# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/81 "2019-06-01T00:32:20Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Dammit, dammit, DAMMIT!!! Wait…one more dammit because there’s four of them. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/82 "2019-06-01T01:02:10Z")
_Wait Until Tomorrow_ by Jimi Hendrix: _Do I see a silhouette of somebody pointing something from a tree? CLICK, BANG Oh, what a hang Your daddy just shot poor me And I hear you say, as I fade away We don’t have to wait until tomorrow It must not have been right, so forever, goodnight_ ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/83 "2019-06-01T01:03:20Z")
[Suicidal Thoughts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlb3IZ94CwE) - Biggie ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/84 "2019-06-01T01:30:25Z")
I can’t really drop a Biggie track without balancing it out with some Tupac so… [I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto (piano version)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcKDBhnJL6Y) Not really along the rules since Tupac talked A LOT about death (and contemplated his own death) in his songs, his work doesn’t really flow in a story/narrative structure. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/85 "2019-06-01T01:32:20Z")
[I’m Sorry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjKbw1Cqpt0) - Joyner Lucas ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/86 "2019-06-01T01:38:06Z")
> [@Helmut\_Doork](#): > > Zager and Evans highly anticipated follow up to the massive “In the Year 2525” was “Mr. Turnkey”, a charming ditty about a rapist who is narrating his tale to the jailer, only to find out before doing so he has nailed his arm to the wall and is bleeding to death! Someone actually thought this was a good idea, for an A-side of a single, in 1969! It couldn’t have been any worse than “In the Year 2525.” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/87 "2019-06-01T02:22:31Z")
Michael Hurley, Peter Stampfel, and the Unholy Modal Rounders’s “Jealous Daddy’s Death Song” from **Have Moicy,** 1975. \*So now I’m leavin’ this world of sin One pretty woman and a lotta you men. I’m telling you boys Don’t you monkey with my widow when I’m gone… If any o’ you punks try to misbehave I’ll haunt your asses to an early grave. I’m telling you, telling you, telling you boys Don’t you monkey with my widow when I’m gone.\* ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/88 "2019-06-01T02:50:18Z")
Worth hearing in its entirety. Robert Christgau of the Village Voice called **Have Moicy** the greatest album of the 1970s. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wAgXwdXtTdQ/hqdefault.jpg "Jealous Daddy's Death Song - Unholy Modal Rounders") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAgXwdXtTdQ) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/89 "2019-06-01T02:59:36Z")
Maybe The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde by Merle Haggard? They certainly died. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/90 "2019-06-01T03:13:37Z")
John Prine’s _Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You into Heaven Anymore_ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/91 "2019-06-01T03:24:41Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > _[The Mariner’s Revenge Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sw61oITuts)_ > [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > The narrator isn’t dead at the end of the song, he is just about to kill his nemesis. Sometime after the song they will both be whale poop. The song ends with quite a long outro. Considering that the singer is in the belly of a whale and resigned to his fate, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that he breathes his last before the final chords. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/92 "2019-06-01T03:28:42Z")
[Highwayman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkcAH-m9W0) by The Highwaymen ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/93 "2019-06-01T04:09:10Z")
_The Last Leviathan_ by Rory Block, which is a first person accounting of the extinction of whales. And, of course, the traditional wake song _The Parting Glass_. I wanted to include _Carrickfergus_, but the singer has not quite died at the end. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/94 "2019-06-01T12:38:55Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Would “Renegade” by Styx count? > > “Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don’t have very long.” He’s an outlaw who has definitely been caught, and is definitely about to be executed. Not quite dead yet, though… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/95 "2019-06-01T12:48:32Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Maybe The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde by Merle Haggard? > > They certainly died. But they aren’t narrating the song, though. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/96 "2019-06-01T22:23:11Z")
‘What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana‘ Merle Haggard. Has anyone mentioned Long, Black Veil? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/97 "2019-06-01T22:44:22Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > He’s an outlaw who has definitely been caught, and is definitely about to be executed. > > Not quite dead yet, though… “I feel happy! I feel happy!” ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/98 "2019-06-01T23:08:10Z")
Kind of an obscure one, but [“Me And You Vs. The World”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joNeiTmW-jo) by Space (this is the second thread in the past week I’ve brought up a Space song. Very underrated band I’m clearly trying to push!). ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/99 "2019-06-02T18:36:29Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Weird Al’s “Everything You Know is Wrong:” > > I was just about to mail a letter to my evil twin > When I got a nasty papercut > And, well, to make a long story short > It got infected and I died Dang, I came here to share this one, so I’ll have to go with Al’s “Melanie”: _You weren’t impressed when I tattooed Your name across my forehead You wouldn’t listen when I promised to be true_ _I couldn’t stand it, so I jumped out From the sixteenth story window right above you Now I may be dead but I still love you_ ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-narrator-dies/834748/100 "2019-06-02T20:23:58Z")
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