# Songs about immortals - like The Highwayman... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678 "2020-05-12T23:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/1 "2020-05-12T23:19:32Z")
Any suggestions for songs that have immortal/reincarnated protagonists? I know about a few already: The Highwayman/Highwomen The Braggart’s Song (“I was born about 10,000 years ago…”) I Ain’t Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs I Might Have Been Queen - Tina Turner ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/2 "2020-05-12T23:26:06Z")
If you’re counting reincarnation, there’s “Galileo”, by the Indigo Girls. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/3 "2020-05-12T23:34:55Z")
Actually, come to think of it, almost all religious songs would qualify. Even if you require that the narrator, not just the protagonist, be immortal, there are still lots. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/4 "2020-05-12T23:49:23Z")
Queen songs from the Highlander soundtrack: _Princes of the Universe_ _A Kind Of Magic_ _Who Wants to Live Forever_ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/5 "2020-05-12T23:58:34Z")
> [@brossa](#): > > I Ain’t Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs In the same vein is [_Handsome Johnny_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdyr9Ceh6Q) by Richie Havens. ---
**Author:** ![Onthefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de053/32.png) [@Onthefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onthefly)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/6 "2020-05-13T00:34:22Z")
Sympathy for the Devil Stones ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/7 "2020-05-13T00:43:39Z")
[Evanescence - My Immortal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/8 "2020-05-13T00:45:20Z")
“I can live forever, if I so desire” - The Temptations, _I Can’t Get Next To You_. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/9 "2020-05-13T00:47:19Z")
Iron Man Don’t Fear the Reaper Four Horsemen ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/10 "2020-05-13T00:50:08Z")
> [@Jack\_Burden](#): > > Iron Man I am, I am, I am Superman; and I can do _anything_. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/11 "2020-05-13T00:54:53Z")
[Laurie ( Strange Things Happen )- Dickey Lee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0N4nyYS5aA) \*“You’re wrong, son. You weren’t with my daughter. How can you be so cruel To come to me this way? My Laurie left this world on her birthday - She died a year ago today.” A strange force drew me to the graveyard…\* ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/12 "2020-05-13T00:58:59Z")
_I’ve been alive forever And I wrote the very first song I put the words and the melodies together I am music, and I write the songs…_ ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/13 "2020-05-13T01:25:10Z")
Ghost Riders in the Sky ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/14 "2020-05-13T01:41:53Z")
Long Black Veil _She walks these hills in a long black veil She visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but me_ Wildfire _She comes down from Yellow Mountain On a dark, flat land she rides On a pony she named Wildfire With a whirlwind by her side On a cold Nebraska night_ ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/15 "2020-05-13T01:45:07Z")
[Shriekback - Nemesis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU) \*Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals Everybody happy as the dead come home Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis No one move a muscle as the dead come home. We feel like Greeks, we feel like Romans Centaurs and monkeys just cluster round us\* [Faun - Walpurgisnacht](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10ftE4XQvo&feature=emb_logo) _In the night-sky tonight The witches rise Wild folk and Lilith’s kind Lurking, secretly ride the winds._ > **[Lyrics Translations](https://lyricstranslate.com)** > > Lyrics Translate – Multilingual translation community. Lyrics translations fro ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/16 "2020-05-13T01:49:40Z")
Monster Mash 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/17 "2020-05-13T01:55:24Z")
Going back a little farther, Schubert’s [_The Erlking_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmvjYBo-lRY) > [@](#): > > ‘My son, why do you hide your face in fear?’ > ‘Father, can you not see the Erlking? > The Erlking with his crown and tail?’ > ‘My son, it is a streak of mist.’ ---
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[Blackbriar - Until Eternity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuvST3wGCG8) \*You feel the immortality It’s you and I until eternity Chorus: We live on and on and on, death is weak and we are strong On and on and on, time is weak and we are strong\* ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/19 "2020-05-13T03:11:22Z")
Ghostbusters ---
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Black Sabbath’s NIB. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678.md?page=2)