Songs that tell a story

[SocksinBoots]

Lola

Coward of the County

Any others you can thinK of?

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

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!

In fact just about anything by Sugarland

Babooshka

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!

Little Musgrave - Planxty

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

Chatelaine, was it sk8er boi by Avril Lavigne?

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.

Luka

Luka

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

'Labelled with Love' - Squeeze

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

Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris.

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

Fast Car - Tracey Chapman

I wasn't expecting that - James Lawson

Downeaster Alexa - Billy Joel

- 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.

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.

Running Bear. Makes me cry every time.

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

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'

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.

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

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

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

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