"Local Girls" is a song by British rock musician Graham Parker, recorded with his backing band the Rumour.

The idea for 'Local' is from remembering what it was like to be a boy at home, looking out the window, seeing a rather toothsome piece stroll by, nose in the air perhaps, down the quiet semi-detached suburban street, and knowing that she probably already (at 13/14 years of age) fancies herself as an army wife (I grew up next door to an army camp and the squaddies were always stealing the girlfolk) and is going to look upon your feeble advances with some disdain.

It's a fairly typical the-object-of-ones-desire-is-always-out-of-reach-type song, just about 30 times better and more pregnant with meaning/detail than pretty much anyone else on the planet could even begin to aspire to, is all".

[3]The song was originally written as a part of a larger concept on the Squeezing Out Sparks album to capture suburban life in England.

He commented on this, "In [Squeezing Out Sparks] I was kind of attempting a concept album about the suburbs of England, or at least trying to capture a vague approximation of suburban life.

[6] A music video for the song was also created, featuring Parker and the Rumour performing in a living room set.