What is your favorite song that actually tells a story?

[stanne]

Play it loud with a good sound system the way it was meant to be played

[Buttons12]

I’ve always loved boomer tunes, so there’s two...three in mind now. Tennessee Waltz, and It’s My Party (which has a sequel, I think: Judy’s Turn To Cry).

[stanne]

“foggy dew”

Irish ballad

Siena’s O’Connor version is the best

[stanne]

Senead

[jjotto]

Irish rebel songs are too easy!

The Man from Mullingar

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4khFFP-yttM

[virgil]

Edmund Fitzgerald

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

He’s the man who never returned.

[combat_boots]

Did you say thunder?

This tells a visual story

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tx6FsDC4i3s

[Cloverfarm]

“She Talks to Angels” ... The Black Crowes ... reminds me of various co-workers :-(

[EVO X]

The Girl From Yesterday” - Eagles

Good song. I like the song "Get over it" it still applies today....

[Paal Gulli]

In the southern part of Texas, east and west of El Paso
Where the mighty Franklin Mountains guard the trail to Mexico
There's a new-made widow crying and a hearse a-rollin' slow
I guess that devil's passed this way again.

There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees
And a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze.
He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees
And he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

[Chorus:]
Poor Billy Bonney, you're only 21,
Pat Garrett's got your name on every bullet in his gun.
Each notch carved on your six gun
Has a bloody tale to tell.
You're a mile ahead of Garrett and a step outside of Hell.

Charlie Daniels painted brilliant images with words.

[dfwgator]

Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce

[stanne]

Nice. Hub was an A-10 driver.

[stanne]

“Melissa”. ABB

[jjotto]

Oh yeah. I get The Dead on SiriusXM channel. Not sure how I ever missed the Dead doing ‘El Paso’.

[Robert DeLong]

Arlo Guthrie - The Motorcycle song (Studio Version)

[The Duke]

“On the Border” by Al Stewart

[karbine]

Finally! Dang, I wanted to post this. Incredible ballad.
Then there is “Dickens’Dublin (The Palace)
Siegfried Fietz singt ‘Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen’
If you know the story behind this hauntingly beautiful,
painfully bittersweet song, you’ll be forever committed to
the study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer—one of the greatest anti-
Nazi heroes of WW2.

[stanne]

Don’t doubt me. Find it.

[stanne]

It is from the steal your face record.