# Songs where narrator dies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748 "2019-05-30T01:51:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/1 "2019-05-30T01:51:58Z")
The end of Marty Robbin’s song _El Paso_ always seemed a little odd to me. - I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle, I feel the bullet go deep in my chest. From out of nowhere, Felina has found me, Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side. Cradled by two loving arms that I’ll die for, One little kiss and Felina good-bye. \* Are there other songs where a first person narrator describes their own death? ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/2 "2019-05-30T02:00:53Z")
I Hung my Head _And he’d come to fetch me To see what they’d done And we’ll ride together To kingdom come I prayed for God’s mercy 'Cause soon I’d be dead I hung my head I hung my head_ ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/3 "2019-05-30T02:01:05Z")
[(Have You Heard the News) Dewey Cox Died](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtiyLC7SDmM) ---
**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 30, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/4 "2019-05-30T02:02:53Z")
In _The Long Black Veil_ the narrator is already dead. _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_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/5 "2019-05-30T02:04:52Z")
Terry Jacks- [_Seasons In The Sun_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=YG9otasNmxI) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/6 "2019-05-30T02:07:50Z")
The Unquiet Grave, perhaps, in one of its many variations. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/7 "2019-05-30T02:10:11Z")
John Cash–25 Minutes To Go [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jxvR7ZUjaJk/hqdefault.jpg "Johnny Cash - 25 minutes to go") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxvR7ZUjaJk) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/8 "2019-05-30T02:11:06Z")
[Green, Green Grass Of Home.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u81CTfbc99c) ---
**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 30, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/9 "2019-05-30T02:13:56Z")
Ry Cooder’s [_The Girls From Texas_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HrnTMdT2Q) > [@](#): > > In tearful supplication, she looked up in my face > I could feel her heart was breaking as these sad words she did say > "You should have told me you was married, baby > As she pulled out a forty-five and let me have it, right smack between the eyes > > That’s the way the girls are from Texas > That’s the way the girls are from Texas > That’s the way the girls are from Texas > > She was guilty, I was dead! > Now, what’d you think that the old judge said ? > “Ah, that’s just the way the girls are down here in Texas > Case dismissed!” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/10 "2019-05-30T02:17:59Z")
Bob Dylan’s Romance in Durango. > [@](#): > > Was that the thunder that I heard? > My head is vibrating, I feel a sharp pain > Come sit by me, don’t say a word > Oh, can it be that I am slain? > > Quick, Magdalena, take my gun > Look up in the hills, that flash of light > Aim well my little one > We may not make it through the night ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/11 "2019-05-30T02:20:02Z")
Bloodrock: [DOA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e0e-JFio2s) \*I remember We were flying along and hit something in the air \* ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/12 "2019-05-30T02:34:37Z")
KISS - Detroit Rock City _Twelve o’clock, I gotta rock There’s a truck ahead, lights starin’ at my eyes Oh my God, no time to turn I got to laugh 'cause I know I’m gonna die Why_ ---
**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 30, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/13 "2019-05-30T02:34:46Z")
On a lighter note, Shel Silverstein’s “I’m Being Swallowed by a Boa Constrictor”. And there’s a song I heard once called “Double-Wide Grave”, about a husband who misses his widow, and it’s getting awfully lonely in that grave. But I don’t know who the original artist was, and Google isn’t helping much. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/14 "2019-05-30T02:37:06Z")
[Hangman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGzPohkyew) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/15 "2019-05-30T02:41:54Z")
The “Oh God, I’m dead” verse toward the end of _Godspell_ (sung by Jesus). ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/16 "2019-05-30T02:42:21Z")
Powderfinger ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/17 "2019-05-30T02:45:25Z")
It’s not explicit, but I always thought the speaker died at the end of Bruce Springsteen’s “Highway 29.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/18 "2019-05-30T02:45:37Z")
Neil Young - Powderfinger “Raised the rifle to my eye Never stopped to wonder why Then I saw black and my face flash in the sky Shelter me from the powder and the finger Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger Just think of me as one you never figured, to fade away so young with so much left undone Remember me to my love I know I’ll miss her” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mr.Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/19 "2019-05-30T02:46:44Z")
Isaac Lewis by Tom Russell… “For the waves they swept me overboard with the broken mast and sails And I drowned, where as a child I’d fished, on the rocks of northern Wales And in three days time I washed up on the whitened sandy shore One hundred yards from Moelfre and my father’s white oak door” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/20 "2019-05-30T02:53:12Z")
Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748.md?page=2)