Posted on 09/01/2016 4:55:26 PM PDT by fatima
It’s a great song....glad you enjoyed it.
Marty Robbins...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999RqGZatPs&list=PLoV_xyyO4aVhkd1g7eo0h5m-jJFcRepv7
Thanks Everyone for all your help.So many great songs.:)
William Tell was a good story - and the Lone Ranger had hundreds more to tell.....
Damn, girl!!!! Just when ya thing ya figured things out...
Haha!!!
Oh, golly! Just saw this - have been very busy with the P’s (care). What a great thread! I’m a huge fan of “narrative” tunes: The more they “draw a picture and pull one in”, the better. A heck of a lot of great ones have already been listed. But, here goes - hopefully I’ve not repeated too many already posted:
First and foremost, about half of everything Ken Hensley ever wrote, including many with Uriah Heep:
Salisbury - Heep
Paradise / The Spell - Heep
The Wizard - Heep
July Morning - Heep
Lady In Black - Heep
The Magician’s Birthday - Heep
Stealin’ - Heep
Firefly (Truly beautiful, and applies to me finding my wife, in some ways!) - Heep
Choices - Heep
The Return - Hensley
The Last Dance - Hensley
In For the Kill - Hensley with Blackfoot
Rollin’ The Rock - Heep - less Hensley
The Golden Palace - Heep, less Hensley, version from “Acoustically Driven” — wonderful!
Time To Live - Heep, written by Byron, Box, & Hensley
Rene Didn’t Do It - Russ Ballard
White Hot - Red Rider (Listen all the way through... Water.....!)
Troglodyte - Jimmy Castor Bunch
That Smell - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Fairies Wear Boots - Black Sabbath
Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath
Morning Dew - I happen to like the Blackfoot version
Telegram - Nazareth
Horse With No Name - America
Highway Song - Blackfoot
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Old Man - Neil Young
Al Stewart - Nostradamus (and many others)
The Song of Crazy Horse - J.D. Blackfoot
Heart - Magic Man
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
The Motorcycle Song - Arlo Guthrie
Several of Helestial Navigations’ tunes (really great - sort of storytelling with more or less musical backgrounds) including “Ice” (mesmerizing!)
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I’d better stop or I’ll be up all night!!!
Oops, that was supposed to be “Celestial Navigations”.
John Michael Montgomery’s, “The Little Girl.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JxrYAumI-I
I challenge anyone to listen to this song and not get at least a little bit teary-eyed.
Oh my Kathy - that was a different version than I was expecting - never heard that one before - I was literally rolling on the floor laughing - THANKS!!!
Thank you!
It’s the weekend again (sort of) - tho’ this is now an old thread, here are a few others I heard or remembered this week:
Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Blue Oyster Cult
Nosferatu - Blue Oyster Cult
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Rick Wakeman (more like an entire album musical “narrative”.)
Teacher - Jethro Tull
Snowblind - Styx (terrifying!)
Slark - Stackridge
Amanda - Amanda McBroom
The Wall (entire album) - Pink Floyd
And a truly GREAT anthem / story of a “party boy” becoming a MAN:
Dream On - Russ Ballard
Oh, when I was a kid
I still see what we did
We were always on the run
It would seem
That you had a dream
And you could be anyone
I remember one day
An old man passed my way
He looked at me and he said:
Boy don’t you cry
You reach for the sky
Boy you look straight ahead!
If you know what you want
And you know how to get it
Don’t let any man
Let you forget it
If you know what you need
You won’t regret it
Dream On
That’s what I say
You Dream on
Till love comes your way
You Dream On
And as time went by
As a man... and I would love
And I would hide
Love to me
Was so easy so free
With no concern and no burning inside
And then one of those nights
In the city lights
As the boys and me, we ran wild
She looked at me
And his words I could see
As plain as when I was a child
If you know what you want
And you know how to get it
Don’t let any man
Let you forget it
If you know what you need
You won’t regret it
Dream on
That’s what I say
You Dream On
Till love comes your way
You Dream On
Dream On
You better Dream On
You Dream On
So if you love and you lose
And you pay life’s dues
And at times life don’t work out
Don’t you cry Jack
And don’t you look back
You let these words ring out
If you know what you want
And you know how to get it
Don’t let any man
Let you forget it
If you know what you need
You won’t regret it
Dream On
That’s what I say
You Dream On
Till love comes your way
You Dream On
You better Dream On
You Dream On
You better Dream On
You Dream On
You better Dream On
You Dream On
You better Dream On
You Dream On
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