Favorite "Story Songs"Tell us your Favorite "Songs That Tell a Story".Freeper Canteen 9~7~12`

[Humbug]

Willie Nelson (with Merle Haggard) - Pancho and Lefty
George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
Charlie Daniels - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Charlie Pride - Kaw-Liga
The Highwaymen - The Highwayman
Roy Clark - I Never Picked Cotton
Clay Walker - Chain of Love
Daryle Singletary - I Let Her Lie
Walter Brennan - Old Rivers

Honorable mention (ahem)....
Leonard Nimoy - Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

[fatima]

Thanks HiTech RedNeck,I’ll give a listen later when I have some time ((((Hugs)))

[Emperor Palpatine]

“Gimme Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Good Bye, Blue Skies” by Pink Floyd, and “Singring and the Glass Guitar” by Todd Rundgren and Utopia.

[NurdlyPeon]

Your cash ain’t nuthin’ but trash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh8W8CsfK38

[fatima]

Thanks Lloyd ((((Hugs)))

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ah, all the commercial stuff here has got it out classed.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

David Allan Coe...

The Ride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnUS8lndlzg

[redangus]

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Fancy - Rheba’s version
Sink the Bismarck - unknown

[republicanbred]

Love this song!!! A Pirate Looks at Forty.

He has SO many good ones!

[Michael.SF.]

love story songs. This one is my current favorite:

Lyrics sample:

said Red Molly to James that's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like
Said James to Red Molly, well my hat's off to you
It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
And I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme
And he pulled her on behind
And down to Box Hill they did ride

Richard Thompson – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

[SMGFan]

Mack the Knife-Bobby Darin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEllHMWkXEU

Bobby Darin - Artificial flowers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1U-vcuw38I

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Nothin’ says ‘redneck” like David Allan Coe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnUS8lndlzg

[Emperor Palpatine]

You really should hear the one with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore at the piano.

[aomagrat]

“Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)” by Dwight Yoakum

[Publius]

Nope. Never heard it in English.

[fatima]

I wish I could.I can’t find the audio with either singer.Must be copyrights.Maybe Kathy has it.Thanks Hot Tabasco ((((Hugs))))

[Publius]

Franz Schubert: "Alinde"

This one always chokes me up.

[pops88]

“Leaving on a jet plane - Chantal Kreviazuk”

I much prefer this version, which has long since been erased from the internet:

Naked On A Jet Plane
(Lyrics to the tune of “Leaving On A Jet Plane”)

All their clothes are off, they’re ready to go.
The stewardess walks in through the door.
They say they’ve spilled their coffee, let it dry.

Well, I booked my ticket on Southwest.
But then I saw the pilot’s chest.
They’ve stripped down to their skivies when they fly.

So fly me and strip for me
It’s a nightmare trip for me.
Close the cockpit door before you go.

Cause their naked on a jet plane.
Don’t know when I will fly again.
Don’t let your undies show.

Southwest fired them for their stupid prank.
I wondered just how much they drank.
Just one more beer they wouldn’t wear a thing.

First the pilot’s drunk and then he’s nude.
And then they feed us crappy food.
In first class you can see their ding-a-ling.

So, fly me and strip for me.
It’s a nightmare trip for me.
Close the cockpit door before you go.

Cause their naked on a jet plane.
I don’t know when I will fly again.

Naked on a jet plane.
I don’t know when I will fly again.

Naked on a jet plane.
I don’t know when I will fly again.

Don’t let your undies show.

[Fiji Hill]

Cats In The Cradle-Harry Chapin

That's a nice cat song. Here are a couple more:

Sitting on a Backyard Fence--Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, 1933

The Pussy Cat Song--Perry Como, 1948

[rickomatic]

Randall Knife by Guy Clark

My father had a Randall knife
My mother gave it to him
When he went off to WWII
To save us all from ruin
If you've ever held a Randall knife
Then you know my father well
If a better blade was ever made
It was probably forged in hell

My father was a good man
A lawyer by his trade
And only once did I ever see
Him misuse the blade
It almost cut his thumb off
When he took it for a tool
The knife was made for darker things
And you could not bend the rules

He let me take it camping once
On a Boy Scout jamboree
And I broke a half an inch off
Trying to stick it in a tree
I hid it from him for a while
But the knife and he were one
He put it in his bottom drawer
Without a hard word one

There it slept and there it stayed
For twenty some odd years
Sort of like Excalibur
Except waiting for a tear

My father died when I was forty
And I couldn't find a way to cry
Not because I didn't love him
Not because he didn't try
I'd cried for every lesser thing
Whiskey, pain and beauty
But he deserved a better tear
And I was not quite ready

So we took his ashes out to sea
And poured `em off the stern
And threw the roses in the wake
Of everything we'd learned
When we got back to the house
They asked me what I wanted
Not the lawbooks not the watch
I need the things he's haunted

My hand burned for the Randall knife
There in the bottom drawer
And I found a tear for my father's life
And all that it stood for