The best popular songs that tell a narrative story.
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A Boy Named Sue -- Johnny Cash
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Ode to Billie Joe -- Bobbie Gentry
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The Alice's Restaurant Massacree -- Arlo Guthrie
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The Phantom Windbreaker -- Red Bovine
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- Gordon Lightfoot
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Long Black Veil -- Joan Baez
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Frankie and Johnny -- Traditional
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Re-hab -- Stew
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Lost My Job Again -- Pigeon John
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Red Satin Dress -- Cherryholmes
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Merry Christmas from the Family & Happy Holidays Y'all -- Robert Earl Keen
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Trapped in the Drive-Thru -- "Weird Al" Yankovic
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Saginaw, Michigian -- Lefty Frizzell
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Mexico -- Beck
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Your Lyin' Eyes -- The Eagles
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Go Home -- Stevie Wonder
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For Free -- Joni Mitchell
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Taxi- Harry Chapin
It was raining hard in 'Frisco,
I needed one more fare to make my night.
A lady up ahead waved to flag me down,
She got in at the light.
Oh, where you going to, my lady blue,
It's a shame you ruined your gown in the rain.
She just looked out the window, and said
"Sixteen Parkside Lane".
Something about her was familiar
I could swear I'd seen her face before,
But she said, "I'm sure you're mistaken"
And she didn't say anything more.
It took a while, but she looked in the mirror,
And...
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Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash
Made a good run but I run too slow
They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico