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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: Beowulf9

The Ballad of Jed Clampett by Flatt & Scruggs.


141 posted on 04/22/2022 4:26:30 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Maris Crane

Lol. I know it.

I loved the John Denver version

Also, his ‘Ballad of St. Anne’s Reel’


142 posted on 04/22/2022 4:26:56 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: Beowulf9
Ballad of the Green Berets
143 posted on 04/22/2022 4:27:06 PM PDT by fso301
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To: ought-six

A big yes to “Taxi”.


144 posted on 04/22/2022 4:27:39 PM PDT by bricklayer
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To: Beowulf9

Brian Setzer: Nosey Joe, This Od House, Hell Bent, Santa Rosa Rita, Blue Cafe
Reverend Horton Heat: Hardscrabble Woman, Galaxy 500, Spooky Boots, Ain’t Gonna Happen (It’s Gonna Happen)


145 posted on 04/22/2022 4:27:46 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Beowulf9

Another one - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.


146 posted on 04/22/2022 4:27:51 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Beowulf9

Dixie Chicken by Little Feat


147 posted on 04/22/2022 4:28:08 PM PDT by orlop9
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To: All

Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top


148 posted on 04/22/2022 4:28:48 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.)
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To: Beowulf9
-"Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple
-"Maybelline" by Chuck Berry
-"Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring

149 posted on 04/22/2022 4:28:50 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Beowulf9

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.


150 posted on 04/22/2022 4:28:50 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Beowulf9
Bohemian Rhapsody
151 posted on 04/22/2022 4:29:05 PM PDT by bella1 (DeSantis 2024)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Stagger Lee is back!

The Return of Stagger Lee--Don Revels (1960)

The uncredited background singers are the Primettes, who would soon have a string of hits after they changed their name to the Supremes.

152 posted on 04/22/2022 4:29:27 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Beowulf9

‘39 by Queen. Best SciFi song.


153 posted on 04/22/2022 4:29:35 PM PDT by stump56 (Freedom isn't free.)
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To: stinkerpot65

Gilligan’s Island “Ballad of the SS Minnow”


154 posted on 04/22/2022 4:30:48 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: simpson96

‘El Paso’ always makes me think of Dylan’s ‘Romance in Durango’.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ZxwyBV2IM


155 posted on 04/22/2022 4:30:48 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Beowulf9
"Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses
156 posted on 04/22/2022 4:31:42 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: higgmeister

I on occasion still go and listen to this song.


157 posted on 04/22/2022 4:32:10 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Country Bumpkin, by Cal Smith


158 posted on 04/22/2022 4:32:12 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Alberta's Child

Yup....great line, has kept philosophers, theologists, atheists, Bible book writers, people facing death, busy since time and thinking has begun....
Gotta’ be one of the most thought provoking lines in pop music ever....

....except for wondering who put the pomp in the pomp sh’pomp sh’bomp, and who put the ram in the ram a lama ding dong (sarc)


159 posted on 04/22/2022 4:33:20 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Beowulf9
-"Sky Pilot" by the Animals
-"House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals

160 posted on 04/22/2022 4:33:35 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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