Songs Where the Girl Dies

Starting off with "Oh My Darling, Clementine".

Clementine falls into the river and drowns while her boyfriend is unable to save her, due to not being able to swim.

What else? Please post examples and lyrics and/or descriptions of the death if possible.

 

"Used To Love Her" by Guns N' Roses.

 

This thread might be more fun if it was about where the girl gets some.

Honey. Bobby Goldsboro.

 

"Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro

 

Oh Woman Oh Why?? - Paul McCartney

 

Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue: 'Where the wild roses grow'

As Cave, as killer, is singing in that song 'all beauty must die'. And so does Elisa Day.
The song is from Cave's album 'Murder Ballads', so many more characters will find there, euh,... a tragic end.

 

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

 

"I Want My Baby Back" by Jimmy Cross... still the best...

 

Austin Roberts - Rocky

 

Any number of Cannibal Corpse songs.

 

Patches by Dickey Lee
Run Joey Run by David Geddes
Last Kiss J Frank Wilson

 

Turn of the Century - Yes ("deep her illness ... in the still light of dawn, she dies")

Paint It Black - Stones

 

Omie Wise, Pretty Polly, Maxwell's Silver Hammer

 

'Mom and Dad' by the Mothers of Invention. An eerie presage of Kent State and CSNY's 'Ohio'

Your child was killed in the park today
Shot by the cops as she quietly lay.
By the side of the creeps she knew
They killed her too.

 

Tom Petty's "American Girl"

 

Teen Angel

 

Cher's "Train Of Thought"

 

Oh, Lord. If we head into folk music we'll be here for weeks

 

Well, according to Wikipedia, Clementine's sister got some...

 

How I missed her, how I missed her
How I missed my Clementine
So I kissed her little sister
And forgot my Clementine

 

“Hey Joe” - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hey Joe, I heard you shot your mamma down
You shot her down now
Hey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down
You shot her down in the ground yeah!
(Joe's mamma got some)


"Down by the River” – Neil Young
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.

 

If been doing folk for almost 30 years. Its almost like every other song. Even going back to the broadsides and olde ballads. Banks Of The Ohio was the first song I learned on the guitar.