The album ’ s title song was inspired by Jack Kerouac ’ s book, The Lonesome Traveller in which Kerouac tells the story of America ’ s “ homeless brothers ,” or hobos.

In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i. e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.

The song tells the story about the Passenger Pigeon's extinction and Martha's life in her cage in Cincinnati Zoo.

* Shel Silverstein's song, " The Wonderful Soup Stone " tells a version of this story.

Fort Minor's song " Kenji ", from the album The Rising Tied ( 2005 ), tells the true story of Mike Shinoda's family and their experiences before, during, and after World War II, including their imprisonment at Manzanar.

About halfway through the song, Simon tells the band to stop playing because of his embarrassment.

Deep Purple's famous song " Smoke on the Water " tells of the events of 1971, when a Frank Zappa fan with a flare gun set the Montreux Casino on fire.

* The song " The Third Temptation of Paris " by Alesana tells the story of Helen and Paris from the viewpoint of Paris.

* Blind Guardian's song " The Curse of Feanor ", featured on the album Nightfall in Middle Earth, tells of Fëanor swearing to go after Morgoth.

* Circa 1948, Stan Jones transposed the Wild Hunt into a country song " Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend " which tells the story to a group of cowboys who chase the devil's herd of cattle through the night skies, tormented by madness and thirst.

Aunt Lucy tells him he has to find Orville, and recommends singing Orville's favorite song.

The song tells of disappointment, as the lyrics, " Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky ", show someone pining for her man to return.

The song tells a true story of an adolescent acquaintance of composer Frank Zappa who habitually saved his own extracted mucus on the pane of his bedroom window.

He wrote " The Father of a Boy Named Sue ", in which he tells the story from the original song from the father's point of view, and the 1962 song " Boa Constrictor ", sung by a man who is being swallowed by a snake ( recorded by the folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary ) although it is now better known as a children's playground chant.

In their next gig, in an amphitheater at an amusement park ( second-billed behind a puppet show ), David tells the sparse crowd that they're witnessing a new birth, having renamed the band ' Spinal Tap Mark 2 ' as he and the remaining members are forced to perform a fusion-esque, experimental song entitled, ' Jazz Odyssey ' due to the lack of Tufnel's presence and material.

The Ramayana has inspired works of film as well, most prominently the North American Sita Sings the Blues, which tells the story supporting Sita through song.

* Let's " Hear " it For Robin Hood ( 1974 )- Disneyland Records release, Prima tells the story of Robin Hood through spoken word and song.

The song tells the tale of a disconsolate singer with woman troubles and includes the lines:

The The Residents ' song " Death in Barstow ," tells the story of two friends who visit and fall asleep in Barstow.

The walk took its name from the Lyke Wake Dirge, probably Yorkshire's oldest dialect verse, which takes its name from the watching wake over the corpse ( lyke ) The song tells of the soul's passage through the afterlife.

Cross Canadian Ragweed's song " 42 Miles ", off their album Highway 377, tells the story of the band's breaking down in Groom, Texas, and interacting with Keith Barkley at Keith's Auto in Groom.

The two entertainers offer to perform the song of The Merryman and his Maid: it tells of a lovelorn merryman who is jilted by a maiden in favour of an arrogant lord, but the latter rejects her, and she returns on her knees to the merryman to beg for his love, and all ends happily.

The song was originally written and performed in the style of a Jamaican ballad ; and tells, in simple verse-chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lady love.

" The song tells the story of the FBI investigation and relates it with song lyrics by Marilyn Manson and Eminem which some blamed for the Columbine High School massacre.

The lyrics of this song are written from the point of view of a woman, recently dumped, telling her former lover that she can cope without him and does not want anything more to do with him.

Henry, who was a great lover of the instrument, frequently said that " this instrument made him remember the song of the birds ".

* Alba ( morning song )— the song of a lover as dawn approaches, often with a watchman warning of the approach of a lady's jealous husband

* Comiat — a song renouncing a lover

* Serena — the song of a lover waiting impatiently for the evening ( to consummate his love )

The identity of the singer is unknown, but it is clear that her song is a lament for a lover lost at sea.

Ovid and other writers have claimed ( either fancifully or mistakenly ) that the etymology of her name was " lover of song " derived from the Greek and instead of ).

In Seán Ó Seanacháin's song An Buachaill Caol Dubh, Aoibheal appears to a young couple and offers the man a hundred Fairy servants if he will renounce his mortal lover in exchange for the bed of Aoibheal herself.

The song is, essentially, about lust and its tremendous power over the singer, who is incapable of resisting his ( perhaps former ) lover.

In 2010, the Scottish folk band Washington Irving released a song titled " Sisi " on their debut EP Little Wanderer, Head Thee Home, which describes some of the major incidents in Elisabeth's life from the perspective of a jealous lover.

" Written by Burke and his then wife, Delores Burke, and John " J. B ." Moore, " a vengeful song about getting past someone who has found a new lover, and ... inspired by Burke's marital strife ", it " features his smooth, solid voice lamenting the death of a love affair ", " Got to Get You Off My Mind " was started on 11 December 1964, just hours after Burke heard that his friend Sam Cooke had been murdered, just after Burke ate with him in a Los Angeles restaurant, and on the same day his third wife, Delores, the mother then of 11 of his children, informed him by mail that she wanted a divorce.

The Bo Diddley song " Who Do You Love " contains an extensive series of puns about a man hoodooing his lover.

Exultant, joyful singing ( the song " Georgy Girl ") proclaims that all is well now: " who needs a perfect lover when you're a mother at heart ... better try to tell yourself that you've got your way ... now you've got a future planned for you ... at least he's a millionaire ... you're rich, Georgy Girl.

Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.

The song was dedicated to his former lover, Brazilian Anselmo Feleppa ( who died in 1993 ).

The song " Rilkean Heart " is a homage to Jeff Buckley, who was a lifelong lover of the work of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

The subject of the song is the point of view of an automobile driver who drives to his lover (" baby ") and communicates with her without physical means like telephone or letters.

The song tells of a lover courting the object of his affections, Mary Jane, on Ilkley Moor without a hat ( baht ' at ).

This is a love song of a dancing girl from Miryang who was left behind by her lover from Seoul ( Hanyang ).

The Italian songwriter Francesco Guccini has composed a song, dedicated to the memory of his father, who was a lover of van Loon's works when he was young.

Thematically, as its name implies, it was a song of courtly love, written usually by a man to his noble lover.

Karel Gott, a popular male singer, recorded a song portraying a conversation between a casual lover and his sweetheart that was banned from radio and television.

Other celebrities have been rumored to be the lover in the song, including: Bob Saget, Coulier's co-star on Full House ; Mike Peluso, hockey player for the New Jersey Devils and previously for the Ottawa Senators in 1992 – 93 ; Matt LeBlanc, the actor who appeared in the video for Morissette's single " Walk Away " in 1991 ;, and Leslie Howe, a musician and the producer of Morissette's first two albums in the early 1990s.