Songs about tough guys or badasses

You have excellent taste, my friend. :slight_smile:

Drive-By Truckers, The Boys From Alabama

Don’t piss off the boys from Alabama
You know we won’t let it slide
Well, they might find your body in the Tennessee river
Or they might not find it at all
And there’ll be no place to run and hide
And your family ain’t safe at all
So don’t piss off the boys from Alabama
We’re keepin’ an eye on you

The Reverend Horton Heat - Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’

Weird Al Yankovic - C.N.R.

(best ever)

Darn… I searched for CNR and C.N.R. and didn’t notice it was already posted. Still, it bears repeating. :slight_smile:

Indestructible by Disturbed is a good one. The music video is great too.

Carl Perkins’ *Dixie Fried *(another one covered by Thorogood):

Well, Dan got happy and he started raving.
He pulled out a razor, but he wasn’t shaving.
And all the cats knew to jump and hop,
Cause he was born and raised in a butcher shop.

Judas Priest’s The Ripper.

Also by Zevon, “Hit Somebody.”

The Leader of the Pack – The Shangri-las (ostensibly at least, it’s more tell and less show).
Bad – Michael Jackson
Smooth Criminal too, I guess, depending on whether you consider the song “about” Annie or the eponymous character.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance has two badasses:
When Liberty Valance rode to town the womenfolk would hide . . . the men would step aside.
The man who shot Liberty Valance was the kind of a man the West would need to tame a troubled land . . . he was the bravest of them all.

Of course, in the movie, he wasn’t the man who did the shootin’. But in the song he did.

What else can a farm boy from Canada do? :wink:
Kevin Smith is supposedly working on a movie based on the song.