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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDoes any else remember those gruesome songs from the 1950s-1970s? I don't know why
this song came to mind today, but it brought back all those death songs stored in my memory bank, starting with Pat Boone's Moody River. Anyone else feeling grotesque tonight?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)msongs
(67,193 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)whose girl friend died in a car wreck. He says "she's gone to heaven so I've got to be good so I can see may baby when I leave this world."
The nun said, "that boy has faith."
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Not a huge fan of Pearl Jam but always dug this version.
argyl
(3,064 posts)Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)a few years before me.
As small a place as it was, I didn't know him.
hashtag: brushes with fame
LNM
(1,068 posts)House of Roberts
(5,119 posts)Probably the worst one I remember.
iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,598 posts)ChazII
(6,198 posts)that made me shudder. "The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying...."
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)Freelancer
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|Ptah
(32,983 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)brings back memories. I was about 10, my sister was 8. My cousin had it at her house. My sister played it so much that my cousin gave it to her on the condition that she not play it there again. At home, I saw my baby brother step on it and break it, but my sister accused me of breaking it because I was sick of hearing it. Also, I was sick of Bye Bye Birdie, but I didn't break that one.
Zambero
(8,954 posts)sl8
(13,584 posts)Freelancer
(2,107 posts)[link:
|wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)after playing duck and cover every week.
Then the Pentagon brought us new fun and games. You're going to die in Vietnam after high school.
What the hell was there to live for? Drug, sex and rock and roll
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,771 posts)explosion kinda went with it.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Freelancer
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(10,081 posts)Ode to Billy Joe
sl8
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Now I know exactly what I'm going to do
It's been so long since your vital signs went
And you don't look the same in that oxygen tent
Now if I get I get caught
I don't care if I get hung
I can't let my baby linger on in an iron lung
Good-bye my sweet
Understand what I've done
You can't suffer no more if the motor won't run
I pulled the plug!
I pulled the plug!
Yeah, I pull the plug on my love!
I pulled the plug!
I pulled the plug!
Yeah, I pull the plug on my love!
Yeah, something like this...
You look so pale
You've lost so much weight
Well, six months ago was the last time you ate
If you would just smile
My tears would come like a flood
But your heart ain't even pumping
Your body's all done
Now if I get caught
Oh, they can give me the chair
At least I know I didn't just leave you lying there
Good-bye my sweet
Understand what I've done
You can't suffer no more if the motor won't run
I pulled the plug!
I pulled the plug!
Yeah, I pull the plug on my love!
rurallib
(62,342 posts)Iggo
(47,486 posts)I was born in the early sixties.
I just assumed being a teenager was dangerous.
japple
(9,773 posts)cos dem
(895 posts)I'm pretty sure it's meant to be a spoof on the genre of death songs.
Iggo
(47,486 posts)japple
(9,773 posts)Oh, by the way, did anyone notice the caption on The Buoy's album cover: "Give Up Your Guns"
I found myself alone
I turned to touch her hair, but she was gone
She was gone
And there beside my pillow
Were her tears from the night before
She said, give up your guns and face the law
I robbed a bank in Tampa
And I thought I had it made
But the hounds picked up my trail within the glades
So I ran
And I stumbled on this cabin
And she came to me once more
She said, give up your guns and face the law
I don't wanna leave her
I don't wanna die
Deep within a cold, cold grave
With no one 'round to cry
But I have got my pistol
Now it's time to choose
Shooting here or hanging there
And either way I lose
And now, I'm in this cabin
Where my own true love should be
Instead, there lies a note she wrote to me
And it says
No, you can't live by the bullet
But you sure as death can die
My love, give up your guns or say goodbye, goodbye
And the sheriff now is calling
With his shotgun at my door
Son, give up your guns and face the law
Songwriters: R. Holmes / D. Jordan
Give Up Your Guns lyrics © S.I.A.E. Direzione Generale, Music Sales Corporation
Eugene
(61,592 posts)"Timothy" is one of my favorites.
Zambero
(8,954 posts)A tear-jerking promotion for a double teenage suicide.
subterranean
(3,427 posts)A group called Wednesday also had a hit with a cover of this song in 1974.
oregonjen
(3,316 posts)This actually came on my playlist this this morning.
dflprincess
(28,057 posts)I believe this is based on an old ghost story
Mopar151
(9,965 posts)Lefty Frizzell, who wrote some other sad classics like "Detroit City" penned this one. Looking for a GA Satellites Bootleg of this - found it!
Grasswire2
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|Amyishere
(69 posts)NBachers
(16,999 posts)"The Wreck on the Highway" is particularly gruesome:
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)He killed a girl and now going to hang. My Norwegian mom used to sing it while putting curlers in my hair, it was on the radio all the time.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)"...or I shall die"
Something about waiting for a telephone to ring.
NBachers
(16,999 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)I remember it from the drive-in....
"Town Without Pity"
When you're young and so and love as we
And bewildered by the world we see
Why do people hurt us so
Only those in love would know
What a Town Without Pity can do..
If we stop to gaze upon a star
People talk about how bad we are...
Ours is not an easy age
We're like tigers in a cage
What a Town Without Pity can do..
The young have problems Many problems
We need an understanding heart..
Why don't they help us, try to help us
Before this clay and granite planet falls apart...
Take these eager lips and hold me fast..
I'm afraid this kind of joy can't last
How can we keep love alive
How can anything survive
When these little minds tear you in two..
What a town Without Pity can do..
How can we keep love alive
How can anything survive
When these little minds tear you in two..
What a town Without Pity can do..
empedocles
(15,751 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)still comes back to me occasionally after well over 50-years.
Amazing how that first teenage heartbreak never leaves us....
DFW
(54,050 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)Try these:
DFW
(54,050 posts)Like just about every song on the Excitable Boy album!
(Send Lawyers, Guns and Money!)
llmart
(15,499 posts)Sappy.
Laffy Kat
(16,354 posts)"Honey" was the first sappy song I remember. As a little girl, it really got to me, LOL.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He also wrote Escape (The Pina Colada Song). Yeah, ear worm, too bad.
WheelWalker
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(9,291 posts)But here is a song about a dead girl and a horse.
Mendocino
(7,430 posts)Down By The River
Hey Joe
Mechanical World-Spirit
some lyrics:
Death falls so heavy on my soul
Death falls so heavy, makes me moan
Somebody tell my father that I died
Somebody tell my mother that I cried
Zorro
(15,691 posts)Not gruesome, but very poignant.
Doc_Technical
(3,502 posts)hunter
(38,264 posts)Marthe48
(16,689 posts)But he was clockin' 97 when he passed the Pearly Gates. Leadfoot, leadfoot, speed was always great, right foot on the floorboard and his left foot on the brake.
We knew them all by heart. The neighborhood girls my sister's age would sing Tommy and Laura on the bus riding to school.
Laffy Kat
(16,354 posts)TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)Not so gruesome as it is sad.