# Rap, Folk, Blues Or Country? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083 "2006-06-01T22:50:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/61 "2006-06-03T02:23:23Z")
[QUOTE=ddgryphon] A fiance leads his bride to be off into the woods before they are married. She begs for her life, but he kils her and buries her in an unmarked grave. [/QUOTE] Pretty Polly, by The Stanley Brothers- Folk or Country ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/62 "2006-06-03T03:32:02Z")
A man is cruising in his ride through town, when his woman is disrespected by a cop. He kills the cop, then has to go on the run. But his generosity with the proceeds of his robberies make him a hero to the neighborhood folks and they help him keep free of the cops. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/63 "2006-06-03T05:21:04Z")
[QUOTE=Batsinma Belfry] Pretty Polly, by The Stanley Brothers- Folk or Country [/QUOTE] On da nose. ---
**Author:** ![cold\_cold\_night](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@cold\_cold\_night](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cold_cold_night)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/64 "2006-06-03T14:53:02Z")
A man meets a woman whom he thinks he is only attracted to for physical reasons, but before long, he finds himself in love with her and weds her. He finds that his spouse is truly his equal, both in terms of love and treachery, and the man loves her even more for these qualities. Of particular note, his wife is even prepared to be an accomplice in the man’s criminal activities. One day the man receives word that his lover is in trouble and, worried he calls her. Receiving no answer, he comes across a crime scene and starts weeping when he finds his lover dead. The man surmises that his enemies took revenge on him by taking the life of his closest friend. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/65 "2006-08-21T20:40:32Z")
[QUOTE=Case Sensitive] Another: a young man is eagerly awaiting the arrival of his amphetamine dealer, as he needs to “feel good”. This dealer is altogether an admirable character: streetwise, sharply dressed, smart, and always available when an addict’s supply runs out. The singer deeply admires and wishes to emulate his dealer, whom he views as a mentor, and hopes that the listener will too: to this end, he thinks that the listener ought to meet with the drug dealer as quickly as possible. [/QUOTE] Just to tie up the loose ends, that was the chirpy mod pop of the Small Faces’ _Here Comes The Nice_. To start a new loose end - since I’ve linked to this thread for the Pit - a man kills four others - who killed his brother - in a cocaine deal gone wrong and leaves their bodies abandoned amongst bullet ridden cars. He tried to do right, it, seems, but life had stacked the deck against him. Take heed from his example. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/66 "2006-08-21T22:08:31Z")
I don’t know that one, but this one is Woody Guthrie’s _Pretty Boy Floyd_. [QUOTE=Lemur866] A man is cruising in his ride through town, when his woman is disrespected by a cop. He kills the cop, then has to go on the run. But his generosity with the proceeds of his robberies make him a hero to the neighborhood folks and they help him keep free of the cops. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/67 "2006-08-22T01:48:40Z")
Great thread idea…no answers asides knowing Tecumseh Valley right off. Here’s anothersong to guess: Guy was named after his Daddy, and Daddy before, a moonshine runner, who bought a big ass Dodge Sheriff’s car at auction. Not so good an idea. Son of a son went to Vietnam, and came back home to work a similar business, but with more roots. This resulted in some government helicopter action, which really flipped out the returned war vet. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/68 "2006-08-22T02:02:03Z")
Thinking common burial somewhat would be chilly, the narrator asks for an alternate disposition of his body. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/69 "2006-08-22T02:18:57Z")
Sam Stone; That would be _[The Cremation of Sam McGee](http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/3532)_ ?? If so, folk. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/70 "2006-08-22T02:25:07Z")
Or “Please Don’t Bury Me” - John Prine ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/71 "2006-08-22T02:34:28Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] Great thread idea…no answers asides knowing Tecumseh Valley right off. Here’s anothersong to guess: Guy was named after his Daddy, and Daddy before, a moonshine runner, who bought a big ass Dodge Sheriff’s car at auction. Not so good an idea. Son of a son went to Vietnam, and came back home to work a similar business, but with more roots. This resulted in some government helicopter action, which really flipped out the returned war vet. [/QUOTE] Copperhead Road - Steve Earle ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/72 "2006-08-22T03:41:40Z")
[QUOTE=Enginerd] Copperhead Road - Steve Earle [/QUOTE] That’s it! I guess Steve Earle is Folk Rock Blues. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/73 "2006-08-22T04:33:09Z")
Man decides to kill his kin during a drunken stupor, pushes daughter off a cliff, after agonizing over it, kills himself. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/74 "2006-08-22T04:49:57Z")
[QUOTE=dbygawdcapn] Or “Please Don’t Bury Me” - John Prine [/QUOTE] Ding ding! And I guess it’s ‘folk’. How about this one: Having played with his food and indulged in a certain dimly lit theatrical haunch, our protagnist eventually worked in calcium enclosure construction. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/75 "2006-08-22T14:01:17Z")
A barroom dancing is having an affair with a wealthy married man. One night she reconnects with an old lover, a criminal with a gang who is planning to rob the bank. Her rich lover kills the criminal lover, and in revenge, the rich lover’s wife kills her husband. The wife goes to the gallows, and the dancer thinks about going home. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/76 "2006-08-23T21:59:44Z")
[QUOTE=dbygawdcapn] Mine : Parting words from a varied cast of characters indicates a common uncertainty of their ultimate destination. [/QUOTE] Uh…uh…Bob Dylan’s _Death Is Not The End_? I’m thinking in particular of the Nick Cave {and accomplices} cover. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/77 "2006-08-23T22:35:49Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] Man decides to kill his kin during a drunken stupor, pushes daughter off a cliff, after agonizing over it, kills himself. [/QUOTE] Country Death Song - Violent Femmes (Country, if you take their word for it) [QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] A barroom dancing is having an affair with a wealthy married man. One night she reconnects with an old lover, a criminal with a gang who is planning to rob the bank. Her rich lover kills the criminal lover, and in revenge, the rich lover’s wife kills her husband. The wife goes to the gallows, and the dancer thinks about going home. [/QUOTE] Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan (folk, I guess) A man kills a cop in self defense and flees. As a fugitive, he finds himself accused of more murders than the one he actually committed. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/78 "2006-08-23T22:39:56Z")
[QUOTE=Enginerd] A man kills a cop in self defense and flees. As a fugitive, he finds himself accused of more murders than the one he actually committed. [/QUOTE] _I Shot The Sheriff_, Bob Marley, reggae. ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/79 "2006-08-24T02:10:15Z")
I will be amazed if anyone gets this one. The narrator’s sister is developmentally delayed, and unable to walk, so the family protects her from danger. However, rumor has it that a local bum is a cannibal and a shapeshifter, and his wife is a witch. One day, the sister is sitting alone in the road, and the bum scares her so badly that she runs off. The bum walks on, smiling. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083/80 "2006-08-24T14:27:02Z")
[QUOTE=Enginerd] A stranger comes into town alone. At the bar, he buys a drink for a strange woman. They go to leave and she tries to steal his ride. He shoots and kills her in plain sight, and then continues on his way out of town. [/QUOTE] _Red-Headed Stranger_ by Willie Nelson. Country [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rap-folk-blues-or-country/359083.md?page=5)