Best story in a song recorded by EP

[KiwiAlan]

Old Shep!

[ColinB]

This Is The Story and also Do You Know Who I Am

Good choices !

This Is The Story is particularly apt, for personal reasons.

[Steve Morse]

Any candidate song needs to have, "a beginning, a middle and an end", even if the end is indefinite or unresolved.

Steve Morse

[BigredG]

This Is The Story is particularly apt, for personal reasons.

You have a favourite chair too??

[Juan Luis]

Inherit The Wind and It's Easy For You.

[DarrylMac]

How about I Washed My Hand In Muddy Water? That has a great story to it, and is a great song too!

Frankie and Johnny too tells a great story, is one of my favourite movies, if only for the presence of the stunning Nellie Blye!!!!

[likethebike]

This brings into question I guess what is a story song. Some of the songs chosen here seem to be monologues- "Walk a Mile in My Shoes", "Do You Know Who I Am"- or descriptive commentaries- "He's Your Uncle Not Your Dad"- rather than narratives.

One of the things that makes "Kentucky Rain" such a powerful narrative is that the ending is left open.

[Guest]

More a foreboding than a story, but still ...

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell

Refrain

Though death and darkness gather all about me
My ship be torn apart upon the seas
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
And should I return home safe again to England
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dale

Refrain

Quite a few of Elvis' 75-76 songs deal with death (Last Farewell, Danny Boy, Green Green Grass Of Home, also Pieces Of My Life can be interpreted in that direction).

Edit: Come to think of it, the earlier My Way and Long Black Limousine, too.

[Denman]

Frankie and Johnny too tells a great story, is one of my favourite movies, if only for the presence of the stunning Nellie Blye!!!!

Funny, F & J is my least favorite Elvis movie, at least from the ones I've seen.

[ColinB]

This Is The Story is particularly apt, for personal reasons.

You have a favourite chair too??

I had to think about that one !

Yes, but no open fire............

BTW - In my case, I won the fair maid back - but 7 years later she was off again.............. for good this time.

[ColinB]

Of course there's the little known prequel "Young Shep". Not many have heard this one.

Just before I was born my dad had a dog,
One day it gave birth on the step,
He drowned the whole bunch 'cept for one little runt,
He kept him and called him Young Shep.

You know the rest.

Come along now, John, time for your nap.

[JM]

"How Great Thou Art".
Elvis loved to sing spirituals because they told a story.

[Cryogenic]

Some of my favourites that have been mentioned:

- "Trying To Get To You"
- "In The Ghetto"
- "Kentucky Rain"
- "Twenty Days And Twenty Nights"
- "Green, Green Grass Of Home"

Some of my favourites that haven't been mentioned:

- "Without Love"
- "Love Me, Love The Life I Lead"
- "An American Trilogy"
- "It's Over"
- "Padre"
- "Promised Land"

[2Elvis]

"Life"

[Ciscoking]

Always On My Mind
Only The Strong Survive
Take Good Care Of Her

[Narek]

Mine is definitely long Black Limo

[Harty]

There is only one song with the best storyline:

SONG OF THE SHRIMP

[BigredG]

There is only one song with the best storyline:

SONG OF THE SHRIMP

Mate, that is one sad story. Brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it (which is about once every decade!!)