What's Your Top 3?: Songs where somebody dies

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No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.

Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri-Las
Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
Hurricane - Bob Dylan

Just missing out:

Joey - Bob Dylan
Bill McCai - The Coral
Werewolves Of London
Folsom Prison Blues
Ernie The Fastest Milkman In The West

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Nic Jones - The Drowned Lovers
Bob Dylan - Loansome Death Of Hattie Caroll
Choose your own version - John Barleycorn

Also

Richard Thompson - Vincent Black Lightning 1952

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The Hotelier - Your Deep Rest
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Sufjan Stevens - Romulus

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Does somebody die in this or is it about somebody who has previously died?

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Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Laura Cantrell - Lee Harvey was a Friend of Mine (Homer Henderson cover)
Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - O Malleys Bar

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Where the Wild Roses Grow

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Just to reiterate, we’re looking for songs where there is a death actively depicted in the lyrics.

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Yes to both

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Then you may proceed about your business.

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Hard to narrow it down to just one Chat Pile song, but let’s say Rainbow Meat. SEND MY BODY TO ARBY’S.

Can’t think of any others that fit with Funkhouser’s clarification right now.

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Although The '59 Sound by Gaslight Anthem describes a death but it’s already happened in the past. Hmmm, might have to relax the rules here JUST THIS ONCE

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Maybe changing one of these to Christian Lee Hutson - Northsiders for a more active death narrative

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Ah wait shit, I wanna change one of mine for Tryst With Mephistopheles by Owen Pallett

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Just post it anyway, what am I gonna do? Call the police?

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Cypress Hill – How I Could Just Kill A Man
Gang Starr – Just To Get A Rep
Gravediggaz – 1-800 Suicide

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Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe
Phoebe Bridgers - You Missed My Heart
Bill Ryder Jones - Daniel

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Vic Chesnutt - Flirted With You All My Life
Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie And Clyde
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Where the Wild Roses Grow
Grandaddy - Jed the Humanoid
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

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oh shit!

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Sam Amidon - Wild Bill Jones
Kendrick Lamar - Sing About Me, I’m Dying Of Thirst

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