Favorite songs I was raised on

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Johnny Cash originally recorded this Karl Silbersdorf and Dick Toops penned murder ballad for his 1962 The Sound of Johnny Cash album.
Rick Rubin and Johnny Cash later reworked the song and this was the version that they liked.

 

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This song is about a man that used to save his money in jars and bury it. One day, three greedy brothers decided to kill him and steal his money, but when they tried to get away, they got caught in quicksand and died as well. Fifty years later, if you go back in the swamp by the shack where he used to live, you can hear the screaming of three young men and the laughing of one old man.

 

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I still remember this one.



A tale of a hitchhiker who hops a ride from a trucker who turns out to be the ghost of a man who died years ago giving his life to save a school bus full of children from a horrible collision with his rig.

 

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Mary was coming home from a party and lost her life in a car accident. She died at the Jamestown bridge. Since her death she has been trying to get home by hitchhiking. Someone will pick her up and try to take her home. By the time they get to the destination. Mary is gone.

 

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This song tells about a man who buys a used '66 Corvette and finds it comes with a ghostly soldier named Private Malone. One rainy night, while driving too fast, he misses the curb and crashes the car. Witnesses to the crash say they saw a soldier pulling him out of the car.

 

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First recorded by country act Shenandoah, the heart-wrenching ballad was also covered by both Alison Krauss and the Dixie Chicks. In this story, the narrator plays the ghost who watches over a house, but doesn't upkeep it. Although it appears the ghost is suffering from a breakup and loneliness, he reveals that there actually is another ghost with him in the house.

 

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The disturbing part of Bobby Bare‘s 1974 hit song is that it was loosely based on a true story and Marie Laveau was a real person. While Bare sings about an ugly witch who hides in the swampy bayou of Louisiana, the real Laveau was a practitioner of voodoo in the French Quarter – and often described as a powerful entrepreneur.

 

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Hey Sis, I did not realize that there was sooooooooooooo many Halloween type theme songs and I haven't even began to search

 

[WannaDig3687]

And another Country song with a Halloween type theme



"I wrote 'This Haunted House' for Patsy. Right after she died I was over at Patsy's house to see the kids and her husband, Charlie Dick. While my husband was talking to hers, I sat on the steps where she had her playroom, her bar. It was the recreation room where they had all their parties. I sat on the steps and wrote this song. I wrote it in about 20 minutes, with my guitar, and I went and played it for Charlie. I was going to ask him what he thought of it, but he had tears rolling down his face. He said, 'It's beautiful.' I said 'I wrote this for you.' Two nights later, I recorded it." ~ Loretta Lynn

That's pretty cool. 20 minutes is all it took? That's amazing. I have tried to write a song about 30 years ago. Still working on it.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Alan Jackson sings about visiting Hank Williams Sr. headstone amid a graveyard site when Williams's spirit appears wearing a cowboy hat and shiny boots.

Pretty cool tribute song. Reminded me of something. I gotta share it on the RCT.

 

[WannaDig3687]

This song is about a man that used to save his money in jars and bury it. One day, three greedy brothers decided to kill him and steal his money, but when they tried to get away, they got caught in quicksand and died as well. Fifty years later, if you go back in the swamp by the shack where he used to live, you can hear the screaming of three young men and the laughing of one old man.

I wonder if CD's original inspiration for this song was the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors from the Bible?

 

[WannaDig3687]

That's a sad song.

Most children go through a phase where they are afraid of the dark, but they grow out of it. Estimated 11% of the adult US population have nyctophobia.

 

[WannaDig3687]

LOL! I have totally forgotten about this song!