Gloomy Sunday
(Billie Holliday)

Sunday is gloomy,
my hours are slumberless.

Dearest the shadows
I live with numberless.

Little white flowers
will never awaken you.

Not where the black coach
of sorrow has taken you.

Gloomy Sunday

Give Us Your Blessings - The Shangri-las

Run, run, run,
Mary, run, run, run,
Jimmy, run, run, run,
Mary, run, run, run,

Mary and Jimmy were both very young
But as much in love
As two people could be
And all they wanted
Was to share that love eternally

They went to their folks they told them
That someday soon they'd be wed
Their folks just laughed
And called them kids
So Mary said

Give us your blessing
Please don't make us Run away
Give us your blessing
Say you'll be there on our wedding day

They wouldn't have laughed at Mary
If they could have seen through the door
But Jimmy was waiting in the car
While Mary begged once more

Give us your blessing
Please don't make us Run away
Give us your blessing
Say you'll be there on our wedding day

Well as they drove off they were crying
And nobody knows for sure
That, that's why they didn't see the sign
That read detour

The next day they found them
Mary and Jimmy were dead
And as their folks
Knelt beside them in the rain
They couldn't help but hear
The last words that Mary and Jimmy had said

Give us your blessing
Please don't make us Run away
Give us your blessing
Say you'll be there on our wedding day

Run, run, run,
Mary, run, run, run,
Jimmy, run, run, run,
Mary, run, run, run,

Goodbye Earl - by Dixie Chicks 

Mary anne and wanda were the best of friends
All through their high school days
Both members of the 4h club
Both active in the ffa
After graduation mary anne went out lookin'
For a bright new world
Wanda looked all around this town
And all she found was earl

Well it wasn't two weeks
After she got married that
Wanda started gettin' abused
She put on dark glasses and long sleeved blouses
And make-up to cover a bruise
Well she finally got the nerve to file for divorce
She let the law take it from there
But earl walked right through that restraining order
And put her in intensive care

Right away mary anne flew in from Atlanta
On a red eye midnight flight
She held wanda's hand as they
Worked out a plan
And it didn't take long to decided

That earl had to die
Goodbye earl
Those black-eyed peas
They tasted all right to me earl
You're feeling weak
Why don't you lay down
And sleep earl
Ain't it dark
Wrapped up in that tarp earl

The cops came to bring earl in
They searched the house
High and low
Then they tipped their hats
And said 'thank you ladies
If you hear from him let us know'

Well the weeks went by and
Spring turned to summer
And summer faded into fall
And it turns out he was a missing person
Who nobody missed al all

So the girls bought some land
And a roadside stand
Out on highway 109
They sell tennessee ham
And strawberry jame
And they don't
Lose any sleep at night 'cause

Earl had to die
Goodbye earl
We need a break
Let's go out to the lake earl
We'll pack a lunch
And stuff you in the trunk earl
Well is that all right
Good let's go for a ride
Earl hey

R. Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane

Red light, green light,
speedin' trough the dark night,
drivin' trough the poundin' rain
I gotta see Jane
Windshield wiper splashin',
splashin', callin' out her name
Just gotta see Jane
I left her arms to find my way
To find a place for me in the world outside
I wasn't alive, I could not survive
The frantic pace, the constant chase
to win the race, turned my heart cold inside
I gotta find what I left behind
Red light, green light,
speedin' through the dark night,
drivin' through the poundin' rain,
I gotta see Jane
Freeway, byway,
tearin' up the highway,
runnin' up a world insane
Just gotta see Jane
A town of steel that isn't real
it could not feel what's in the heart of me
I was so alone in a world of stone
I missed her arms, that once held me
that made me see, I was the lonely one
But now and then I was runnin' scared
and I could feel the touch of time
Turnin' the wheel of life to yesterday
When love and happiness were mine
I gotta find that world of Jane and me
Liked it used to be
Oh, I gotta see Jane
Her love for me I pushed aside
walked out alone
to face a world turned cold
Although I tried I could not survive
The frantic pace, the constant chase
to win the race, it's not a part of me
I've gotta find what I left behind
Oh, I gotta see Jane, I gotta see Jane 

Days Of Graduation - by Drive-By Truckers 

Bobby went out for a joy ride with my best girl
Left me at the party,
He was my best friend and I miss him.
It was almost June and the ¾ moon illuminated the rain-soaked streets like a candy wrapper.
I guess that's why Bobby had his lights off,
Tear-assing threw the back part of town and those deserted country roads where me and Bobby tear-assed so many times before.
Sometimes with my best girl and sometimes Bobby had him one too.

But this night he banked that curve just a little too hard and that 442 went airborne,
Hit a telephone pole and split in two, Bobby's skull was split right in two,
And my girl was pinned in her seat, partially embedded in the dashboard
And for the next twenty minutes the only sound in the night were her screams.
And the sound of the wheel still spinning.

In a little while the ambulance came and the sound of its siren mixed with the screaming girl and the spinning wheel.

But when the story was told the next day at the graduation ceremony,
Everyone said that when the ambulance came
The paramedics could hear "Free Bird" still playing on the stereo.

You know it's a very long song

Tony Casanova - The Grave

Why did the lord up above
Have to take the one I love?
I never thought I'd see the day
I'd see her face, down in the grave

Now she's dead, my future wife
Now I'll be lonely for the rest of my life
I never thought I'd see the day
I'd see her face, down in the grave

Maybe if I pray
Every day
Lord can't you see
She was meant for me

If that's the way you want it to be
That's the way it has to be
I never thought I'd see the day
I'd see her face, down in the grave

Maybe if I pray
Every day
Lord can't you see
She was meant for me

If that's the way you want it to be
That's the way it has to be
I never thought I'd see the day
I'd see her face, down in the grave