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Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald?

There was a thread on A'gon about the most perfect song.  We had reasons for picking various, but for me it was Gordong Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Perhaps it featured an aspect of song writing that no one else much cared for:  A deep and detailed story in the song.

So I ask you, A'goners, what songs are as good or better at telling a story of a historical event? 

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Bruce Springsteen's "Highway Patrolman".  The song inspired the movie "The Indian Runner" which had music by Jack Nittzche and David Lindley.

Shangra-las "Leader Of the Pack"

Just my opinion, but "Acadian Driftwood" betters "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".

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"Frankie And Johnny" traditional

"Stagger Lee" traditional

"King Of California" Dave Alvin

"Tangled Up In Blue" Bob Dylan

"Powderfinger" Neil Young

 

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