Your favourite song with a proper story...

[PuppyMonkey]

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???

Did Sting do a version of "Hung My Head"? Was the original in a really strange time signature?

'Train In The Distance' is another story song which is well worth a listen for Paul Simon fans.

Loads of great songs here -I've just made a new Spotify list from them

I shall add
Sylvias Mother
Living next door to Alice
Twenty-four hours from Tulsa

Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner by
Warren Zevon.

And The Beatles , She's Leaving Home and Elenor Rigby.

Oh, so many, DP wants to play and keeps reeling them off...

Fuel Up - Stornoway
Up the Junction - Squeeze
Don't you want me - The Human League
Almost any song by Fleet Foxes

Jim Reeves - The Blizzard and Wreck of the number nine

Fast car - Tracy Chapman.
Is there life out there - Reba McEntire.

Quite a lot of C&W songs have been mentioned haven't they?

Whiskey In The Jar

Also oldies such as Barbara Allen and Molly Malone.

Lorrie Morgan - Something in Red

I love nearly all of these (don't know some of the more recent ones ).

Just had to look up a song I used like. It's called Jessie and is about a woman who always calls a man just when he's got over her. There's a cat called Moses in it too. I'd completely forgotten about it until I read this thread.

That's 'Jessie' by Joshua Kaddison, Jingle.

Not really a story song, but well worth a mention as it really is a beautiful song

This one's a bit , but I was young and naive at the time!

Through The Barricades.

What a brilliant thread - am hastening to spotify with this little lot.

GMajor/Jessie - I heard on the radio that that song was written about Sarah Jessica Parker (not wanting to spoil it or anything :))

Simple Twist of Fate by Bob Dylan - actually most of the Blood on the Tracks album, Tangled Up in Blue is a great story, as is Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. He's good at that folk-style ballady thing.

And of course was based on a true case.

Has anyone mentioned Tom Waits? is about an old man calling up his old girlfriend after 40 years, still in love with her. has a good story too.

There's a band called Tunng who have a brilliant song called "Jenny Again" which is narrated by the victim of a killing, telling the story of the killer escaping with the dead man's girlfriend and starting a new life elsewhere.

Did someone mention Caledonia?

god I know I'm going to kill this thread, but there are two songs with quite similar stories,

and

where a middle aged sleazebag gets tricked by the gorgeous young backpackers he is trying to seduce.

Thanks for all the links on this thread - I'm going to have a busy night enjoying new music whilst avoiding writing Christmas cards.

I'd just like to add two more:

Dignity by Deacon Blue

Somewhere down the Crazy River by Robbie Robertson (although I really have no idea what the story is - it's an amazing tune) I have yet to meet anyone who has heard of RR, except for the boy who introduced me to him whilst I played hookey from A Level maths and was educated (ahem) in his bedroom on a Wednesday afternoon.

love somewhere down the crazy river

When I was a kid, (and still now) "Coward of the County" has me almost bawling...

"The Gift" Velvet Underground

What about Mike and the Mechanics, Living Years?

GOD I LOVE Simple Twist of fate.

I have been listening to it since I was 18 and am still not sick of it.

On a different note, "When the Sun Goes down" Arctic Monkeys (scummy man/prostitute story).

David Bowie: Life on Mars.

missmiss that is the song that I thought of first, I Hung My Head - it is brilliant, but lots of Johnny Cash songs are great stories Give My love to Rose sprung to mind too.

Bob Dylan's Hurricane is good.