Another happy one is:
"Woodstock" - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere was song and celebration
How about We Didn’t Start The Fire" by Billy Joel? That’s one’s about so many different things that there must be something happy in there somewhere. How about Doris Day? or Joe DiMaggio? Those two people don’t bring negative thoughts to me anyway.
Ah, but Tonya’s Twirls has a happy ending.
Not Happy: St. Martha’s Blues by Otis Taylor, about how his grandmother coped after his grandfather was lynched.
Very, very, very happy: Legend of the USS Titanic by Jaime Brockett, though it does play fast and loose with the history. Lyrics are here.
Not Happy: The Titanic by Leadbelly.
Stack O’Lee Blues is based on a real incident, in which “Stag” Lee Sheldon shot William Lyons in a dispute over a Stetson hat. The shooting occurred in St. Louis on December 27, 1895.
For What It’s Worth
New York Mining Disaster
:eek:
Oh my goodness! I actually get to teach Eve something??? This is a proud day for me, indeed! Usually it’s Eve who teaches the rest of us so much all the time. I am honored to share with her something she did not already know.
Actually it almost exclusively deals with her getting eaten by her dog! :smack:
(Well, the refrain anyway.)
She was a winner
that became a doggie’s dinner
She never meant that much to me
Whoa oh poor Marie
Full Lyrics
(Note that is was Nick Lowe who altered the spelling of her last name- not a mistake on my part.)
Eve, if you’d like to return the favor (and take an opportunity to show off) perhaps you can revive this dead Thread of mine from a few months ago that didn’t get any responses.
You’re awesome!
“Jeremy” by Pearl Jam. Sorry, another not so happy one.
“Cities in Dust” by Siouxsie and the Banshees. It’s about Vesuvius.
Just to set the record straight - The basis for this song was a Don McLean concert attended by **Lori Lieberman ** who penned the concept. Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox wrote the song and Lieberman was the first to record it in 1971. Flack heard the song on an airplane, and with some later encouragement from Quincy Jones, decided to record it.
I’m fairly sure that “Mary Had A Little Lamb” is based upon a real-life happening. Not so much “happy” as charmingly observant.
“Sleeps With Angels” by Neil Young, is about Kurt Cobain.
Peter Gabriel’s “Biko” is based on the death of Stephen Biko, an anti-apartheid activist who died, apparently as a result of a head injury suffered while in detention.