# Morbid Songs. (I know, I shouldn't go here) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 19, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678 "2020-01-19T21:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/21 "2020-01-20T16:18:15Z")
“Maxwells silver hammer came down upon her head…” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/22 "2020-01-20T16:27:51Z")
_Pulaski_ by **Drive-By Truckers** Cheerful little ditty about a small-town gal that goes to the big city and comes back home in a box. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/23 "2020-01-20T17:04:54Z")
There’s a book by Tom Reynolds,[I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You’ve Ever Heard](https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Myself-Want-Die-Depressing-ebook/dp/B01KPEREGI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=I+hate+myself+and+want+to+die&qid=1579539446&s=books&sr=1-1). Breakup songs,teenage car crash songs, depressing songs about depressed people - you name it. As for songs speficially about love/relationships, try \*Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town (I’ll Say) Goodbye to Love You Don’t Bring Me Flowers\* ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/24 "2020-01-20T18:00:27Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _Pulaski_ by **Drive-By Truckers** Which reminds me of [Casimir Pulaski Day](https://music.avclub.com/on-casimir-pulaski-day-sufjan-stevens-remembers-1798279843) by Sufjan Stevens ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/25 "2020-01-20T20:08:05Z")
I’ve been sitting here clicking on the songs. Man, I’m depressed now 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/26 "2020-01-20T21:40:38Z")
[Melanie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmApJCgqnU) “Dark” Al Yankovic ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/27 "2020-01-20T21:51:01Z")
Neko Case “Star Witness” Though really she’s got a ton of them. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zi6keFpm-BY/hqdefault.jpg "Neko Case - Star Witness") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi6keFpm-BY) ETA: you’ll probably get more songs in Cafe Society. You might want to ask a mod to move this. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/28 "2020-01-20T21:53:42Z")
Seems like there was a period during the 70’s where death-oriented top 40 songs were a thing. Like ‘Seasons in the Sun’ and ‘Billy, Don’t Be a Hero’. Probably several others too. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/29 "2020-01-20T21:56:04Z")
Never sure where this kinda thread belongs. If it warrants moving, please Mods, go ahead. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/30 "2020-01-20T21:59:48Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Seems like there was a period during the 70’s where death-oriented top 40 songs were a thing. Like ‘Seasons in the Sun’ and ‘Billy, Don’t Be a Hero’. Probably several others too. “Run, Joey, Run” ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/31 "2020-01-21T14:19:00Z")
Ozzy Osbourne’s [No More Tears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CprfjfN5PRs) On the surface, it sounds like a breakup song, but Ozzy’s phrasing makes it sinister. It’s more like a stalker’s litany to his victim after he kills her. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/32 "2020-02-09T12:36:45Z")
Here’s Stan Rogers Canadian classic about a pirate who loses higs legs at sea [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UMV34CwNMY0/hqdefault.jpg "Barrett's Privateers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMV34CwNMY0) ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/33 "2020-02-13T00:52:33Z")
[Excitable Boy](https://youtu.be/bhBJlW4Kd_A) by Warren Zevon woah. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/34 "2020-02-13T01:25:50Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Seems like there was a period during the 70’s where death-oriented top 40 songs were a thing. Like ‘Seasons in the Sun’ and ‘Billy, Don’t Be a Hero’. Probably several others too. [Indiana Wants Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YuSXEKgUmI) Any song that starts with sirens and ends with gunfire is not something to sing around the fire at church camp. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/35 "2020-02-13T01:43:11Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Does “Killing Me Softly With His Song” count? > > That song really creeped me out when I was a kid, because I took it literally. Even worse, when I was young I misheard the lyrics as “Strummin’ my face with his fingers”. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/36 "2020-02-13T01:49:38Z")
Lyle Lovett’s _L.A. County_ sounds like it’s going to be a cheery song, but it takes an unexpected turn, yet never changes the uptempo. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/37 "2020-02-13T12:33:52Z")
_He Stopped Loving Her Today_. Morbid, bittersweet, etc. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/38 "2020-02-13T12:36:32Z")
_I Hung My Head_, Johnny Cash. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/39 "2020-02-13T16:42:50Z")
Ooh. ‘Long Black Veil’ Lost of folks sang it. Lefty Frizzell wrote it I think. #7 **Chefguy** already said it. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678/40 "2020-02-13T17:50:04Z")
Wiki says: “Long Black Veil” is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. I always thought it was an old folk song. I like this version: [Sally Timms](https://youtu.be/Z6EvwWTnkgI) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-songs-i-know-i-shouldnt-go-here/846678.md?page=3)