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]

I’m On The Lamb But I Ain’t No Sheep - BOC

https://youtu.be/A8s02HCUqHo

We don’t know what he’s done, but he’s running from the Canadian Mounted Police, and they get their man in the end. A different take sharing some of the same lyrics . . .

The Red And The Black - BOC

https://youtu.be/zIawk-9PApw

[BeatleloverKT]

Hell is for children, Pat Benetar 

[EricC28201]

White Collar Fraud - Street Dogs

[BeatleloverKT]

Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2

[1968Hoya46]

Arthur McBride:  Dylan; others  (an old Irish folk song, plenty of violence).

[MaVolta]

Fighting Man - Gillan

In his hand

Is a gun that says he doesn’t need a reason

And there’s no one gonna take away the freedom

In his hand

He’s a bad mistake

Got no heart to hate

Gotta mind that can

He’s a fighters fighting man

[EricC28201]

Breaking the Rules - AC/DC

[Raynyky]

Ticking-Elton John 

[BeatleloverKT]

Abraham, Martin and John, Dion

[1968Hoya46]

Blue Suede Shoes:  Carl Perkins (You can burn my house, steal my car, drink my liquor from an old fruit jar......)

[BeatleloverKT]

Amos Moses, Jerry Reed

[EricC28201]

Beware! Criminal - Incubus

[BeatleloverKT]

Peacekeeper, The Mac

[MaVolta]

Then Came The Last Days Of May - BOC

Lyrics:

https://blueoystercult.fandom.com/wiki/Then_Came_the_Last_Days_of_May

From the link:

”It’s lyrics are inspired by three students from Stoney Brook University who traveled south for a drug deal and were shot.”

[EricC28201]

Sign In Stranger - Steely Dan

[MaVolta]

Street Fighting Man - The Stones

[EricC28201]

Have Mercy On The Criminal - Elton John

[BeatleloverKT]

Ride the lightning, Metallica

[MaVolta]

You Were On My Mind - We Five

He went to the corner to meet his junkie and buy drugs to ease his pain.

[BeatleloverKT]

For whom the bell tolls, Metallica

[EricC28201]

Turn That Heartbeat Over Again - Steely Dan

[Raynyky]

Miriam-Norah Jones

[MaVolta]

Gypsies, Tramps, And Thieves - Cher

[BeatleloverKT]

The ballad of Danny Bailey, Sir Elton

[MaVolta]

In The Ghetto - Elvis

[BeatleloverKT]

No body, no crime, Taylor Swift

[Raynyky]

Oh Darlin’ What Have I Done-White Buffalo 

[1968Hoya46]

Last Night:  Traveling Wilburys    (I asked her to marry me/She smiled and pulled out a knife/The party's just beginning she said/Your money or your life)

[MaVolta]

Pancho And Lefty - Townes Van Zandt, covered by Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard 

[BeatleloverKT]

Killer Queen, Queen