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A first person narrative about a fatal car crash the night before the victims' high school graduation. "Deacon Blues" Steely Dan: 1977 "Drink scotch whisky all night long and die behind the wheel" "Dead on the Highway" Sons of the Never Wrong: 1995: First person narrative from the person killed in a car crash. "Dead Man's Curve" Jan and Dean: 1964
A teenage tragedy song is a style of sentimental ballad in popular music that peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lamenting teenage death scenarios in melodramatic fashion, these songs were variously sung from the viewpoint of the dead person's romantic interest, another witness to the tragedy, or the dead or dying person.
"Who You'd Be Today" is a song to a person who died before their time ("It ain't fair, you died too young / Like a story that had just begun / But death tore the pages all away"). The narrator describes how much he has missed that person and questions what their life would be like if they were still alive ("Sometimes, I wonder who you'd be today").
H. Hallowed Be Thy Name (song) Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire; Hazard (song) He Stopped Loving Her Today (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River; The Hearse Song
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death.
It is explicitly about the disappearance of the man, and this in a vocabulary that does not come from a departure lounge, but from a death chamber: dry bodies, drooling words, grief, tears, a scream, a restless hand like a last outburst of life. In all of this is the description of a death struggle, the last breaths of a dying person.
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The Sinatra family announced Frank's death on May 14, 1998, by placing an announcement on their website that was accompanied by a recording of the singer's version of the song. [citation needed] The Fleetwoods on their 1964 album Before and After. John Gary released a version on his 1967 album John Gary at Carnegie Hall.