Over the weekend, I found myself wondering how many people were killed in GD songs and covers, and I thought the zone would be a good place to do some preliminary research. Candyman got me thinking about this; should Mr. Benson be counted as a kill?
when a dragon with matches is loose on the town, you'd think there would be some collateral damage, before they could get their hands on a pail of water.
unless it's the kinda town where a city ordinance requires pails of water to be at the ready
Bss, it's way too early for a ruling; we're just collecting data right now. But I would say that what I had in mind is explicit kills, so Mr. Benson doesn't make the cut, nor would Ken's post about Morning Dew, where it's implied that legions have died.
I also have to mention here that your line--"this is really racking my brain mike"--has cracked me up a couple of times already today.
Bird Song All I know is she sang a little while and then flew off.
Brown Eyed Women Tumble down shack in Big Foot county.
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in.
Delilah Jones went to meet her God,
And the old man never was the same again.
Well death don't have no mercy in this land
Well death don't have no mercy in this land
In this land
He come to your house, he don't stay long Look in the bed, find your mother's gone
I said death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land
In this land
You know he come to your house, and he don't stay long One of these days, you know your father will be gone
Death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
Well you know death don't take no vacation in this land
Well death don't take no vacation in this land
In this land
Well he come to your house, and he don't stay long One of these days you know your family's gonna be gone
I said death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
Well now death will leave you standing and crying in this land
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land
In this land
I said he come to your house, you know he don't stay long Look in the bed, you know one of these days, your own self will be gone
I said death don't, death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
Well now death don't have no mercy in this land
Well death don't have no mercy in this land
In this land
Well, he come to your house, you know he don't stay long Look in the bed, your whole family's gone
I said death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
All of my friends come to see me last night
I was laying in my bed and dying
Annie Beauneu from Saint Angel
Say "the weather down here so fine"
Just then the wind
Came squalling through the door
But who can
The weather command?
Just want to have
A little peace to die
And a friend or two
I love at hand
Fever roll up to a hundred and five
Roll on up
Gonna roll back down
One more day
I find myself alive
Tomorrow
Maybe go
Beneath the ground
See here how everything
Lead up to this day
And it's just like
Any other day
That's ever been
Sun goin up
And then the
Sun it goin down
Shine through my window and
My friends they come around
Come around
Come around
The people may know but
People don't care
That a man could be
As poor as me
Take a look at poor Peter
He's lying in pain
Now let's go run
And see
Run and see
Run and see
Run, run, and see
Hey, hey, run and see
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 01:52 pm
Three dead from "Me and My
Three dead from "Me and My Uncle"
Can't even begin to speculate about "Morning Dew"
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 01:53 pm
"When I get back to Memphis,
"When I get back to Memphis, there will be one less man alive."
"If I had me a shotgun, I'd blow you straight to hell."
One line sys someone is dead. The other infers that the guy didn't have a gun to do it.
Beats me.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 01:54 pm
Bobby's uncle
Bobby's uncle
Narrator in El Paso.
Baby in morning Dew?
Not sure if Stagger Lee does after being shot in balls
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 01:55 pm
Shannon killed the watchman.
Shannon killed the watchman. Jack killed Shannon.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 01:57 pm
Mr. Benson still kickin'...
Mr. Benson still doing well... "if I had" denotes he ain't got no shotgun.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 02:09 pm
Sweet William
Sweet William
Delilah Jones
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 02:12 pm
with a dragon with matches
when a dragon with matches is loose on the town, you'd think there would be some collateral damage, before they could get their hands on a pail of water.
unless it's the kinda town where a city ordinance requires pails of water to be at the ready
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 02:15 pm
Stagger Lee lived
Stagger Lee lived
Billy Delyon died
Gomorrah definitely died
The stranger who hadn't heard the news also gets it
St. stephen was stoned to death
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 02:21 pm
The stranger who didn't even
The stranger who didn't even draw in Mexicali Blues, "'Cause I shot first and killed him".
Edit: Beat me to it, Bss.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 02:28 pm
He's gone
He's gone
Black Peter was in pretty rough shape, but I think he made it out of the song alive
Mason dies right off the bat
all who could not sink or swim
Brother Esau killed a (Meredith?) hunter, back in 1969
west LA Fadeaway
this is really racking my brain mike
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 02:34 pm
All that and "Me And My Uncle
All that and "Me And My Uncle" is actually a John Phillips song... you did say cover's, my bad.
Carry on.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 02:38 pm
"Gommorah"- Lott's wife. Boom
"Gommorah"- Lott's wife. Boom.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 02:41 pm
Pistol shot at 5 o' clock
Pistol shot at 5 o' clock
The Belles of Heaven Ring...
Someone died there, but it's not spelled out...
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 03:21 pm
Sampson & Delilah, we got 10
Sampson & Delilah, we got 10,000 + 1, and the lion:
He stretched out his arm, God knows, chains broke like thread,
When he got to moving, ten thousand was dead.
and
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paws,
But Samson got his hands around that lion's jaws.
He ripped the beast till he killed him dead.
The bees made honey in the lion's head
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 03:23 pm
Standing on the Moon
Standing on the Moon
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 03:34 pm
Abel
Abel
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 03:47 pm
Brother Esau killed a hunter.
Brother Esau killed a hunter.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 03:55 pm
Box of Rain
Box of Rain
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 03:59 pm
El Paso. One little kiss,
El Paso. One little kiss, and Feleena, goodbye
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 04:02 pm
Phil sang box of rain to his
Phil sang box of rain to his dying father, but nobody actually dies in the song.
I suppose similar reasoning could be given about he's gone or the belushi song, though very technically speaking belushi was killed by another.
mike i think we need a ruling here. Is this a total death count or confirmed kills only?
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 04:09 pm
The protagonist is killed in
The protagonist is killed in El Paso, but that's not until the last verse.
the handsome young stranger was killed first.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 04:14 pm
He killed another stranger in
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 04:17 pm
the jewelry man is taken out
the jewelry man is taken out by Dupree
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 04:19 pm
Good one ^
Good one ^
settled his tab in lead
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 04:51 pm
> mike i think we need a
> mike i think we need a ruling here
Bss, it's way too early for a ruling; we're just collecting data right now. But I would say that what I had in mind is explicit kills, so Mr. Benson doesn't make the cut, nor would Ken's post about Morning Dew, where it's implied that legions have died.
I also have to mention here that your line--"this is really racking my brain mike"--has cracked me up a couple of times already today.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 05:05 pm
Stagger Lee probably wished
Stagger Lee probably wished he was dead.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 05:11 pm
Maybe someday I will dance on
Maybe someday I will dance on your grave, unable to dance I'll crawl across it
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 05:18 pm
seems like somebody should
seems like somebody should have died in Loser and Dire Wolf
my hopes of an epic encore died when they played dayjob
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 05:30 pm
grandpa died last week
grandpa died last week
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 05:35 pm
RIP Mrs. Jones
RIP Mrs. Jones
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 07:06 pm
Sugaree:
Sugaree:
"When they come to take you down
When they bring that wagon around
When they come to call on you
And drag your poor body down"
"One last voice is calling you
And I guess it's time you go"
Kind of oblique, but seems like Sugaree is meeting her maker for her 'crime'.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 07:15 pm
The goat from US Blues got
The goat from US Blues got skinned. I'd say that's a kill
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 07:26 pm
Wasn't Dire Wolf about the
Wasn't Dire Wolf about the Zodiac Killer? How many did he off.
Bird Song + 1
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 08:38 pm
Cryptical Envelopment - you
Cryptical Envelopment - you know he had to die...
Death Don't Have No Mercy, and whatever did become of the baby??
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 09:28 pm
Jack-A-Roe - ten thousand
Jack-A-Roe - ten thousand fell and among the dead and wounded, her boy she found. So we'll say at least half were killed.
Valerie - he shot his dog because he barked (probably dead)
Werewolves of London - little old lady got mutilated
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 10:09 pm
I'll file this one from Sing
I'll file this line from Sing Me Back Home under Close, but no cigar: "The warden led the prisoner down the hallway to his doom."
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 10:18 pm
Dead and Company killed the tempos
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 10:18 pm
He was a Friend of Mine.
He was a Friend of Mine.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 10:55 pm
The dude who turned 21 in
The dude who turned 21 in prison doing life without parole probably offed someone.
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on Monday, November 23, 2020 – 11:31 pm
Cream Puff War - no one died
Cream Puff War - no one died but it was still messy
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 12:29 am
Ruby turned to stone.
Ruby turned to stone.
Can that be fixed?
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 12:57 am
Good thread.
Good thread.
DaBreeze, he shot the dog 'cause it growled at her....
The only quote I've read about Dire Wolf and the Zodiac, was when Garcia would be driving from SF back to Marin after the recording sessions,
during the Zodiac killings, and he'd stop at an intersection with a red light and would say "Don't murder me, don't murder me..."
He sounded like he was serious about it at the time, but I don't think Hunter had that connection....
Of course, the final Dire Wolf was played at Deer Creek in '95 on the night of the death threat...
Garcia's gallows humor, indeed.
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 03:29 am
New Speedway Boogie -- In the
New Speedway Boogie -- In the heat of the sun a man died of cold
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 03:46 am
Cryptical Envelopment You
Louis Collins Angels laid him away.
Bird Song All I know is she sang a little while and then flew off.
Brown Eyed Women Tumble down shack in Big Foot county.
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in.
Delilah Jones went to meet her God,
And the old man never was the same again.
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 07:56 am
The prisoner is "Sing Me Back
The prisoner is "Sing Me Back Home" definitely dies shortly after the song ends, I'd say.
I interpret
"She came and went
and at last went away"
as Rosemary dying but I guess it's up open for interpretation
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 08:36 am
Okay, Dire Wolf for sure.
Okay, Dire Wolf for sure.
I'm a little confused about counting metaphors and analogies
In The Other One, it's not death, it's finding a new conscienceless
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 09:13 am
Cassidy Catch colt draws a
Cassidy Catch colt draws a coffin cart.
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 09:29 am
See that My Grave is Kept
See that My Grave is Kept Clean.
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 09:36 am
Well death don't have no
Well death don't have no mercy in this land
Well death don't have no mercy in this land
In this land
He come to your house, he don't stay long
Look in the bed, find your mother's gone
I said death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land
In this land
You know he come to your house, and he don't stay long
One of these days, you know your father will be gone
Death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
Well you know death don't take no vacation in this land
Well death don't take no vacation in this land
In this land
Well he come to your house, and he don't stay long
One of these days you know your family's gonna be gone
I said death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
Well now death will leave you standing and crying in this land
Death will leave you standing and crying in this land
In this land
I said he come to your house, you know he don't stay long
Look in the bed, you know one of these days, your own self will be gone
I said death don't, death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
Well now death don't have no mercy in this land
Well death don't have no mercy in this land
In this land
Well, he come to your house, you know he don't stay long
Look in the bed, your whole family's gone
I said death don't, death don't have no mercy in this land
Rev. Gary Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPh7EbB1Tw
GD Hampton 10/09/89: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wA-cm_bo58
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 10:47 am
Then God way up in heaven one
Then God way up in heaven one day for her did call
I lost my bride, oh how I loved her, my Rosa Lee McFall
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 11:36 am
Dark stars aren't people but
Dark stars aren't people but they crash and pour their light into ashes which insinuates death.
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on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 – 10:56 pm
^^^ based on Sloppy Joe's
^^^ based on Sloppy Joe's statement about "ashes which insinuates death," then Throwing Stones might qualify
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philzone Refugee Herbal Dave
on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 – 02:20 am
They covered Al Green's Take
They covered Al Green's Take Me To The River, which has the line "watching me drown" in it.
Casey Jones lyrics don't specifically mention death, but we all know how that story ends.
Eternity is focused on the afterlife.
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on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 – 03:06 am
The main guy in Long Black
The main guy in Long Black Veil dies and also someone 'neath the town hall light
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on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 – 09:49 am
Black Peter
Black Peter
All of my friends come to see me last night
I was laying in my bed and dying
Annie Beauneu from Saint Angel
Say "the weather down here so fine"
Just then the wind
Came squalling through the door
But who can
The weather command?
Just want to have
A little peace to die
And a friend or two
I love at hand
Fever roll up to a hundred and five
Roll on up
Gonna roll back down
One more day
I find myself alive
Tomorrow
Maybe go
Beneath the ground
See here how everything
Lead up to this day
And it's just like
Any other day
That's ever been
Sun goin up
And then the
Sun it goin down
Shine through my window and
My friends they come around
Come around
Come around
The people may know but
People don't care
That a man could be
As poor as me
Take a look at poor Peter
He's lying in pain
Now let's go run
And see
Run and see
Run and see
Run, run, and see
Hey, hey, run and see
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on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 – 11:14 am
What's become of the baby
What's become of the baby this cold December morning?
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on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 – 05:43 pm
couple Dylan tunes that the
couple Dylan tunes that the boys covered:
Stuck Inside of Mobile -- Grandpa died last week, and they buried him in the rocks
Queen Jane -- Now when all the clowns that you have commissioned, have all died in battle or in vain