Stories

Songs that talk about a story, stories, tales, etc.

Central theme

• All Alone
• Anecdote
• Brontosaurus
• Butcher's Tale
• Let Me Tell You About My Operation
• Long White Beard - "I have such a tale for you"
• Mario Speaks
• Pirate Girls Nine - "Listen children, hear this story"
• The Share A Story Song
• Snapping Turtle
• Trucker's Coffee
• The Velvet Ape

Briefly mentioned

• Aaa - "Is there any truth to the story that I heard from this guy?"
• Alphabet Lost And Found - "These stories must be told"
• Birdhouse In Your Soul - "My story's infinite"
• Certain People I Could Name - "Here's the story on the genocidal overlord"
• Cloisonné - "Tell 'em the story, rain drop"
• Dunkin Of Course Of Course - "Don't know the story, know the truth"
• Flansy Stays In The Picture - "To get the story wrong"
• Free Bird's Rebirth - "To a story so sad"
• I Blame You - "There's a story that's true"
• I Know What I Saw - "My friends, my neighbors, come hear my strange tale"
• I Love You For Psychological Reasons - "The dream is a fable with feeble wings"
• It's Kickin' In - "When it's boring and the story's so old"
• John Lee Supertaster - "When I was 39 years old I heard a story ... and this is his true story"
• Metal Detector - "Every seashell has a story to tell if you're listening / but underneath every shell there's a story as well if you've heard enough of the sea"
• Out Of Jail - "Say who's the man in this cautionary tale"
• Plain As The Lie On Your Lips - "Bedtime stories never helped me sleep", "And before your story's done I've learned another one"
• Science Is Real - "I like the stories about angels, unicorns and elves [...] but [...] the facts are with science"
• The Summer Breeze - "The story of an automobile"
• Triops Has Three Eyes - "There are two sides to every story"

Honorable mention

• Bed, Bed, Bed (Book)
• Kids Go!
• The Here Comes Science DVD intros for How Many Planets? and Roy G. Biv feature older Science Johns; John Flansburgh is asking John Linnell to "tell us another story"

See also

• Reading