Lost Boys by Ralph McTell is not so much a sequel but a reply to (and rebuttal of) Tribal Warriors by Maddy Prior.
Yay! I can throw my own little oddity into the mix:
Thomas Dolby had:
Europa and the Pirate Twins, and
Eastern Bloc (sequel to Europa and the Pirate Twins)
based on the titles, I’d guess they were related.
Flanders & Swann - The Hippopotamus song had a follow up several years later. One verse and chorus telling what happened to the hippo.
Huh…I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Travis Tritt’s three songs “Anymore” followed by “Tell Me I was Dreaming” and finally “If I Lost You”. I recall that the videos made it clear that the three songs were all about the same characters, and I know Travis said in one interview that they were all about the same guy, but I can’t recall if the lyrics lend themselves to figuring that out on their own.
I just read through the lyrics of all the songs, and I can’t say that you’d know they were supposed to be related just from that. If you saw the videos, you’d know, but not just hearing the songs…so they semi-qualify.
edited to take the damn apostrophe out. Stupid grammar
Ween has The Stallion parts 1, 2 and 3 (and possibly more since, I’m more familiar with their older stuff), mang.
Tom Paxton wrote “Has Annie Been In Tonight,” “Annie’s Going To Sing Her Song” and “When Annie Took Me Home.” All about an on-and-off and finally over relationship
Did Annie drop in for a beer?
Or was she into the gin?
Ah, tell me if she was here?
What kind of a mood was she in?
If she was angry still
I don’t have a hope in the hell
I don’t have a story to tell that’s bright
And say, has Annie been in tonight?
It isn’t Annie’s only tune
The other I’ll be hearing soon
Next week, tomorrow or today.
She sings it when she goes away.
Take the bottle, fill your cup.
Don’t miss the part where I fold up
Cause Annie’s going to sing her song.
Called “Take Me Back Again.”
Come on, Annie, sing your song
And I’ll take you back again.
Love can grown and love can go.
Did she love me? I don’t know.
Though she often told me so,
I never really know.
Was I blind? I don’t mind.
I think life’s been more than kind.
Thanks to life there was the time
When Annie took me home.
Bobby Vinton recorded Rose Are Red and Florraine Darling recorded a sequel As Long As The Rose Is Red. Also Claude King recorded Wolverton Mountain and Joann Campbell recorded I’m The Girl from Wolverton Mountain.
Surprised nobody’s mentioned Father of a Boy Named Sue yet. Probably Not Safe for most places,
Awww, my baby is a zombie! How cute.
The Ramones:
Judy is a Punk
The Return of Jackie and Judy
The Police-“Synchronicity I” and “Synchronicity II”
Not exactly sequels, but Steve Miller’s song The Joker refers to his previous song Gangster of Love, which refers to the previous Space Cowboy. Also in The Joker are references to Enter Maurice where the *pompatus of love *was first mentioned.
I know I am years too late with this, but “Hello I Love You Won’t You Tell Me Your Name” was by The Doors. However, The Doors blatantly stole the riff on which that song was based from The Kinks’ “All Day, and All of the Night”, which is no doubt what The Kinks were actually referencing in “Destroyer”.
It also references “Strawberry Fields Forever”, “Lady Madonna”, “The Fool on the Hill”, and “Fixing a Hole”.
Country songwriter followed up the big hit The Year Clayton Delany Dieda few years later with Son of Clayton Delaney.
I seem to remember there being some ‘reply’ songs to Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.
A bit of googlage says Superstar by Lydia Murdock
About a month after TLC released their couldn’t-avoid-it-in-1999 hit “No Scrubs,” Sporty Thievz put out a rebuttal song called “No Pigeons.”
The Leaving Song
The Leaving Song Pt. II
Both from AFI. Strangely, the band decided to make The Leaving Song Pt. II track two on their album, and The Leaving Song track eleven on the same album.
Garth Brooks did “The Thunder Rolls” and later followed it up with “The Storm.” The sequel was a letdown.
Edge of Sanity’s Crimson, a forty-minute death metal concept album, was followed (seven years later) by Crimson II, another forty-minute death metal concept album. The second is not as well regarded as the first.