Where Are All the Story Songs

Where are all the story songs, like 'Gypsies, Tramps and thieves'? 'The Gambler' and ' a boy named Sue', 'Ruby', where his wife leaves? 'The night they drove old Dixie down', the American Civil War, and 'Coward of the County' where the Gatlin boys got what for? Major Tom was up there, floating round, moonshine down Copperhead road, a Horse with no name trod the sun bleached ground, Georgia Johnny, the devil tried to goad. Honey, we still miss you, and we're still not feeling good, and 'Thriller' with those zombies lurking in your neighbourhood. Nowadays, it's all bootys , and buxom babes, half dressed in their stilettos all cruisin' round where Elvis saw a young man in the ghetto. New music, short attention spans, in years you won't recall, if it wasn't for us poets, there'd be no stories at all!