Favorite Crime Songs,songs with a crime in it.Tell us your favorites.Freeper Canteen 7~10~15

Free Republic ^ | July 10, 2015 | michael.sf

[Kathy in Alaska]

w h !!

Thanks, unique, for the cheering guys!

JimRed.....#400!!
Fledermaus.....#450!!

[GSWarrior]

Am I too late for the thread?

Brian Eno/John Cale - Crime in the Desert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP1RF2v6MuI

[Sir_Ed]

I had a song I taped off the radio back in the ‘70’s that was a great crime song, which I never knew the name of, nor have I heard it again.

A couple of lines went:

“two miles from the border, I fell down from my horse, I was too weak and tired, I could not ride no more. Jim just kept on riding, the gold was in his sack, I pulled my .44 boys, and shot him in the back.

“The sheriff’s men rode up on me, and took me back to town...they tied a rope around my neck, my feet was off the ground, they kicked away my footing, and I commenced to fall, my soul will burn in Hell, boys, for messin’ with the law.”

Great song!

Ed

[Heart-Rest]

Haven't found this on youtube or any other complete online version yet, but is this the song you are talking about?

"Messin' with the Law" - Wayne Erbsen

"Messin' with the Law" (Lyrics - Wayne Erbsen) - from a book excerpt

[Sir_Ed]

THAT’S IT!!! THANK YOU!

FREEPERS ROCK!

Thank you so much, Heart-Rest, I’ve been looking for that song forever!

See ya!

Ed

[Michael.SF.]

Great that your song was found, must have made a real impression on you to have remembered it that well for so long,

[Fiji Hill]

“Stagger Lee” tells of a barroom shooting in St. Louis in 1895. Lloyd Price’s version of the story was undoubtedly the biggest seller.

[Fiji Hill]

When this was popular in the summer of 1960, it got a lot of airplay on KFI--long before the station carried Rush Limbaugh. I didn't hear the song again until Youtube came along.

Bad Man's Blunder--The Kingston Trio

[Michael.SF.]

Am 640? You must be from LA, I do not recall them as a music station. I recall them as the Dodgers station!

[Michael.SF.]

I almost posted the Mississippi John Hurt version, but I do recall the Lloyd price version from when I was a kid.

[Yaelle]

loved it when I WAS jailbait, heh heh

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Damn! too bad we never met! ;)

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:) I remember feeling sad to turn 18.

[Fiji Hill]

In 1960, I had a tiny radio, shaped like a satellite, that got two radio stations fairly well—KRLA, a 50,000-watt station, whose transmitter was located in nearby South El Monte, and KFI, also 50,000 watts, with its transmitter and mast, built in 1948, over on the Orange County-LA County border. Dodger games—announced by Vin Scully—music and variety could be heard over KFI.