What is your favorite song that actually tells a story?

[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.

[Inkie]

That was mine. Battle of New Orleans

[jy8z]

A surreal story.

Lost Highway Saloon- Johnny Bush

[stanne]

“El Paso” live is actually a very good Grateful Dead tune

[Scrambler Bob]

How about Thunder Road?

[Inkie]

In the Ghetto -Elvis

[atc23]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

[Alberta's Child]

"Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses" by Kathy Mattea ...

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I'm not sure if it's a totally "true" story, but Charlie was a real guy and a real truck driver getting ready for retirement who crossed paths with Kathy Mattea and her band at a truck stop when they were on tour.

[jjotto]

Thanks! I’m going to look it up.

[Fiji Hill]

Also, Honey by Bobby Goldsboro (tear-jerker)

I like the version of Honey by Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees. If it jerks tears, they will be tears of joy.

[Getready]

Supposed to be modern rock version of Oedipus Rex...

[meowmeow]

Reba McEntire... My Name is Fancy

[Beowulf9]

Well, they said she was a Cherokee but I know better, she was a gypsy, tramp and thief ;)

Lol.I like most of Cher’s songs.

[stanne]

“Me and Bobby Magee” by Janis Joplin

Yep. Kris Kristofferson writer on that. The Dead does a great version.

[mware]

Foggy ,foggy dew.

[combat_boots]

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Gordon Lightfoot

All together now…..

“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down…..

He’s alive, by Don Francisco

https://www.eamus.it/songs/hes-alive-dolly-parton.htm

You don’t mess around with Jim, by Jim Croce

You oughta know, by Alanis Morrisette

Grandma’s feather bed, by John Denver

Aerie, by John Denver

All she wants to do is dance, by Don Henley

In the Ghetto. Elvis

On silent wings, by Sting and Tina Turner

[Scrambler Bob]

OK - Big River, J Cash.

[madison10]

“The Greatest Man I Never Knew” I cry when it starts. It was my dad and I for the most part.

[kenmcg]

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

[stanne]

“Wichita Lineman” and “Galveston”

Glenn Campbell

So great

Jimmy Webb writer on that.

[Poser]

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A Clean Song