Favorite Crime Songs,songs with a crime in it.Tell us your favorites.Freeper Canteen 7~10~15

Free Republic ^ | July 10, 2015 | michael.sf

[Michael.SF.]

~Favorite Crime Song's~





Folsom Prison Blues • Original • Johnny Cash • 1955

*Video*

Robert Earl Keen Whenever Kindness Fails

*Video*

[Publius]

The Moody Blues: "Legend of a Mind"

[P-Marlowe]

I can’t believe it took 100 posts to get to that song. But then I suspect only us old guys remember it.

[Kathy in Alaska]

United States Marine Corps Band ~ National Anthem

[Fraxinus]

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

Tom Dooley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtSzcKZGzDs

[Michael.SF.]

Any song about a women’s prison fits! Good choice. So many versions to choose from

[Publius]

Shel Silverstein: "The Great Smoke-Off"

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats

Bobby Darren - Mack the Knife

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust

Afroman - Because I Got High

The Beatles - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

Glenn Frey - Smuggler’s Blues

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer and Burning Down The House

Snow - Informer

Sade - Smooth Operator (and maybe Sweetest Taboo)

Guns ‘n’ Roses - Used To Love Her

Nirvana - Polly

Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch - Death Valley ‘69

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Steely Dan - Do It Again

[Kartographer]

Glen Fray - Smuggler’s Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7m-xiGT4X4

BOB SEGER - SHAKEDOWN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3MTFJz50qc

[Fiji Hill]

This song chronicles one of the most heinous crimes in the history of Los Angeles--the kidnap and murder of Marian Parker, the daughter of a banker, in December, 1927. When the perpetrator was brought to justice, the singer, Vernon Dalhart, released a sequel, "The Hanging of the Fox" (1928).

The Murder of Marian Parker--Al Craver (aka Vernon Dalhart) (1928)

[aomagrat]

“Trouble in the City” by J.J. Cale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiDWLdzO33Y

[Publius]

The Beatles: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"

[vetvetdoug]

Escape of Old John Webb

Everglades

Sloop John B

This Mornin' This Evenin' So Soon

Tom Dooley

Long Black Veil

Bad Man's Blunder

Hangman

Songs by the Kingston Trio

[Michael.SF.]

When I have a break I will tell you the time Joe called me on my cell phone! First saw him in Long Beach in ‘79 or ‘80

[Dartman]

Murder on Music Row.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1Vrur_ewM

I still can't listen to "new" country.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sammy Hagar ~ I Can’t Drive 55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k

[Fiji Hill]

Roll, Hot Rod, Roll!--Oscar McLollie & the Honey Jumpers (1955)

[Dartman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1Vrur_ewM

[uglybiker]

Don Henley MUST DIE!!

[Michael.SF.]

If you like Steve Miller, check out his Harmonica player:

Hangin Tree - Norton Buffalo

May he (NB) RIP

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I remember the artists, Jay and the Americans and some of the lyrics but do not remember the name of the song:

In a little café just South of the border;
She was sitting there giving me looks that made my mouth water.....

Come a little bit closer,
You’re so big and so strong
and the night is so long.....

*then later on in the song:*

So I dropped my drink from my hand
And to the window I ran.
And as I rode away
I could hear her say to José,
Come a little bit closer
You’re so big and so strong
and the night is so long.

*Any help from the Peanut Gallery would be greatly appreciated! ;-)*