A Boy Named Sue

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what it’s called but it goes through the years of the singers life (16 for a moment) and the refrain is something like…when you’ve only got 100 years to live…it’s like you feel time moving in the song. Tear-jerker!

100 Years, Five For Fighting

Not sure what it’s called but it goes through the years of the singers life (16 for a moment) and the refrain is something like…when you’ve only got 100 years to live…it’s like you feel time moving in the song. Tear-jerker!

The Living Years, Mike + The Mechanics

Speed Trap Town - Jason Isbell

Cats in the cradle
Stairway to heaven

Cleopatra - The Lumineers
Kathleen - Josh Ritter
Idaho - Josh Ritter
Deeper Water - Paul Kelly

Brandy by Looking Glass

Anonymous wrote:Dolly Parton- Coat of Many Colors

+1 Oh, yes!!

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks

Goodbye to you, my trusted friend
But we've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together, we've climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and ABC's
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees
Goodbye, my friend, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
Goodbye, papa, please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along

Dolly Parton- Coat of Many Colors

The River - Bruce Springsteen
Two - Antlers
Black Diamond Bay -Bob Dylan

Rich Men North of Richmond

The Weight
Banded Clovis
Let Her Cry
Ode to Billy Joe
Gimme Three Steps
Hallelujah

Anything Bruce ever sung.

One of the best classic story songs is "Meadowlark":

When I was a girl, I had a favorite story
Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind
Her voice could match the angels in its glory
But she was blind,
The lark was blind

An old king came and took her to his palace
Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid
And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice
And he prayed

"Sing for me, my meadowlark
Sing for me of the silver morning
Set me free, my meadowlark
And I'll buy you a priceless jewel
And cloth of brocade and cruel
And I'll love you for life if you will
sing for me"

Then one day as the lark sang by the water
The god of the sun heard her in his flight
And her singing moved him so, he came and brought her
The gift of sight,
he gave her sight

And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendor
Of this beautiful young god, so proud and strong
And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender "Come along
Fly with me, my meadowlark
Fly with me on the silver morning
Past the sea where the dolphins bark
We will dance on the coral beaches
Make a feast of the plums and peaches
Just as far as your vision reaches,
fly with me"

But the meadowlark said no
For the old king loved her so
She couldn't bear to wound his pride
So the sun god flew away and when the king came down that day
He found his meadowlark had died
Every time I heard that part I cried

And now I stand here, starry-eyed and stormy
Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb
A beautiful young man appears before me
Singing, "Come, oh won't you come?"
And what can I do if finally for the first time
The one I'm burning for returns the glow
If love has come at last it's picked the worst time
Still I know I've got to go

Fly away, meadowlark
Fly away in the silver morning
If I stay, I'll grow to curse the dark
So it's off where the days won't bind me
I know, I leave wounds behind me
But I won't let tomorrow find me back this way

Before my past once again can blind me, fly away
And we won't wait to say goodbye
My beautiful young man and I


Written by
Stephen Schwartz

Troubled Times by Fountains of Wayne