Earth, Wind & Fire
"Save Piccadilly" by Abednego and the Piccadilly Street Choir
"Save the World, Get the Girl by The King Blues
"Scarlet Begonias" by Grateful Dead ("As I was walking 'round Grosvenor Square...")
"Schooltime Chronicle" by Smiley Culture (Tulse Hill, Stockwell, Kennington)
"SE18" by The Visitors (2003)
"Second Floor Croydon" by Burnin' Red
"Second Hand" by Wilfrid Brambell (1962: namechecks London locations and sung as if by Steptoe senior)
"See My Friends" by The Kinks ("They'll cross the river..." Thames)
"Sergeant Sharp of Lincoln's Inn" by Walter Greenaway and Alfred Lee
"Serpentine Gallery" by Alternative TV
"Seven Dials" by Madness
"Seven Sisters Road" by Dan Reed Network
"Seven Sisters Road" by Alien Stash Tin
"Seven Sisters to Silverlake" by Comet Gain
"7Teen" by The Regents Soho
"Sew Another Pearly Button On My Coat" by The Pearly Minstrels
"The Sewers Of the Strand" by Spike Milligan
"Shad Thames" by Saint Etienne
"Shakin' Up (Downing Street)" by Bad Manners
"Sheila" by Jamie T
"She Was Poor But She Was Honest" by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee ("Then she ran away to London to hide her grief and shame")
"Shouting for the Gunners" by Arsenal FC and Tippa Irie
"Shut 'em Down In London Town" by The Majority
"Sid's Song" by Inner City Unit ("In London town where I was born")
"Sights of London" by Arthur Lennard
"Sights and Sounds of London Town" by Richard Thompson
"Sightsee MC" by Big Audio Dynamite
"Signs" by Snoop Dogg & Justin Timberlake
"Sing A Song Of London" by Stanley Holloway
"Singers Hampstead Home" by Microdisney
"Sir Keith at Lambeth" by Mount Vernon Arts Lab
"Sirens of Acre Lane" by Genaside II (Acre Lane is in Brixton)
"Silvertown Blues" by Mark Knopfler
"Six O'Clock" by Tyrell Corporation
"Skeleton Horse" by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins (in The Highbury Working)
"Slaughter at Primrose Hill" (I) by Frank Popp
"Slim Slow Slider," by Van Morrison ("Saw you walking down by Ladbroke Grove this morning...")
"Slow Down at the Castle" by Saint Etienne
"The Smart Walking Jockey" by MR Cob and WM Shield ("Wherever I go from Mile End to Soho")
"Small Town Girl" by Good Shoes (References Raynes Park High School)
"Smashing Time" by Television Personalities
"The Smile" by David Essex
"Smithers-Jones" by The Jam (Waterloo Line)
"Soho" by Bert Jansch & John Renbourn
"Soho" by Brand X
"Soho" by DJ Bountyhunter
"Soho" by Edwin Astley & His Orchestra
"Soho" by Fats Waller (from 'The London Suite')
"Soho" by I Marc 4
"Soho" by Light of the World
"Soho" by Milt Sealey Trio
"Soho" by The Natives
"Soho" by Pop Instrumental De France
"Soho" by Run 229
"Soho" by Smart Alec
"Soho" by The Soul Brothers
"Soho A Go Go" by The Members
"Soho Cab Ride" by Ballistic Brothers
"Soho Fair" by Bert Weedon
"Soho Forenoons" by John Ireland (from Three London Pieces)
"Soho Jack" by Paul Brett
"Soho Mojo" by Spyro Gyra
"Soho (Needless to say)" by Al Stewart
"Soho Phaze" by Elixia
"Soho Sad Show" by Bobby Henry
"Soho Square" by Kirsty Maccoll
"Soho St Ives Tangier" by The Focus Group
"Soho Strut" by Secret Affair
"Solitary Confinement" by The Members
"Solo in Soho" by Phil Lynott
"Someone in London" by Godsmack
"Somers Town" by Jasmine Minks
"Song for Clay (Disappear Here)" by Bloc Party
"Song for Ruth Ellis" by Adam and the Ants ("Violence in Hampstead")
"So Rotton" by Blak Twang (London - West, East, South, North and NW)
"Sorted for E's and Wizz" by Pulp
"So So" by Gary Go
"South London Boroughs" by Burial
"Sound Bwoy Burial" by Gant (South, North, East and West London)
"Sound of the Suburbs" by The Members
"Sounds from the Street" by The Jam
"South of the River" by Mica Paris
"South London Aggro Girl" by The Gonads
"South-East Fifteen" by Humousexual
"Southern Belles in London Sing" by The Faint
"Southside" by the Southside Allstars (a grime song about South London)
"Souvenir of London" by Procol Harum
"Space Cakes" by Kaotic Chemistry ("North London posse in the place")
"Spirit" by Razorlight
"Sports Line London" by London Brass
"Spring-Heel'd Jack(The Terror of London)" by The Gonads
"The Spurs Song" by The Totnamites
"Stagger" by Underworld
"Stand Up Tall" by Dizzee Rascal
"Stanwell" by Action Pact
"Stardom in Acton" by Pete Townshend
"A State Procession (Buckingham Palace)" by Albert Ketelbey
"Statuesque" by Sleeper
"Stavordale Road, N5" by The Nips
"Stay Free" by The Clash
"Stone Thames" by Big Audio Dynamite
"A Story of a Musical Box" by Edward Kent ("They drove him in the van to Pentonville")
"Strange Town" by The Jam
"Streatham Hippodrome" by Cuppa T
"Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones
"Streets of London" by Ralph McTell, Blackmore's Night, Anti-Nowhere League
"Streets of London" by The Challengers (B-side to "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.")
Streets of Whitechapel by JC Carroll
"Street Tuff" by Rebel MC
"Strolling Down the Strand" by Fred Godfrey and Leslie Sarony
"Strolling in the Burlington" by Alfred Lee and Frank Green (Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly)
"Stukas über Shoreditch" by Johnny Throttle
"Sugarhouse Lane" by Saint Etienne
"Sugar & Spice" by Madness ("We bought a flat in Golders Green")
"Suicide on Downing Street" by Tim Finn
"Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
"Sunday" by Bloc Party
"Sunday Street" by Squeeze
"Sunday Afternoon In Belgrave Square" by Trevor Bilmuss
"Sunny Goodge Street" by Donovan
"Sunday Morning Camden Town" by Louis Philippe
"Sunny South Kensington" by Donovan
"Supreme" by Robbie Williams ("All the lonely hearts in London caught a plane and flew away")
"Surfin' SW12" by The Monochrome Set
"Suspicious Eyes" by The Rakes
"Suzy" by Benny Hill ("Now I wandered down into Soho")
"Suzy Was A Girl From Greenford" by Johnny G
"SW5" by Mike Silver
"Swan Wharf" by Saint Etienne
"Swedish Sin" by Billie the Vision and the Dancers
"Sweet London Lady" by Lou Christie
"The Sweet Salutation on Primrose Hill" - composer unknown (17th century)
"Sweet Thames Flow Softly" by Ewan MacColl Planxty
"Sweet Thing" by Van Morrison
"Swingin Beefeater" by The Tornadoes
"Swinging London" by Barbara Windsor
"Swinging London" by London
"Swinging London" by The Magnetic Fields
"Swinging London Town" by Girls Aloud
"Swinging London" by The Pretenders
"Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres" by Al Stewart
"Symphony No 2 A London Symphony" by Ralph Vaughan Williams (includes "Hampstead Heath on a August Bank Holiday Sunday" and "Bloomsbury Square on a November Afternoon")
"Symphony No 104 in D Major (London)" by Joseph Haydn