Songs that tell a story

[SocksinBoots]

Lola

Coward of the County

Any others you can thinK of?

[LegArmpits]

Electro Shock Blues (the whole cd) by Eels.
Pretty much anything by Ben Folds.

[BobPatSamandIgglePiggle]

Down in the tube station at midnight

Babe - take that

The one where the woman sept with a hitch hiker to get pregnant

Loads of Beatles songs - most of the ones written by paul McCartney about people

I love story songs!

[Shosha1]

In fact just about anything by Sugarland

[GoodnessKnows]

Babooshka

[Jux]

Ferguson! I love Dory Previn! Have her first two albums (got them at the time on vinyl - oh boy I am so old!). Refused to have any recording with 'the vile Andre' in my house for years!

[sidneypie]

Little Musgrave - Planxty

Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it - beautiful song, sad story.

[captaincavewoman]

Chatelaine, was it sk8er boi by Avril Lavigne?

[Chatelaine123]

YES
YES
YES!!!!! Cartwheels!!

With your info I looked it up on YouTube (never seen the video)

Thank you so much captincavewoman.

It has haunted me for years. Just loved the sentiment of it.

Bless you.

[GoodnessKnows]

Luka

[GoodnessKnows]

Luka

[ohmymimi]

'At Seventeen' Janis Ian. Not sure if it qualifies, but I love it.

[TinseltownInTheRain]

'Labelled with Love' - Squeeze

[spots]

'Leader of the Pack' - Shangri-Las
'The Boxer' - Simon and Garfunkel

[ThingWithFeathers]

Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris.

[Serioussteve]

Darren Hayes portrays aspects of his life very often in his songs.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tHXZ_peJe9c - is about his mother being beaten by her husband and her fighting to get him and his siblings.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PtNNVqDOS98 - is after he left his wife when he realised he was gay.

And m.youtube.com/watch?v=1bXPuyAESG0

[Blushingm]

Fast Car - Tracey Chapman

I wasn't expecting that - James Lawson

Downeaster Alexa - Billy Joel

[tribpot]

- this version is by Silvio Rodriguez as Jara was murdered by the Pinochet regime in 1973.

I was going to say Skater Boy (I couldn't be arsed to work out how to spell it in text speak) as well.

[Lambbone]

Fancy and Ode to Billy Joe by Bobby Gentry.

Under Your Thumb by Godley and Cream

That song that goes " at the age of 37 she realised she'd never to to Paris in a sports car....."

That other one that goes " Georgina Bailey had come of age, her mother sent her off to France...."

Or let's get silly. Telephone Man (I rented my apartment on a Monday at one.....). That's my party piece when I've had a snifter or two.

[ThePortlyPinUp]

Running Bear. Makes me cry every time.

[Branleuse]

Roger waters - pros and cons of hitchhiking - the whole album

[thefutureofpolitics]

Belle and Sebastian 'The State I Am In'

The Smiths 'Is It Really So Strange?'


Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 'The Curse of Millhaven'


Kate Bush 'Army Dreamers'


David Bowie 'Space Oddity'


Bob Dylan 'Hurricane'


The Beautiful South 'Woman in the Wall'

[balletgirlmum]

Ds was singing along to I Wasn't Expecting That this morning on the way to school & realised for the first time the song told a story.

[Greenteandchives]

I lost my Heart on a 747. Tom Paxton. Brilliant. Have a Google.

[stitchglitched]

Cats in the Cradle- think it's by Cat Stevens

[ZaZathecat]

Was going to say Ode to Billy Joe but got beaten to it.

Actually isn't all Country music meant to tell a story?