^ Would that something to do with Sonny & Cher?
And while we’re on the subject, what about “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”?
I will concede the lack of pronouns, however, recall that the first line is ♫Ridin’ on the City of New Orleans … ♫. The box cannot contain itself.
In fairness, though, a later line states ♫This train’s got the disappearin’ railroad blues.♫
Going over the lyrics, I can see how it could be interpreted that way; this is just the first time I’ve heard of it. 
King Tut
The Streak
My Girl Bill
Seems to me that a lot of novelty songs quailfy
The Night Chicago Died
A few more that haven’t been mentioned:
Leningrad – Billy Joel
Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
Travelin’ Soldier – Bruce Robinson
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant – Billy Joel
Tribute – Tenacious D
Escape – Rupert Holmes (I hate that song)
Albuquerque – Weird Al
(And countless Scottish and Irish ballads.)
2 of my favorites of Bruce Springsteenthat haven’t been mentioned:
Rosalita
Meeting Across the River - imho the most underappreciated track on Born to Run.
And one from the Dead - Me and My Uncle
Dylan was indeed the master of the story song, I’d add Tangled up in Blue and Hwy 61 revisited On another note I love One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer because it is just so much fun.
If you’re referring to the Ray Stevens song (or even if you’re not), this reminds me also of Mississippi Squirrel Revival.
Several mentions already of El Paso by Marty Robbins (1959).
This is a particularly lengthy saga, in that Robbins also did two later songs extending the story:
Faleena from El Paso, 1966, a prequel telling the life story of Faleena from birth to death. (Yes, I’ve seen Faleena spelled a bunch of different ways.)
El Paso City, 1976, a sequel set in modern times, in which an airliner passenger flying above El Paso imagines himself to be the reincarnation of the cowboy from El Paso.
The Saga Begins, parody of American Pie by Weird Al Yankovic, telling the story of Anakin Skywalker.
I love Pancho and Lefty. I was listening to it the other day and came away from it differently that I had in the past. It dawned on me it was about betrayal. Lefty sold out Pancho the the federales who in turned killed Lefty.
How could I have forgotten one of my favorite Dylan masterpieces, Simple Twist of Fate?
The Decemberists’ “The Mariner’s Revenge Song”
All story songs should showcase the accordion.
A couple of me favorites from the WABAC machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3KeiPjbgcEForgot to say…great choices everybody! 
Another favorite…
Another one by Gordon Lightfoot: Canadian Railroad Trilogy.
I’m partial to The Downeaster “Alexa” and the already-mentioned Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (which, as Bonaventure will be happy to know, features Dominic Cortese on accordion).
I nominate Juke Box Hero.
“Three Wooden Crosses” by Randy Travis. It’s glurge-y and religious, but it’s wonderfully constructed right down to the twist ending.
“Swamp Witch” by Jim Stafford. If he’d just released this single and not the crappy rest of that album, he’d be remembered as the best Swamp Rocker around. Great Halloween music!
Thanks for that description, which I mostly agree with. I have a few quibbles. First, any song, even autobiographical, is going to be a view of events and to some extent fictionalized. Dylan’s story songs about real events certainly are.
My requirement is that story songs have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, Black Diamond Bay, and Brockett’s Titanic song all do. Sultans of Swing does not, being a scene, not a story. Hard Rain isn’t either.
To list two more Dylan story songs, I like Talkin’ WW III Blues and Bob Dylan’s 113th Dream.
The Doors, The End