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What is your favorite song that actually tells a story?

Posted on 04/22/2022 3:56:36 PM PDT by Beowulf9

I admit I saw this elsewhere but I thought it might be a good thing to put here because honestly I look and listen to songs people post. I am always entertained and it opens my mind to many different avenues of musical tastes I have not known before. I hope ones like this column.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; songs; story
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To: Celtic Conservative
“The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot.

Good one.

81 posted on 04/22/2022 4:13:02 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Stagger Lee/Stagolee was a folk song that was around decades before them. The real incident happened in 1895. LLoyd Price hat a #1 hit with it in 1959.


82 posted on 04/22/2022 4:13:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Beowulf9

Harry Chaplin - Taxi
Marty Robbins - El Paso

I narrowed it down to four.


83 posted on 04/22/2022 4:13:45 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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Speaking of sequel songs with a story.

Space Oddity
by David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVbk7r4IcA

and then

Major Tom (I’m Coming Home)
by Peter Schilling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMDbX1zksgI


84 posted on 04/22/2022 4:13:51 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Beowulf9

“Telegraph Road” by Dire Straits


85 posted on 04/22/2022 4:13:53 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: Beowulf9

The Last Farewell-Roger Whittaker.


86 posted on 04/22/2022 4:14:09 PM PDT by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: Beowulf9

I’m going to go with Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Honestly, the first time I ever heard the song, I was 8 years old and we’d just moved to a house that overlooked the St. Lucie River in Stuart.
Stormy, foggy, rainy day, and the chop was high on the water.
The lyrics really hit deep.

ANd I’m not sure if this counts, but I also love Penny Lane by the Beatles.


87 posted on 04/22/2022 4:14:28 PM PDT by Mermaid Girl
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To: Secret Agent Man
"Same with The Cure"

Like the retelling of Camus's The Stranger in "Killing an Arab".

88 posted on 04/22/2022 4:14:38 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Beowulf9

The Brady Bunch.

“Here’s the story...”


89 posted on 04/22/2022 4:14:39 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Beowulf9
Patches-Dickie Lee-1962
90 posted on 04/22/2022 4:14:45 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Beowulf9

Red Sovine—Big Joe and Phantom 309


91 posted on 04/22/2022 4:14:59 PM PDT by abigkahuna (15)
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To: Allegra
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

One of the most epic lines in any song -- ever.

92 posted on 04/22/2022 4:15:09 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Beowulf9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_of_the_Band

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_Old_Lang_Syne


93 posted on 04/22/2022 4:15:23 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Beowulf9

Frank Zappa:

Joe’s Garage

The Adventures of Greggory Peccary

Billy the Mountain


94 posted on 04/22/2022 4:15:29 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Beowulf9

So many...

RUSH: Red Barchetta, Xanadu, 2112
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Pirates, Lucky Man
ASIA: Sole Survivor, Ride Easy
Blue Oyster Cult: Don’t Fear the Reaper, The Marshall Plan
YES: South Side of the Sky
King Crimson: Fallen Angel, Easy Money, One More Red Nightmare


95 posted on 04/22/2022 4:15:35 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Beowulf9

Marine Corps Hymn
Been my favorite since July 1951...


96 posted on 04/22/2022 4:15:51 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Beowulf9

Big Bad John.


97 posted on 04/22/2022 4:16:06 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: Beowulf9

The whole Red Headed Stranger album, Willy Nelson


98 posted on 04/22/2022 4:16:15 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Beowulf9

Lynyrd Skynyrd-Gimme three steps.


99 posted on 04/22/2022 4:16:19 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I pledge allegiance to Hedy Lamarr)
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To: BudgieRamone

Bonnie Lass of Anglessy, I live Tempests version, Step it out Mary, Boiled in Leads version is good, Mary Reilly by the Bollox, John Reilly by Grada....


100 posted on 04/22/2022 4:16:33 PM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head)
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