Storytelling songs that make to stand back and say "Wow!"

[NMNeil]

One of the most popular songs on the radio here at the moment is a C&W song "Wait in the truck"
42 million views in 4 months and a very mixed reaction.
Opinions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsMB0i5YTOc

[gmaz]

Based on a true story, apparently. The family of a woman in the US had been killed in a shooting, but she was so in denial that she was anxious to get back home to make dinner.

[anonymous-user]

Telegraph Road by Dire Straits, tells a story beautifully, great music too Knopfler is such an underrated musician

[NMNeil]

gmaz said:

Based on a true story, apparently. The family of a woman in the US had been killed in a shooting, but she was so in denial that she was anxious to get back home to make dinner.

I had no idea, thanks.

[gmasterfunk]

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot

https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI

[996Type]

Copperhead Road from Steve Earle is a good shout….

[Rollin]

Tecumseh Valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWoVnvl9aYc

[Wacky Racer]

I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on the windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said "you are a lady"
"Perhaps" she said. "I may be"

We moved in to a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The Railway Arms we're missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up

I got a job with Stanley
He said I'd come in handy
And started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her

This morning at four fifty
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another

And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it's my assumption
I'm really up the junction

[mac96]

gmasterfunk said:

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot

https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI

Exactly what I thought as soon as I saw the thread title.

[Turn7]

Up the junction is such a sad song, always loved the harsh reality of it.

One song that hits hard for me is by The Levellers,The Battle of the Beanfield….

[w1bbles]

The Queen and the Soldier
Suzanne Vega
https://youtu.be/FyZI-VaVg2g

[NMNeil]

w1bbles said:

The Queen and the Soldier
Suzanne Vega
https://youtu.be/FyZI-VaVg2g

When you mentioned Suzanne Vega I thought of Luka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZt7J0iaUD0

[cherryowen]

996Type said:

Copperhead Road from Steve Earle is a good shout….

Good call

[egor110]

Eagles - new york minute is pretty good .

[paulguitar]

Hurricane by Bob Dylan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voH11xV4AKI

[craigjm]

egor110 said:

Eagles - new york minute is pretty good .

Not The Eagles. Don Henley solo

[Getragdogleg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyIE1z37g4Q

5:15am, Mark Knopfler. Two stories in parallel, one of a mining community and its hardships and the other a gangster meets his end.

[paulguitar]

pablo said:

Knopfler is such an underrated musician

Do you think so? I'd say he's pretty widely revered.

[Voldemort]

1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson

[Some Gump]

All such sad stories.
Here's a fun one

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bA2vTM5AWL4