# Story-songs (other than Alice's Restaurant)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-songs-other-than-alices-restaurant/952802>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-songs-other-than-alices-restaurant/952802 "2021-10-20T01:34:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 18

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-songs-other-than-alices-restaurant/952802/18 "2021-10-20T02:16:44Z")

</div>

The greatest story song, “Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts” has been posted, so I post the second best:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nvKoWMX9gmU/hqdefault.jpg "Townes Van Zandt - Pancho And Lefty") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvKoWMX9gmU)

Another great story song of course is Neil Young’s “Powderfinger”:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tdPs5YXQTSw/maxresdefault.jpg "Powderfinger (2016 Remaster)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs5YXQTSw)

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-songs-other-than-alices-restaurant/952802)._