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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? 

erik_squires
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larsman
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@larryi - 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' was by the Skids, no? 

rpeluso
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Joni Mitchell, Magdalene Laundries

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tunehead
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Seeing we are on the subject of "great Canadian stories" (so it seems), Id give a shout out to The Tragically Hips "Wheat Kings" about wrongly prisoned David Milgaard.

Also "38 Years old" about a justly prisoned Michael.

And "50 Mission Cap", and , well , "New Orleans is sinking" (more profetic telling as it was before Hurricane Katrina".

(Edit: can’t really say better than the Wreck of Edmond Fitzgerald thought, that's a perfect song).

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jeffstrick
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Buffalo Soldiers by Barb Marley.

robert53
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Good post. Gret Gordon Lightfoot song. He is a great song writer and storyteller. 

Harry Chapin was pretty good too. 

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