Steve Cook’s “The Legend of the Dogman” is a great one especially for this time of year.
Oh, and how could I forget, maybe the two best story songs ever, maybe even better than Dylan, both by Richard Thompson. I’m often driven to tears when hearing them:
When I was 14 my mom and I spent the summer before I started high school giving the attic a makeover so most of it could be my bedroom. She created a playlist of 70s songs for us to listen to as we worked on it, and this one and Angie Baby were my favorites. I was…not exactly disappointed, but surprised to learn recently that The Night That Chicago Died was not based on an actual event.
here some humorous ones :
Now a country guy named ray stevens is known for these and they comprise most of his career but this one’s a hoot :
I know those 
Now I’m trying to decide if the also funny “The Cat Came Back” is too much song vs story for my own request…
Big Bad John, by Jimmy Dean
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
lol ninja’ed so I’ll post this version :
Do these count?
Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans
lol this is pg 13 but i thought it was worth a snicker :
May as well bring up Weird Al’s take on it:
Though calling that a “story” is a bit of a stretch.
C. W. has a lot of them, including “Classified,” “Crispy Critters,” and “Black Bear Road.”
I wanted to mention Mr Bojangles, but give the nod to Jerry Jeff Walker, who wrote the song and does a nice version.
I was thinking that, and a lot of other Harry Chapin songs as well. I’ve often thought that “Cat’s in the Cradle” is one of his weaker efforts–it seems to be written for Top 40 radio, as a short pop song, with a hummable chorus, and as such, it would get radio airplay. Which it did.
Chapin’s better works were generally too long for Top 40 radio, but they had to be that long for the story to be told. There were occasional repeating elements, such as “But music was his life; it was not his livelihood/And it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good,” from “Mr. Tanner,” but they tended to complement the story; not distract the listener from it.
In addition to “Thirty Thousand Pounds,” I’d recommend “A Better Place to Be” (a lonely night watchman pours out his troubles to a barmaid); “Taxi” and “Sequel” (Harry picks up his old girlfriend in his taxi and they realize they never achieved what they wanted to, then in “Sequel,” they meet again and describe how their lives have changed, and realize that after a few life changes, they have now achieved what they wanted to such a long, long time ago); and “Flowers Are Red” (a teacher absolutely destroys a child’s creative spirit).
99 Bottles of Beer, which is a story as old as time.
Some narrative songs are folk ballads passed down by word of mouth that go back hundreds of years, like “Sir Patrick Spens” Sir Patrick Spens - Wikipedia
Fairport Convention - Sir Patrick Spens - YouTube
and “Matty Groves” Fairport Convention - Matty Groves - YouTube
Another is “The Bonny Lass of Fyvie” AKA “Pretty Peggy” AKA “Fennario”
Joan Baez - Fennario - YouTube
One that I have to hold my nose while I type it because IMHO it stinks, but it’s a story song all right: “Coward of the County” by Kenny Rogers
And a song by Gordon Lightfoot, an artist I like: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - YouTube
Does “City of New Orleans” count?
I think so, it’s in my previous post.