It’s Criminal!

[Raynyky]

Many people love reality or fictional crime shows. What songs are about crime? Either committed or thought about. I was surprised when I thought of this just how many there are. 

Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix

 Hey Joe I heard you shot your woman down You shot her down, now

[MaVolta]

Murders In The Rue Morgue - Iron Maiden

[BeatleloverKT]

You’re gonna kill that girl, Ramones

[EricC28201]

Funky Crime - Red Hot Chili Peppers

...A bit of a stretch, but a commentary on how willingness to transcend cultural values applied in a divisive way is often characterized as criminal.

[1968Hoya46]

You Don't Mess Around With Jim:  Jim Croce  (Slim sliced up and shot up Big Jim).

[BeatleloverKT]

Electric chair, Prince

[1968Hoya46]

Big Boy Pete:  The Olympics

[BeatleloverKT]

Pumped up kicks, Foster the People

[postman29]

I Fought The Law- Bobby Fuller Four

[postman29]

The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia- Vicki Lawrence

[MaVolta]

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce

[1968Hoya46]

He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss):  The Crystals  (A song I'm sure Carole King regrets ever co-writing. Domestic violence is "excused and explained")

[BeatleloverKT]

Luka, Suzanne Vega

(Song is about child abuse)

[Raynyky]

Hurricane-Bob Dylan

[BeatleloverKT]

War, Edwin Starr

[MaVolta]

No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature - The Guess Who

He’s got that “bag of goodies”.

[EricC28201]

Vahevala - Loggins & Messina 

(Sailor going AWOL, stealing a keg of beer, getting drunk and raising a rukus)

[1968Hoya46]

Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door: Dylan (Lawman shot and killed by outlaws)

[MaVolta]

Snowblind Friend - Steppenwolf

[1968Hoya46]

House Of The Rising Sun:  Animals  (I'm goin' back to New Orleans/To wear that ball and chain)

[BeatleloverKT]

Let him dangle, Elvis Costello

[EricC28201]

Thela Hun Ginjeet - King Crimson

About a guy getting mugged in the street.  Written shortly after the murder of John Lennon it expressed the paranoia many artists were feeling.

[foxfire1965]

Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi

[1968Hoya46]

Take The Money And Run:  Steve Miller Band

[vjklander]

TIn Pan Alley 

-Stevie Ray Vaughan

[vjklander]

Hey, Hey, What Can I Do

 - Led Zeppelin

[vjklander]

Turn The Page

 - Metallica version.

[1968Hoya46]

Nebraska:  Bruce Springsteen   (10 dead victims)

[BeatleloverKT]

Bankrobber, The Clash

[MaVolta]

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

[1968Hoya46]

Great catch!!