Best Song Dedicated to Broomfield

New York’s got a bunch of songs; Chicago’s got a few. Hell, even St. Louis has been the subject of a couple of ditties. So why not Broomfield? That’s what Phil Long, who grew up in once-sleepy Broomfield, thought when he returned to his now-overgrown hometown after many years on the road as a singer and musician and found it to be almost unrecognizable. So Long, who is 37, wrote down his thoughts for “The Broomfield Song,” which he performed in November at a ceremony marking the official beginning of Broomfield County, Colorado’s 64th such municipality. “I should have stood the ground, I should have put up a fight,” the lyrics read. “But when you’ve been away so long that you lose your way, I guess you’ve got nothing to say.”