Your favourite song with a proper story...

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Heart "All I wanna do is make love to you" - where she shags a stranger just to get pregnant.

Or the incomparable Hazzard. Always had my suspicions about what he did with her down by that river.

Anyone else like songs like this???

Sorry - TWO

In Sinead O'Connors version of Ode to Billy Joe there is a baby crying when the lyric "throwing somethin off the Tallahatchie bridge" is sung.....

ooh most kate bush songs, like wedding list

I don't think any of you will know this one but there is a stunning one called A Walk In The Light Green (I Was Only 19) by a group called Redgum.
And on a similar topic (50 years' difference in setting) - Eric Bogle : And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
I'm going for the crying ones obv

Starry Starry Night by Don McLean. He sings about Vincent Van Gogh and it makes me cry every time I hear it.

Ha, I was going to mention Don McLean!

I also cry to starry night.

I like the song and album Aqua Lung by Jethro Tull and Pink Floyds the wall album.

The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan is a favourite of mine.

melezka YES.. that Spanish TRain album.. Nostradamus is a good track that takes me back to my druggie/hazy teenage years

I had a great CD called every song tells a story which has lots of the songs mentioned on it.

I love "The Queen and The Soldier" by Suzanne Vega, such an emotive song.

Luka Suzanne Vega

The Queen And The Soldier is an amazing song.

Luka makes me cry these days :(

'Black Diamond Bay' by Bob Dylan - lots of Bob Dylan infact :)

There is a great pair of songs by Nina Nastasia - 'Nobody Knew Her' and 'Bradley Haunts A Party'. The first details the death of a popular high school kid in a drunken RTA, the second (which appears on a much later album) is told by his unknown date as they endlessly relive the night of the crash. Or that's my interpretation anyway.

Ricki Lee Jones - Skeletons

Up The Junction - Squeeze

I am from Clapham Junction, but I did not get pg and run off with another man 2 years later though.

Also love "Telegraph Road" by Dire Straits

I'm old, aren't I?

has no-one mentioned the songs on Blue by Joni Mitchell?

Little Green is an amazing one. Always makes me cry.

The Tower by Chris De Burgh

Had me sobbing at aged 12, what a story!

Here's a festive one - I love Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.

Also love "All I Wanna do...", OP.

Can't believe I missed it - The Day Before You Came by Abba is a good yarn.....