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re: What are your fave storysongs?
Posted on 12/25/23 at 10:18 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 12/25/23 at 10:18 pm to fr33manator
Meat Loaf... Paradise by the dashboard light is one of them. Some of the others were mentioned above.
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Posted on 12/26/23 at 5:57 am to auggie
quote:
Seneca Creek
Cranes of Potter
Posted on 12/26/23 at 11:13 am to STigers
Posted on 12/26/23 at 2:41 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 12/27/23 at 1:17 pm to fr33manator
Townes Van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty
Living on the road my friend
Was gonna keep you free and clean
And now you wear your skin like iron
And your breath as hard as kerosene
Weren't your mama's only boy
But her favorite one it seems
She began to cry when you said goodbye
And sank into your dreams
Pancho was a bandit boy
His horse was fast as polished steel
He wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
Pancho met his match you know
On the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dying words
Ah but that's the way it goes
All the Federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose
Lefty, he can't sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down south
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
The day they laid poor Pancho low
Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go
There ain't nobody knows
All the Federales say
They could have had him any day
We only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose
The poets tell how Pancho fell
And Lefty's living in cheap hotels
The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold
And so the story ends we're told
Pancho needs your prayers it's true
But save a few for Lefty too
He only did what he had to do
And now he's growing old
All the Federales say
We could have had him any day
We only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose
A few gray Federales say
We could have had him any day
We only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose
Living on the road my friend
Was gonna keep you free and clean
And now you wear your skin like iron
And your breath as hard as kerosene
Weren't your mama's only boy
But her favorite one it seems
She began to cry when you said goodbye
And sank into your dreams
Pancho was a bandit boy
His horse was fast as polished steel
He wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
Pancho met his match you know
On the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dying words
Ah but that's the way it goes
All the Federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose
Lefty, he can't sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down south
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
The day they laid poor Pancho low
Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go
There ain't nobody knows
All the Federales say
They could have had him any day
We only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose
The poets tell how Pancho fell
And Lefty's living in cheap hotels
The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold
And so the story ends we're told
Pancho needs your prayers it's true
But save a few for Lefty too
He only did what he had to do
And now he's growing old
All the Federales say
We could have had him any day
We only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose
A few gray Federales say
We could have had him any day
We only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose
Posted on 12/27/23 at 1:30 pm to fr33manator
John Prine - Sam Stone
Sam Stone came home
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas
And the time that he served
Had shattered all his nerves
And left a little shrapnel in his knees
But the morphine eased the pain
And the grass grew round his brain
And gave him all the confidence he lacked
With a purple heart and a monkey on his back
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears
Don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios, mmhmm
Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears
Don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios, mmhmm
Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
There was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the GI bill
For a flag-draped casket on a local hero's hill
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears
Don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios, mmhmm
Sam Stone came home
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas
And the time that he served
Had shattered all his nerves
And left a little shrapnel in his knees
But the morphine eased the pain
And the grass grew round his brain
And gave him all the confidence he lacked
With a purple heart and a monkey on his back
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears
Don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios, mmhmm
Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears
Don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios, mmhmm
Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
There was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the GI bill
For a flag-draped casket on a local hero's hill
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears
Don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios, mmhmm
Posted on 12/27/23 at 1:52 pm to UPT
Flanagan's Ball - Dropkick Murphys
Posted on 12/27/23 at 5:36 pm to fr33manator
Lost Keys, Blame Hoffman/Rosetta Stoned
Posted on 12/27/23 at 7:15 pm to fr33manator
Great topic!
Highwayman -The Highwaymen
Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Who killed Davey Moore - Boombox (another boxing storysong)
The night they drove old dixie down- The Band
Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
The Bolton Stretch- Yonder
Highwayman -The Highwaymen
Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Who killed Davey Moore - Boombox (another boxing storysong)
The night they drove old dixie down- The Band
Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
The Bolton Stretch- Yonder
Posted on 12/27/23 at 8:19 pm to One Arm Steve
Detroit Rock City
Posted on 12/27/23 at 10:10 pm to fr33manator
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Posted on 12/27/23 at 10:32 pm to Choupique19
Old rivers
El Paso
El Paso
This post was edited on 12/27/23 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 12/27/23 at 10:51 pm to fr33manator
Paul Revere - Beastie Boys
Posted on 12/28/23 at 12:26 am to BunkieWrench
Posted on 12/28/23 at 8:24 am to fr33manator
Nebraska- Bruce Springsteen
Big Iron- Marty Robbins
Big Iron- Marty Robbins
Posted on 12/28/23 at 9:16 am to FightinTigersDammit
Slick Rick Children's Story
Posted on 12/30/23 at 7:38 pm to TommyCheeseballs
Always liked this one (as opposed to a traditional ballad).
"America's Favorite Pastime" Todd Snider
"America's Favorite Pastime" Todd Snider
Posted on 1/1/24 at 10:23 pm to awestruck
Whiskey Myers "Broken Window Serenade"
Jim Reeves "The Blizzard"
Jim Reeves "The Blizzard"
Posted on 1/2/24 at 9:39 am to Choupique19
quote:
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
I'll see this CDB and raise you "The Legend of Wooley Swamp"....
Posted on 2/24/24 at 3:28 pm to UPT
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