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The song begins with the protagonist being arrested for speeding while standing on red at traffic lights. He spends the night in a jail cell, being served hot bologna, eggs and gravy and, during his prolonged stay, becomes interested in the jailer's wife.
The title of the song was originally "Sex Offender". Bassist Gary Valentine originally wrote the song about an 18-year-old boy being arrested for having sex with his younger girlfriend. Debbie Harry changed the lyrics so that the song was about a prostitute being attracted to the police officer that had arrested her.
Pages in category "Songs about crime" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 18 and Life;
The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul and Silas were in Philippi (a former city in present-day Greece), where they were arrested, flogged, and imprisoned for causing a public nuisance. The song relates what happened next, as recorded in Acts 16:25-31:
"The Deck of Cards" is a recitation song that was popularized in the fields of both country and popular music, first during the late 1940s.This song, which relates the tale of a young American soldier arrested and charged with playing cards during a church service, first became a hit in the U.S. in 1948 by country musician T. Texas Tyler.
Pages in category "Songs about prison" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1st Day Out tha ...
Pages in category "Songs about criminals" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Al Capone (song)
"The Best of All Possible Worlds" was inspired by Kristofferson's experience of being arrested. In the song, he observes police officers' mistreatment of black people and the poor, and references Voltaire's novella Candide, [18] in which Voltaire satirized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's claim of the "best of all possible worlds". [19]