Songs having to do with Crime

[Old Yeller]

As a tribute to the DemonicRat party, tell us your favorite songs having to do with crime or criminals.

[dfwgator]

Intruder - Peter Gabriel

[dfwgator]

Doobie Brothers- I Cheat the Hangman

[Fiji Hill]

Infidelity costs a woman her life. Her killer is fleeing, but the cops are closing in.

Lonesome Desert--Young Jessie (1954)

[dfwgator]

Supertramp - Crime of the Century

[jackibutterfly]

Stagger Lee

[Fiji Hill]

Champion Jack Dupree sings about reefers, cocaine and the needle. Fats Domino fans may recognize the melody.

Junker Blues--Champion Jack Dupree (1941)

[Fiji Hill]

Reefer Head Woman--Jazz Gillum & His Jazz Boys (1938)

[jackibutterfly]

Green, Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones)

[Two Kids' Dad]

https://youtu.be/tVxevIgVmG8

[Fiji Hill]

This is a curious song. The prisoner is in a California prison for a crime committed in Nevada. The prison is near a railroad track over which trains travel "on down to San Antone"--but the only "San Antone" anywhere near the prison is San Antonio Valley, Calif., a small community near Altamont Pass that has never had rail service. Nonetheless, the song was a hit, and the singer went on to have a long string of hits.

Folsom Prison Blues--Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two (1956)

[P-Marlowe]

Mack the Knife.

[Albion Wilde]

Lefty Frizzell’s version

I knew it was an old song when the Band covered it, but never knew who wrote it, so thanks to your post, I looked it up on Wikipedia. It sounded like an old-time American folk song from the 1800s—what a surprise to see it was written in 1959. Thanks!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

https://youtu.be/NYz8xs163YU

Sade - Is it a Crime

[Songcraft]

Dealing with treasonous crimes...


(Get on board that crime-fighting, patriotic, freedom train!)

"The Bullet Train"

"People Get Ready" - (song link)

"Smokestack Lightning" - (song link)

"Orange Blossom Special" - (song link)

"Wabash Cannonball" - (song link)

"This Train Is Bound For Glory" - (song link)

[Jamestown1630]

Does ‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer’ count?

(I’m in a Christmas-y mood...)

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Judas Priest-Breaking the Law

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Reposted your post, didn’t see you had it covered.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Blackjack County chain.

I was sittin’ beside the road in blackjack county
Not knowing that the sheriff paid a bounty
For men like me who didn’t have a penny to their names
So he locked my leg to thirty five pounds of blackjack county chain
And all we had to eat was bread and water
And each day we had to build that road a mile and a quarter
And black snake whip would cut our backs when some poor fool complained
But we couldn’t fight back wearin’ thirty five pounds of blackjack county chain

And then one night while the sheriff was a sleepin’
We all gathered round him slowly creepin’
And heaven help me to forget that night in the cold cold rain
When we beat him death with thirty five pounds of blackjack county chain

[Colorado Doug]

Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l0xpkk0yaQ

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison. (1968)

What an album of songs!