What are your favorite story songs?

Subject: RE: What are your favorite story songs?
From: oldhippie
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 08:48 AM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned my favorites: California Joe by Jim Ringer, and its sequel, California Faith by Debby McClatchy.
(I place them right up there with Taxi/Sequel)

I'd also recommend.....

Anna & Tim - Susan Urban
Here Lies Lenora Jennings - Ron Hynes
A Better Place To Be - Harry Chapin

Subject: RE: What are your favorite story songs?
From: GUEST,Hilary
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 04:41 PM

"King Orfeo," "Barbara Allen," "Thomas the Rhymer," "Geordie," "The Maid on the Shore," "The Death of Queen Jane," "Riddles Wisely Expounded," "Queen Eleanor's Confession," "Hind Horn," "The Silkie," and, my all-time favorite, "The Outlandish Knight."

Subject: RE: What are your favorite story songs?
From: GUEST,Robo
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 05:15 PM

John Riley, for one. Lady Came from Baltimore . . .

Subject: RE: What are your favorite story songs?
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 01:25 PM

Some of my favorites:

Tom Joad
Pretty Boy Floyd
Gilgarry Mountain
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Broomfield Hill (version by Clam Chowder)
The Queen of Air and Darkness (also by Clam Chowder)
I'm Goin' Back To Where I Come From (Glenn Yarbrough version)
Two Magicians (Steeleye Span version)

Of course, there are lots of others, but these immediately came to mind.

Jay

Subject: RE: What are your favorite story songs?
From: GUEST,McoyHatfeud
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 03:41 PM

"Legend of the Pale-Eyed Companion" -Lawrence Hammond

Subject: RE: What are your favorite story songs?
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 10 Mar 11 - 02:45 PM

Great thread.

I've always loved the story in Pretty Peggy-O, especially the ironic kick in the end, where the spurned lover says he'll burn down all the cities of his fair lady for rejecting him. lol.

Some more:

Miners Song/Sourdough- by Bill Staines (underrated, haunting song)
Desolation Row- Dylan -a story in dream sequences
Whisky in The Jar
Barbara Allen (although I'm a singersongwriter lover first,
             the trad songs really excel at story telling)