I hold Your Hand in Mine-- Tom Lehrer
Pretty Polly. Judy Collins
“Smoking Gun” by Robert Cray
I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley
Goodbye Earl - Dixie Chicks
Although you could claim the first one was self-defense and in the second one, the bastard had it coming.
Chicago’s Cell Block Tango is the [del]king[/del] QUEEN for this thread.
He had it coming, he had it coming
He only had himself to blame!
If you’d have been there, if you’d have seen it
I betcha you would have done the same.
Yeah, I agree. I thought it was an earlier Dylan song that he brought to the Wilburys, but apparently he wrote it as part of the group. So Wilburys it is.
This is what I also thought, that Dylan wrote it alone as a Springsteen parody. Didn’t know that he wrote it with Petty. Thanks for the correction, nitpick rescinded.
“God, shmod! I want my monkey-man!”
Johnny Cash has an entire compilation album called “Murder” which contains this song and many others (much older) in his recording history about that very topic.
It’s a companion to the albums “Love” and “God” and all 3 are well-worth hunting down.
That was self defence. The Sheriff was trying to murder him.
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner by Warren Zevon
“The Little Glass of Wine”, by the Stanley Brothers. An adaptation of an old English ballad. Their heartbreaking version.