I want to get into anywhere just like
your favorite book these songs take you
on a trip in someone else’s shoes
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten songs that tell a story for this
list we’re looking at songs that
lyrically tell a story from birth to
verse songs with abstract concepts that
are open to interpretation like Led
Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven and
Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody won’t be
featured on this list
the same goes for theme songs so our
apologies to the Fresh Prince of bel-air
I got in one little fight and my mom got
scared and said you’re moving with your
auntie and uncle in bel-air well my
daddy left home when I was three and he
didn’t leave much come on me just this
old good talk to pretend a boy named Sue
Johnny Cash I don’t blame him cause he’s
running here but the meanest thing that
he ever did it was before he left he
went named me soon it’s one thing to
hate your old man for abandoning you but
to name a boy Sue before hitting the
road can you imagine what the years of
embarrassment would do to your
self-esteem an old guitar and a bottle
of booze are only going to go so far he
was big and fast and gray and old I
looked at him and my blood ran cold I
said my name is a bitter and tough suit
vows to find the author of his misery
and kill that poker playing snake dead
when Sue finally encounters his father
all hell breaks loose but I’m the son of
a bitch that named you even though
revenge can be pretty satisfying the man
in blacks great storytelling and barely
controlled laughter makes the quest for
vengeance bittersweet and if I ever have
a son I think I’m gonna name him bill or
George any damn thing but soon
and he was talking for a new it and as
he grew he’d say I’m gonna be like you
dad you know I’m gonna be number nine
cats in the cradle harry chapin cat’s in
the cradle and the silver spoon little
Barbie with the man of the bone don’t be
fooled by the whimsical tune there’s no
happy ending here cat’s in the cradle is
a cautionary tale of what happens when a
distant father figure is too busy to
spend time with his son he shook his
head and he said with a smile what I’d
really like that is to borrow the car
keys
see you later can I have them
the dynamic changes when the son gets
older and is too preoccupied with his
own life to catch up with his old man
father learns too late that his son made
good on his promise to be just like him
you see my new jobs a hassle and the
kids of the flu but it’s your nice
talking to you dad
it’s been sure nice talking to you it
just goes to show that even if dad
sticks around and doesn’t give his sons
a girl’s name the relationship will fail
if there’s no emotional investment when
you come at home son I don’t know when
we’ll get together there
you know we’ll have a good
number eight the general dispatch I was
decorating with the horrible and lack of
Tim to all the story seats home inspired
by Jimi Hendrix’s castles made of sand
this anti-war song is about a seasoned
general who has an epiphany of the
futility of war and encourages his men
to abandon the fight
even though it’s set in the American
Civil War the songs themes of the value
and cost of life especially lives that
are too young to have fully lived
resonates today
the tracks lyrical point of view from
the side of the general rather than his
troops makes the message even weightier
this song is a great listen to for not
only its ideas but also for that opening
hook and funky rhythm come on Josie
not sure there’s a point to start on I’m
going attend it again hmm number seven
Carolina drama the rack contours and not
just about any other tail something’s
gonna die in the end
this is not your typical retelling of a
father-son relationship in fact we’re
not quite sure who the dad is in the
southern gothic the bomb man with his
gloves wrapped around a know jack white
kroons about a boy named ability that
wakes up to a confrontation between his
mom’s abusive boyfriend and an older
preacher Billy challenges the boyfriend
to a duel and ends up killing him with a
glass milk bottle to the face in a man
even though the lyrics are
straightforward there are some loose
ends to this tale like why Billy’s
younger brother shows up at the end with
a milk man’s hat and a bottle of gin
number six hurricane Bob Dylan pistol
shots ring out in the night
it’s a Betty that a dime from the floor
mode similar to a film script hurricane
is a protest of the real events
surrounding the arrest of boxer Rubin
hurricane Carter who was imprisoned for
a triple homicide who didn’t commit
I didn’t do it he says he throws up his
hands
I was only robbing the register I hope
you understand Dylan doesn’t mince words
and calls the trial and conviction
racially motivated the law wanting to
find a scapegoat and find so-called
justice even if that meant putting an
innocent black man behind bars the story
of the game the man the authorities gave
to me for something that he never done
the song has been revised over the years
to avoid lawsuits from witnesses of the
actual event yet it still remains
controversial the success of the song
garnered public support for Carter’s
defense and is still relevant to this
day nothing obviously pray and helmet
make you feel a shame
well justice is a good
number five Spanish train Chris de Burgh
what I’ll give you an old Seville a dead
of night the whistle blows and people
here she’s writing this songs on his
tone draws you in right from the start
and Chris de Burgh skill as a
storyteller captures the imagination a
classic tale of good versus evil
in this case God and the devil gambling
over the souls of the dead that are
trapped in the afterlife Express
Joker is the name poker is that game we
play right here on this bed and then
we’ll bet for the biggest stakes hear
the sound eh
the song was banned at one point in
South Africa of all places due to the
line but the Lord didn’t see what the
devil did mother love didn’t she well
the devil didn’t he said that suits me
fine
the idea that God might be flawed may
have been too much for some people to
handle but it’s a bigger idea than you
get with most pop songs the Sun is down
the night is right
number four piano man Billy Joel it’s
nine o’clock on a Saturday
regular crowd shuffles you will never
find a less humble humble piano player
in Billy Joel’s piano man we learn about
the lives and habits of bar regulars and
staff and it’s quick with a joke or the
light up your smoke but there’s
someplace that he’d rather
everything from their hopes and dreams
to their lonely existence and vices it’s
a great song and the piano man makes
sure to tell us just how awesome he is
in between talking about the sad lives
of everyone else
it’s an interesting analysis how being
at a bar and being happy can be just an
illusion and that everyone has a story
underneath the facade
gets done
dream
– but it’s bad
number three the Devil Went Down to
Georgia Charlie Daniels Band Devil Went
Down to Georgia he’s looking her soul to
see you he was in a bank oh he was way
behind
he’s wouldn’t liquor with you this
country classic sees the devil heading
down to Georgia to steel himself a soul
soon after old Harry finds himself a
young man named Johnny who is not only
playing a fiddle but playing it’s hot
wasn’t my name’s Johnny and it might be
a sin I’m gonna take it back you go
regrets I’m the best she’s ever been
rounded up Bill Harmsen judge and the
devil keels heart naturally Beelzebub
challenges him to a musical duel as he’s
known to do wagering a golden fiddle
against the boys soul as the devil
begins to play a band of demons joins in
and it sounds suspiciously something
like a 70s rock band in a bayou demons
join me and it sounds something like
this
our boy Johnny however is having none of
that and shows the evil evil idiot how
it’s done and it earns himself a sweet
sweet golden fiddle Johnson devil just
come on back everyone drive huh don’t
you want yourself again on the best I
can still remember how that music used
to make number two American Pie Don
McLean I knew if I had my chance that I
could make those people dance and maybe
they’d be happy for a while Don McLean’s
1971 classic American Pie has been open
to interpretation for many years on the
surface the song directly references the
deaths of musicians body Holly Ritchie
Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane
crash and is now referred to as the day
the music died
American Pie 2015 but clean revealed
that the message behind the song is one
of morality and how life has become less
idyllic and isn’t getting better which
is somehow an even bigger down there we
were
a generation
however you interpret it American Pie is
a story that will stick with you and the
boys would pick and whisk in singing
this will be today before we reveal our
top pick here are a few honorable
mentions the time until 7:00 and we’re
broke over
my energy
I make three was yesterday
to the time when I
number one Stan Eminem featuring Dido
yes shrimp I wrote you what you still
ain’t calling I left my cell my pager
and my home phone at the bottom mixing
Dido’s Thank You with Eminem’s original
verses Stan tells the story of an
increasingly obsessed fan of Eminem’s
alternate personas Slim Shady I got a
room full of your posters then you take
just man I like just did what brought
him to that was bad we hear the story
from the first-person perspective of
sand as he writes a series of
increasingly aggressive and angry
letters to slim the narrative takes a
really dark turn
showing how obsession and emulation can
completely consume someone’s life and
impact the lives of those around them
dear mr. Osgood they call and write my
friend this will be the last packets I
ever send your ass in six months still
the word I don’t deserve it I know you
about my last letters arrow keys red
zone apartment not only was the song a
huge hit but stan has also entered the
cultural vocabulary as a term for overly
obsessed fans I’m glad I inspire you
with 10 why you the man try to
understand and I don’t want you with the
fan I just don’t want you to do some
crazy so do you agree with our list what
is your favorite episodic ballad would
for more musical tales published daily
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
and in the carny founded shape but it is
safe we will soon come to think about it
his name with new suit
your favorite book these songs take you
on a trip in someone else’s shoes
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten songs that tell a story for this
list we’re looking at songs that
lyrically tell a story from birth to
verse songs with abstract concepts that
are open to interpretation like Led
Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven and
Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody won’t be
featured on this list
the same goes for theme songs so our
apologies to the Fresh Prince of bel-air
I got in one little fight and my mom got
scared and said you’re moving with your
auntie and uncle in bel-air well my
daddy left home when I was three and he
didn’t leave much come on me just this
old good talk to pretend a boy named Sue
Johnny Cash I don’t blame him cause he’s
running here but the meanest thing that
he ever did it was before he left he
went named me soon it’s one thing to
hate your old man for abandoning you but
to name a boy Sue before hitting the
road can you imagine what the years of
embarrassment would do to your
self-esteem an old guitar and a bottle
of booze are only going to go so far he
was big and fast and gray and old I
looked at him and my blood ran cold I
said my name is a bitter and tough suit
vows to find the author of his misery
and kill that poker playing snake dead
when Sue finally encounters his father
all hell breaks loose but I’m the son of
a bitch that named you even though
revenge can be pretty satisfying the man
in blacks great storytelling and barely
controlled laughter makes the quest for
vengeance bittersweet and if I ever have
a son I think I’m gonna name him bill or
George any damn thing but soon
and he was talking for a new it and as
he grew he’d say I’m gonna be like you
dad you know I’m gonna be number nine
cats in the cradle harry chapin cat’s in
the cradle and the silver spoon little
Barbie with the man of the bone don’t be
fooled by the whimsical tune there’s no
happy ending here cat’s in the cradle is
a cautionary tale of what happens when a
distant father figure is too busy to
spend time with his son he shook his
head and he said with a smile what I’d
really like that is to borrow the car
keys
see you later can I have them
the dynamic changes when the son gets
older and is too preoccupied with his
own life to catch up with his old man
father learns too late that his son made
good on his promise to be just like him
you see my new jobs a hassle and the
kids of the flu but it’s your nice
talking to you dad
it’s been sure nice talking to you it
just goes to show that even if dad
sticks around and doesn’t give his sons
a girl’s name the relationship will fail
if there’s no emotional investment when
you come at home son I don’t know when
we’ll get together there
you know we’ll have a good
number eight the general dispatch I was
decorating with the horrible and lack of
Tim to all the story seats home inspired
by Jimi Hendrix’s castles made of sand
this anti-war song is about a seasoned
general who has an epiphany of the
futility of war and encourages his men
to abandon the fight
even though it’s set in the American
Civil War the songs themes of the value
and cost of life especially lives that
are too young to have fully lived
resonates today
the tracks lyrical point of view from
the side of the general rather than his
troops makes the message even weightier
this song is a great listen to for not
only its ideas but also for that opening
hook and funky rhythm come on Josie
not sure there’s a point to start on I’m
going attend it again hmm number seven
Carolina drama the rack contours and not
just about any other tail something’s
gonna die in the end
this is not your typical retelling of a
father-son relationship in fact we’re
not quite sure who the dad is in the
southern gothic the bomb man with his
gloves wrapped around a know jack white
kroons about a boy named ability that
wakes up to a confrontation between his
mom’s abusive boyfriend and an older
preacher Billy challenges the boyfriend
to a duel and ends up killing him with a
glass milk bottle to the face in a man
even though the lyrics are
straightforward there are some loose
ends to this tale like why Billy’s
younger brother shows up at the end with
a milk man’s hat and a bottle of gin
number six hurricane Bob Dylan pistol
shots ring out in the night
it’s a Betty that a dime from the floor
mode similar to a film script hurricane
is a protest of the real events
surrounding the arrest of boxer Rubin
hurricane Carter who was imprisoned for
a triple homicide who didn’t commit
I didn’t do it he says he throws up his
hands
I was only robbing the register I hope
you understand Dylan doesn’t mince words
and calls the trial and conviction
racially motivated the law wanting to
find a scapegoat and find so-called
justice even if that meant putting an
innocent black man behind bars the story
of the game the man the authorities gave
to me for something that he never done
the song has been revised over the years
to avoid lawsuits from witnesses of the
actual event yet it still remains
controversial the success of the song
garnered public support for Carter’s
defense and is still relevant to this
day nothing obviously pray and helmet
make you feel a shame
well justice is a good
number five Spanish train Chris de Burgh
what I’ll give you an old Seville a dead
of night the whistle blows and people
here she’s writing this songs on his
tone draws you in right from the start
and Chris de Burgh skill as a
storyteller captures the imagination a
classic tale of good versus evil
in this case God and the devil gambling
over the souls of the dead that are
trapped in the afterlife Express
Joker is the name poker is that game we
play right here on this bed and then
we’ll bet for the biggest stakes hear
the sound eh
the song was banned at one point in
South Africa of all places due to the
line but the Lord didn’t see what the
devil did mother love didn’t she well
the devil didn’t he said that suits me
fine
the idea that God might be flawed may
have been too much for some people to
handle but it’s a bigger idea than you
get with most pop songs the Sun is down
the night is right
number four piano man Billy Joel it’s
nine o’clock on a Saturday
regular crowd shuffles you will never
find a less humble humble piano player
in Billy Joel’s piano man we learn about
the lives and habits of bar regulars and
staff and it’s quick with a joke or the
light up your smoke but there’s
someplace that he’d rather
everything from their hopes and dreams
to their lonely existence and vices it’s
a great song and the piano man makes
sure to tell us just how awesome he is
in between talking about the sad lives
of everyone else
it’s an interesting analysis how being
at a bar and being happy can be just an
illusion and that everyone has a story
underneath the facade
gets done
dream
– but it’s bad
number three the Devil Went Down to
Georgia Charlie Daniels Band Devil Went
Down to Georgia he’s looking her soul to
see you he was in a bank oh he was way
behind
he’s wouldn’t liquor with you this
country classic sees the devil heading
down to Georgia to steel himself a soul
soon after old Harry finds himself a
young man named Johnny who is not only
playing a fiddle but playing it’s hot
wasn’t my name’s Johnny and it might be
a sin I’m gonna take it back you go
regrets I’m the best she’s ever been
rounded up Bill Harmsen judge and the
devil keels heart naturally Beelzebub
challenges him to a musical duel as he’s
known to do wagering a golden fiddle
against the boys soul as the devil
begins to play a band of demons joins in
and it sounds suspiciously something
like a 70s rock band in a bayou demons
join me and it sounds something like
this
our boy Johnny however is having none of
that and shows the evil evil idiot how
it’s done and it earns himself a sweet
sweet golden fiddle Johnson devil just
come on back everyone drive huh don’t
you want yourself again on the best I
can still remember how that music used
to make number two American Pie Don
McLean I knew if I had my chance that I
could make those people dance and maybe
they’d be happy for a while Don McLean’s
1971 classic American Pie has been open
to interpretation for many years on the
surface the song directly references the
deaths of musicians body Holly Ritchie
Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane
crash and is now referred to as the day
the music died
American Pie 2015 but clean revealed
that the message behind the song is one
of morality and how life has become less
idyllic and isn’t getting better which
is somehow an even bigger down there we
were
a generation
however you interpret it American Pie is
a story that will stick with you and the
boys would pick and whisk in singing
this will be today before we reveal our
top pick here are a few honorable
mentions the time until 7:00 and we’re
broke over
my energy
I make three was yesterday
to the time when I
number one Stan Eminem featuring Dido
yes shrimp I wrote you what you still
ain’t calling I left my cell my pager
and my home phone at the bottom mixing
Dido’s Thank You with Eminem’s original
verses Stan tells the story of an
increasingly obsessed fan of Eminem’s
alternate personas Slim Shady I got a
room full of your posters then you take
just man I like just did what brought
him to that was bad we hear the story
from the first-person perspective of
sand as he writes a series of
increasingly aggressive and angry
letters to slim the narrative takes a
really dark turn
showing how obsession and emulation can
completely consume someone’s life and
impact the lives of those around them
dear mr. Osgood they call and write my
friend this will be the last packets I
ever send your ass in six months still
the word I don’t deserve it I know you
about my last letters arrow keys red
zone apartment not only was the song a
huge hit but stan has also entered the
cultural vocabulary as a term for overly
obsessed fans I’m glad I inspire you
with 10 why you the man try to
understand and I don’t want you with the
fan I just don’t want you to do some
crazy so do you agree with our list what
is your favorite episodic ballad would
for more musical tales published daily
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
and in the carny founded shape but it is
safe we will soon come to think about it
his name with new suit
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