What is your favorite "story" song?

[kaseyC]

I am sitting here listening to a new CD set I bought from TimeLife called "American Pie - Great Tales and Sagas in Song". It has all of those neat songs that tell a story like "American Pie". What are your favorites?
Mine are:
1. Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins
2. Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers
3. The Streak - Ray Stevens
4. One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)
5. American Pie

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

"It was rainin' hard in Frisco, I needed one more fare to make my night..."

 

[bsnyder]

Good one, BR.

I also like Cat's In The Cradle.

 

[NHAnn]

LOL Briar Rose...I read the OP and the first thing that popped into mind was "Taxi" ! GMTA

A lady up ahead waved to flag me down.....
she got in at the light.......

 

[NHAnn]

Oh, and I love Dan Fogelberg's "Auld Lang Syne" too...

 

[browneyes]

Vincent
American Pie
Welcome to Pooh's Corner (Loggins)
Beverly Hillbilly's theme song
Gilligan Island's theme song
Nighshift


That Coward of the County song makes me have nightmares if I hear it. I don't know why though.

 

[snoopy]

Oh, I love Taxi! That song always makes me cry.

I also like Dan Fogleberg's "Auld Lang Syne"

 

[snoopy]

Shannon - LOL on the themesongs!

I love the Beverly Hillibillies themesong. That truly is the best themesong, EVER.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

"Oh where you going to, my lady blue, it's a shame you ruined your gown in the rain..."

I love Auld Lang Syne, American Pie, Cat's in the Cradle ...

 

[kaseyC]

I also need to add
Wildfire
Billy Don't be A Hero
Seasons in the Sun
The Living Years

 

[Towncrier]

Kentucky Rain by Elvis.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

"she just looked out the window, she said '16 Parkside Lane'..."

I loved Wildfire!

anyone else remember "30,000 Pounds of Bananas"? it was one of Harry's best.

 

[Silky]

[spoken]
Is she really going out with him?
Well, there she is. Let's ask her.
Betty, is that Jimmy's ring you're wearing?
Mm-hmm
Gee, it must be great riding with him
Is he picking you up after school today?
Uh-uh
By the way, where'd you meet him?

I met him at the candy store
He turned around and smiled at me
You get the picture? (yes, we see)
That's when I fell for (the leader of the pack)

My folks were always putting him down (down, down)
They said he came from the wrong side of town
(whatcha mean when ya say that he came from the wrong side of town?)
They told me he was bad
But I knew he was sad
That's why I fell for (the leader of the pack)

One day my dad said, "Find someone new"
I had to tell my Jimmy we're through
(whatcha mean when ya say that ya better go find somebody new?)
He stood there and asked me why
But all I could do was cry
I'm sorry I hurt you (the leader of the pack)

[spoken]
He sort of smiled and kissed me goodbye
The tears were beginning to show
As he drove away on that rainy night
I begged him to go slow
But whether he heard, I'll never know

Look out! Look out! Look out! Look out!

I felt so helpless, what could I do?
Remembering all the things we'd been through
In school they all stop and stare
I can't hide the tears, but I don't care
I'll never forget him (the leader of the pack)

The leader of the pack - now he's gone
The leader of the pack - now he's gone
The leader of the pack - now he's gone
The leader of the pack - now he's gone
[fade]

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

you do like the tough boys and bad girls, don't you, silky?

 

[Silky]

I took my troubles down to Madame Rue
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine

I told her that I was a flop with chics
I've been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign
She said "What you need is Love Potion Number Nine"

She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink
She said "I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink"
It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine

I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

silky old pal, your age is showing...

 

[Kitty 34]

One Tin Soldier for sure!!


Thanks Silky for a trip down memory lane!! Loved Leader of the Pack!!

 

[dcgrumpy]

Wildfire
Ode to Billy Joe
Billy Don't Be a Hero(saw it performed live at the Castle in MK when I was 9, that was my favorite part of the trip)
Chuck E.'s in Love (not sure if it's really a story)

 

[becka]

I like lots of the "story" songs but lately I have really been enjoying my Cher greatest hits CD so I will have to go with Dark Lady.

The fortune queen of New Orleans,
Was brushing her cat in her black limousine
On the backseat were scratches from
The marks of men her fortune she had won
Couldn't see through the tinted glass,
She said "Home James" and he hit the gas
I Followed her to some darkened room,
She took my money, she said "I'll be with you soon"

Dark Lady laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one
Danced to her gypsy music till her brew was done
Dark Lady played back magic till the clock struck on the twelve
She told me more about me than I knew myself

She dealt two cards, a queen and a three
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me
Then she turned up a two-eyed jack,
My eyes saw red but the card still stayed black
She said the man you love is secretly true
To someone else who is very close to you
My advice is that you leave this place,
Never come back and forget you ever saw my face

Dark Lady laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one
Danced to her gypsy music till her brew was done
Dark Lady played back magic till the clock struck on the twelve
She told me more about me than I knew myself

So I ran home and crawled in my bed,
I couldn't sleep because of all the things she said
Then I remembered her strange perfume,
And how I smelled it was in my own room!
So I sneaked back and caught her with my man,
Laughing and kissing till they saw the gun in my hand
The next thing I knew they were dead on the floor,
Dark Lady would never turn a card up anymore

Dark Lady laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one
Danced to her gypsy music till her brew was done
Dark Lady played back magic till the clock struck on the twelve
She told me more about me than I knew myself

 

[JohnTBap]

MacArthur Park




Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

[break]

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

[break]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!