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In reply to the discussion: Does any else remember those gruesome songs from the 1950s-1970s? I don't know why [View all]KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)43. "Town Without Pity" Gene Pitney
I remember it from the drive-in....
"Town Without Pity"
When you're young and so and love as we
And bewildered by the world we see
Why do people hurt us so
Only those in love would know
What a Town Without Pity can do..
If we stop to gaze upon a star
People talk about how bad we are...
Ours is not an easy age
We're like tigers in a cage
What a Town Without Pity can do..
The young have problems Many problems
We need an understanding heart..
Why don't they help us, try to help us
Before this clay and granite planet falls apart...
Take these eager lips and hold me fast..
I'm afraid this kind of joy can't last
How can we keep love alive
How can anything survive
When these little minds tear you in two..
What a town Without Pity can do..
How can we keep love alive
How can anything survive
When these little minds tear you in two..
What a town Without Pity can do..
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Does any else remember those gruesome songs from the 1950s-1970s? I don't know why [View all]
japple
Jun 2019
OP
In 1960 in Catholic school our nun let us bring records to play on Fridays. One song was about a guy
wasupaloopa
Jun 2019
#3
I think it was because we thought we were going to burn up in a mushroom cloud any day,
wasupaloopa
Jun 2019
#9
One of my favorite Byrds songs! I thought this 80's Ultravox song about a nuclear
50 Shades Of Blue
Jun 2019
#26
One of those songs I had to jump up to replay it several times. Like song you posted.
Hoyt
Jun 2019
#33
This is from 2000, so it doesn't quite meet the criterion, but here it is anyway.
cos dem
Jun 2019
#16
"Billy and Sue" by BJ Thomas and the Dakotas, and "The Wreck on the Highway" by The Louvin Bros.
NBachers
Jun 2019
#38
What's that song where she keeps wailing "Let it please be him, oh dear lord it must be him..."
Grasswire2
Jun 2019
#42