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