# That'll teach you! Songs that are lessons

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**Created:** [December 9, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thatll-teach-you-songs-that-are-lessons/1025555 "2025-12-09T15:32:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thatll-teach-you-songs-that-are-lessons/1025555/55 "2025-12-09T18:34:39Z")

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> [@griffin1977](#):
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> > [@Czarcasm](#):
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> > It is more of an editorial/protest song than a tutorial
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> It’s also quite impressive recounting of the events of the arrest and trial (in that it’s still a fairly good song but it’s also an account of the events, not that it recounts them from an accurate or unbiased point of view)
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> It certainly taught me all I knew about the case until Wikipedia came along.

If recounting historical events counts, then I nominate the Gordon Lightfoot ballad _[The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcc8pzMNo2I)_.

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