Delta Dawn/Ruby Red Dress type of songs

Does being bored with your marriage and stepping out on your husband (and 4 kids) count as “damaged”?

This is another one I would put in the mean woman category.

Completely disagree. The husband, by his own words, is a narcissist: You picked a fine time to leave ME (not US); I’VE had some bad times. The only time he mentions her at all is to denigrate her.

Nothing in the song says she’s bored or stepping out–she’s gone; tired of being mistreated by a self-centered jerk who makes no time for a wife and her needs. Sounds kind of damaged to me.

She hungry for laughter, and here ever after, she’s after whatever the other life brings. (Four hungry kids be damned, I guess.)

The song’s narrator is so put off he can’t go through with sleeping with her.

Actually it’s the granny in the song who’s “wretched spiteful…”

Not so sweet Martha Lorraine

So what, the narrator’s another narcissist taking the side of the husband. Plus, he’s probably got whiskey dick.

So are the four hungry kids also narcissists?

You don’t even know there are kids. That’s the kind of thing a jerk would say to another jerk to screw up his chances with her. Why isn’t hubby home feeding the kids if they’re so damn hungry? If there are kids, you don’t know what kind of despicable little shits they might be.

Is that all there is?
Peggy Lee. How many first person ones are there?
BTW Isn’t this mission starting to creep a bit?

Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown and about 100 other Rolling Stones songs.

No, the gators got the granny.

The mama working on the chain gang is the “wretched, spiteful, straight-razor-toting woman.”

Get me a mess of it. :cool:

Crazy Mary - Victoria Williams

My personal fave from the early Cher no-song-is-complete-until-someone-gets-shot catalog is Train of Thought. Oh, so you’re going to whisper another woman’s name in your sleep? How about I just get this gun and point it at your sleeping head? How about…how about…how about I kill myself? That’ll show you, you dirty sleep-cheater.

It’s really, really great to do in karaoke.

Too Many Parties (And Too Many Pals) - Hank Williams (as Luke the Drifter)

I’m All Alone in a Palace of Stone.

Dylan’s “Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts.” Lily is the ultimate damaged woman.

And, oh yeah, Annie Christmas :smiley:

I am pleased to present Lucrecia Mac Evil by Blood, Sweat and Tears. IMHO, it is the finest example of a song with this theme that is also totally ridiculous.

Has “Angie Baby” been listed yet?

A little hard to tell what is actually being described tho

Only in the OP. :slight_smile:

I knew I saw it somewhere!

Who reads OPs, anyways?

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