Non-Hip Hop First Person Outlaw Songs

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Songs where the narrator of the song sings about killing/robbing/being an outlaw, outside hip hop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI5LWwC-cE8

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:15 (fourteen years ago)

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

this is not a knock on the discussion on the nas thread, it just got me thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI5LWwC-cE8

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp_ivMnp0lM

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpYet4rFpu0

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObzKavim1gk

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhMiKeSffns

already posted on the Nad thread but reposting here for extra awesomeness

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZEJS1bxK0

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:22 (fourteen years ago)

Fugazi - "Margin Walker"

― Trip Maker, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

possibly the most famous one ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Ts4M3irWM

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq344ks1ieg

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-34xJCI7MY

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:26 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKlLbAAQFeA

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:27 (fourteen years ago)

I guess it doesn't count until you post a YouTube embed, huh?

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

OK, I'LL start it: Rolling Banda/Duranguense/Narcocorrido/Flashy Matching Suits Regional Mexican Thread 2009

― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v9b3-OR__o

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

"down in the willow garden" is such a brilliant song. osborne bros version is my favorite but i can't find it anywhere on youtube.

― cute fascist hardass (zachlyon), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:29 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3YFmpSFJ40

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvysgS64DNw

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:31 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfyrRNP1ZpU

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:32 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeKW4oFg-KA

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

i heard that there were a couple of death metal songs like this.

― scott seward, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwcOhOv4fho&playnext=1&list=PL87FF6D7211D4C4D9

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCkeiBZl2W0

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:35 (fourteen years ago)

debating whether to get into the numerous metal songs that fall under this category

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:37 (fourteen years ago)

lol scott
xp

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:37 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hruhe6n7Stk

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:37 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEQL6z1U0wY

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxQbvSjQy9A

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn44uIgDG8I

― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO67h_359wM

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHk4DLvz9AA

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

how many versions of "Hey Joe" should I post

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:40 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN3HcBufOVs

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:42 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jxs0ybnsEQ

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:43 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nz9jR_AuLM

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7KJatOjsEw

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7OjMA1QAPY

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOqFAsJe-Cg

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E26dBq-98Po

^^^actual murderer fwiw

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVww5r4Nk0

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB7pdug4Mvc

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyj4ciJk34

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 21:17 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBf_geCVbm8

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 21:19 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjscFtVwHtc&feature=related

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzr5Ip4vP0

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

Interesting that all these songs are about killing women, whereas killing in hip hop songs is more equal opportunity

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

Neil Young's "Revolution Blues," even though the first-person voice is more or less Charles Manson's.

― clemenza, Monday, 6 June 2011 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuDtVYX2KVs

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

skip spence - weighted down

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 6 June 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsGfJ2M9svg

― brio, Monday, 6 June 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

Gary Puckett & the Union Gap- "Young Girl"
Judas Priest- "Breaking the Law"
all Brainbombs songs

― CharlieS, Monday, 6 June 2011 22:53 (fourteen years ago)

Night Prowler doesn't count, AC/DC said that song was about a dude sneaking into a girl's room. Doesn't get retconned just cuz of Richard Ramirez!

― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 June 2011 23:39 (fourteen years ago)

fucking love this song. great lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRht55T12Ms

― jaxon, Monday, 6 June 2011 23:42 (fourteen years ago)

Night Prowler doesn't count, AC/DC said that song was about a dude sneaking into a girl's room. Doesn't get retconned just cuz of Richard Ramirez!

gtfo this is quite clearly about a dude sneaking into a someone's room and stabbing them. which is a crime, last time I checked.

Somewhere a clock strikes midnight
And there's a full moon in the sky
You hear a dog bark in the distance
You hear someone's baby cry
A rat runs down the alley
And a chill runs down your spine
And Someone walks across your grave
And you wish the sun would shine
Cause No one's gonna warn you
And no one's gonna yell 'Attack'
And you don't feel the steel
Till it's hanging out your back
CHORUS:
I'm your Night Prowler, asleep in the day
I'm your Night Prowler, get out of my way
Look out for the Night Prowler, watch you tonight
I'm the Night Prowler, when you turn out the light ...
Too scared to turn your light out
'Cos there's something on your mind
Was that a noise outside your window?
What's that shadow on the blind?
As you lie there naked
Like a body in a tomb
Suspended animation
As I slip into your room
CHORUS

Solo
CHORUS
I'm your Night Prowler, break down your door
I'm your Night Prowler, crawling 'cross your floor
I'm your Night Prowler, make a mess of you, yes I will
Night Prowler, and I am telling this to you
There ain't nothing you can do
(Shazbot Nanu Nanu)

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 23:46 (fourteen years ago)

i'm just saying what AC/DC said on VH-1 behind the music, and know full well they could be full of shit.

On VH1's Behind the Music on AC/DC, the band claimed that while the song had taken on a murderous connotation by Ramírez, it is actually about a boy sneaking into his girlfriend's bedroom at night.

― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 June 2011 23:50 (fourteen years ago)

the steel hanging out her back could be a sexual instrument that he misapplied?

― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 June 2011 23:50 (fourteen years ago)

nice boyfriends yell "ATTACK" before they break down their girlfriend's doors amirite

― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 23:53 (fourteen years ago)

well they don't do things the same way in Australia...

― my downeaster ilxor (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 June 2011 23:56 (fourteen years ago)

"down in the willow garden" is such a brilliant song. osborne bros version is my favorite but i can't find it anywhere on youtube.

― cute fascist hardass (zachlyon), Monday, June 6, 2011 4:29 PM (3 hours ago)

also search the Osbornes' version of "Knoxville Girl", and the Kossoy Sisters' version of "Willow Garden" while you're at it.

― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

not all of these are in the first person, but

wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murder_ballads

― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:19 (fourteen years ago)

came in here to post noted bestsongever "mama tried" but was beaten

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:26 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3kK2l4on9w&feature=related

― brio, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 03:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVxQcsdpWI

― brio, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 03:03 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTV3S-eM_Hg

― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 03:22 (fourteen years ago)

willis alan ramsey - ballad of spider john
mississippi john hurt - nobody's dirty business

― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 03:42 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wFwq-6-9ZA

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho! (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 03:55 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz47SXpbYdw

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho! (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 03:57 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViUSiJYs8tQ

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho! (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 03:59 (fourteen years ago)

Robert Earl Keen "The Road Goes On Forever" too.

― 27 Dresses, 13 Assassins (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 04:10 (fourteen years ago)

Subset: outlaw serial killer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVrRkcEzHeU

― 27 Dresses, 13 Assassins (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 04:13 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPu4EguSN-Y

― 27 Dresses, 13 Assassins (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 04:19 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfBc9VldEdE

― brio, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 04:25 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsnUu71Viyo

― brio, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 04:26 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Io_5CEMiI

― brio, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 04:49 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3mj1E8LSU

― freak beats sb it like iron sheik (symsymsym), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 05:33 (fourteen years ago)

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