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Originally Posted by TracySam
I didn't realize there were so few "story of a couple" songs. I don't know anything about country music, but I kind of figured there would be tons in that genre!
I wish people would stop just posting videos. It's kind of lazy really. We don't want to listen to the songs, just have you tell us a summary of the couple's story. It won't kill you to type a few lines people.
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There are a lot of songs written in the third person, but you sort of limited yourself when you said "couple" and "love songs." If you removed that stipulation almost every artist has a story with lyrics in the third person. Dylan and Elton John have quite the list of these songs. Many of Dylan's are true stories. But they aren't love songs.
"Hattie Carroll" Bob Dylan - Tells the true story of Hattie Caroll, a black bar maid with many children killed by an arrogant 24 year old white man and he only got 6 months in jail and thus the song calls attention to racism.
"Death of Emmit Till" Bob Dylan Tells the true story of Emmit Till a teenage black boy visiting his cousins in another city and someone didn't care too much for the way he looked at a white woman and lynched him.
For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free
While Emmett’s body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" Elton John Album - The songs, mostly around the theme of nostalgia for a more humble childhood and an older American culture as seen through eyes of the movies,
[included "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting ", using memories of a Market Rasen pub Taupin frequented when younger.
"All the Girls Love Alice" The story of Alice as a lesbian
"Bennie and the Jets" The song tells of "Bennie and the Jets", a fictional band of whom the song's narratoris a fan. In interviews, Taupin has said that the song's lyrics are a satire on the music industry of the 1970s. The greed and glitz of the early '70s music scene is portrayed by Taupin's words.
"Levon" from Madman Across the Water Bernie Taupin, who wrote the lyrics for "Levon", was inspired by "The Band's" co-founder, drummer, and singer Levon Helm to name the title character after him. The Band was apparently John's and Taupin's favorite group in those days. The "Alvin Tostig" mentioned in the song (Levon's father) is, according to Taupin, merely fictional.
The Classic "Ode To Billy Joe" By Bobby Gentry, who apparently kills himself jumping off the bridge. The song includes the dialog of the narrator's family at dinnertime on the day that "Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the "Tallahatchie Bridge." Throughout the song, the suicide and other tragedies are contrasted against the banality of everyday routine and polite conversation.
So, anyway, if you opened up the topic to include more than just love Songs you'd probably get a greater response.
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