User:DanTD/songs/List of songs about criminals

This is a list of songs about crime and criminals. This can include selling drugs but drug-taking is in another category.

0–9

• "18 and Life" by Skid Row

A

• "A Criminal Mind" by Lawrence Gowan
• "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Sufjan Stevens
• "A New Hope" by Five Iron Frenzy about the Columbine High School Massacre
• "A Pirate's Prayer" by Zao
• "Alabamba Motel Room" by Matthew Good Band
• "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan
• "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers
• "American Psycho" by Treble Charger
• "Andy's Doin' Time" by Bleach
• "Another Hit and Run" by Def Leppard
• "Arnold Layne" by Pink Floyd
• "Ass Like That" by Eminem

B

• "Bad Boys For Life" by P.Diddy
• "Bad Influence" by Eminem
• "Bad To the Bone" by George Thorogood
• "Bad, Bad Man" by John Cena
• "Bad Place Alone" by Alice Cooper
• "Bad Reputation" by Luke Haines, about child abuser Gary Glitter
• "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" by Georgie Fame and His Blue Flames
• "Bankrobber/Robber Dub" by The Clash
• "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction
• "Bein' Bad" by BoomKat
• "Beheaded" by The Offspring
• "Billy's Got a Gun" by Def Leppard
• "Bonnie and Clyde '03" by Jay-Z and Beyoncé

C

• "Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke
• "Cop Killer" by Body Count
• "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle
• "Criminal" by Eminem

F

• "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash

G

• "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" by The Adverts

H

• "Hardin Wouldn't Run" by Johnny Cash
• "Highway 29" by Bruce Springsteen
• "Highwayman" by The Highwaymen

I

• "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats
• "I Fought the Law" by Bobby Fuller Four and The Clash
• "I Like Robbin' Banks" by David Allan Coe
• "I Shot the Sheriff" by Bob Marley and the Wailers
• "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor
• "I've Got to Get a Message to You" by the Bee Gees

J

• "Jailbreak" by AC/DC
• "Jailbreak" by Thin Lizzy
• "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley
• "Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith
• "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" by The Killers
• "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." by Sufjan Stevens
• "John Wesley Harding" by Bob Dylan

K

• "Killer" by Alice Cooper

L

• "Little Criminals" by Randy Newman

M

• "Mack the Knife", composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for The Threepenny Opera, popularized by Bobby Darin
• "Midnight" by The Monkees
• "Midnight Rambler" by The Rolling Stones
• "Mister Manson" by Klaatu
• "My Own Prison" by Creed

N

• "New Jack Swing" by Living Colour
• "No Thugs in Our House" by XTC

O

• "Over the Hills and Far Away" by Gary Moore

P

• "Pancho and Lefty", written by Townes Van Zandt
• "Police On My Back" by Eddy Grant, covered by the Clash
• "Potter's Field" by Tom Waits
• "Pretty Boy Floyd" by Woody Guthrie

S

• "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson
• "Stagger Lee" (traditional)

T

• "The Fields of Athenry" by Pete St. John
• "The Green, Green Grass of Home" by Tom Jones
• "The Illinois Enema Bandit" by Frank Zappa
• "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" by Morrissey
• "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by Gene Pitney
• "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace
• "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence
• "Long Black Veil" by Lefty Frizzell
• "There Goes a Tenner" by Kate Bush
• "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree" by Tony Orlando and Dawn
• "Tom Dooley", American folk song, popularized by The Kingston Trio
• "Take the Money and Run" by The Steve Miller Band

W

• "Waltzing Matilda", Australian traditional folk song
• "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." by Simon and Garfunkel
• "Whiskey in the Jar", Irish traditional folk song

Y

• "You Know what they do to Guys Like us in Prison" by My Chemical Romance
• "Youth Nabbed as Sniper" by Blondie

See also

• Murder ballad