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.

* Amazing Grace: The story behind the song and its connection to Lough Swilly

* The story of Absalom is referred to several places in folk singer Adam Arcuragi's song " Always Almost Crying.

The song is a sorrowful rendition of the novel's story (" It's gone all quiet on the Western Front / Male Angels sigh / ghosts in a flooded trench / As Germany dies ").

Seated on a sofa, Laura and Carmilla recount the story retrospectively in song.

Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.

( The VHS version of the 1980s, sharing the removal of the Scarecrow's laugh from Terry Gilkyson's title song, was expanded to include the story material from all three TV episodes, while retaining feature film structure and credits ; it was available for a relatively short amount of time.

Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).

Progressive metal band Dream Theater's song " The Dark Eternal Night " is based on Lovecraft's story " Nyarlathotep ".

Different accounts on how " Please, Please, Please " came together vary, one story from Etta James stated that during her first meeting with Brown in Macon, Brown " used to carry around an old tattered napkin with him, because Little Richard had written the words, ' please, please, please ' on it and James was determined to make a song out of it ...".

Another version of the story was that the group had gotten inspiration for writing the song after hearing The Orioles ' rock ' n ' roll version of Big Joe Williams ' hit, " Baby Please Don't Go ", taking its melody from the song.

The song is about George Melly and in particular his story of spontaneously reciting Ursonate, in order to scare off a pair of robbers who confronted him one evening in Manchester.

* The librarian can use the catalogue to find out whether the library owns an item with a particular title or author, or that contains a short story, chapter, song, or poem with a particular title, or to compile a list of books by a particular author or on a particular subject.

If the story is true that troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( about 1150-1207 ) wrote the famous Provençal song Kalenda Maya to fit the tune of an estampie that he heard two jongleurs play, then the history of the estampie extends back to the 12th century.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

There are similarities between the story of The Return of Ringo and the last song of Homer's Odyssey.

In 1988, for the 80th anniversary of the song and the 100th anniversary of the poem Casey at the Bat, Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford constructed a fanciful story ( later expanded to book form as Casey on the Loose ) which posited Katie Casey as being the daughter of the famous slugger from the poem.

The band wrote a McSweeney's theme song and forty-four songs for an album that was meant to be listened to with the journal, with each track corresponding to a particular story or piece of artwork.

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.