# How many songs have a death in them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789 "2000-09-11T17:28:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789/81 "2003-06-06T12:50:30Z")
I just love “Ebony Eyes” by the Everly Brothers “I’ll never kiss those lips again. They buried you today” They don’t write them like that anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789/82 "2003-06-11T06:03:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pammipoo \* > \*\*The Freshman- Verve Pipe > > There’s another song I can’t put my finger on the lyrics or title…it was about a couple driving down a highway, and getting in a car accident, and the girl died…they came out with a remake a few years back…Where did my baby go, or something? > > God this is gonna bug me until I figure it out \*\* Ooh, I remember another couple of lines! “You’ve gone to heaven so I’ve got to be good so I can see my baby when I le-ave, this world” Still bugging the hell out of me… ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789/83 "2003-06-11T07:02:48Z")
Tell laura I Love her was by Ray Peterson. Star Crossed Lovers-Mystics Echo-Emotions Stagger Lee -Lloyd Price Laurie(Strange Things Happen) by Dicky Lee about a girl who comes out of grave. Three Bells -Browns Terror of Highway 101-Cheers Day in the Life-Beatles Artificial Flowers-BDarin Three stars-Tommy Dee Ringo-Lorne Greene American Pie-Don McLean Ballad of Davy crocket-Fess Parker The Bells-Dominoes-lead singer Clyde McPhatter sobs hysterically at lady friend’s funeral. The all time best death song. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789/84 "2003-06-11T07:09:32Z")
**Pammipoo** , that’s “Last Kiss” (mentioned above). A few more : “Heartbreaker”, Rolling Stones “American Girl”, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers “Ringfinger”, Nine Inch Nails (although it only mentions ‘dying’, death is a strong theme). “Ellis Unit One”, Steve Earle (from Dead Man Walking soundtrack, also two songs with the title “Dead Man Walking” by Bruce Springsteen & Mary Chapin Carpenter, and yet another Tom Waits song “The Fall of Troy”) “Pull Me Under”, Dream Theater “This Train Revised”, Indigo Girls “Fair”, “Brick”, Ben Folds Five “Elegy for the Brave”, William Shatner ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789/85 "2003-06-11T07:10:06Z")
Pamm-that is Last Kiss by J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers-1964-Josie label. Texas group. Teen Angel-Mark Dinning ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789/86 "2003-06-11T13:00:53Z")
I can’t believe nobody mentioned Lou Reed’s “Street Hassle”!After posting this I’m going to re-listen to it-just in case I’m wrong about it fitting this topic. ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789/87 "2003-06-11T13:19:46Z")
Yeah - it fits - and as an aside - I dare anyone to listen to that song and not tear up. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789/88 "2003-06-11T15:19:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spoke- \* > The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult Don’t forget _Nosferatu_. Lots of death in that one, and some undeath as well. 🙂 **Extraneous** , if we delve into folk/traditional music, we’ll be here until _we_ die. Off the top of my head: [ul] [li]Step It Up Mary [/li][li]Paddy Murphy[/li][li]Ballad of Glen Coe[/li][li]Yo Ho Ho[/li][li]Roddy McCorley[/li][li]Green Fields of France[/li][li]The Ship that Never Returned[/li][li]Finnegan’s Wake (Temporarily, at least.)[/li][li]Irish Rover[/li][li]Patchwork (Very disturbing. Two children freeze to death.)[/li][li]Danny Boy (Which my nephew once described as “dangerously depressing”.)[/li][li]Yew Tree[/li][li]Bedlam Boys[/li][li]The Farmer’s Curst Wife[/li][li]Pretty Polly[/li][li]Old Devlins Was A-Waitin’[/li][/ul] Enough. I need a drink now. Possibly several. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789/89 "2003-06-11T16:43:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Heloise \* > **Hmm, what was the name of that one: > “I saw your mommy and your mommy was dead!” > By a punk group.** [Suicidal Tendencies](http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/suicidaltendencies/suicidaltendencies.html#3) NP: **Social Distortion** - _Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell_ oh, and add **SD** s _99 to life_ to the list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-a-death-in-them/32789.md?page=4)