The first thing that came to mind is "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron", but that probably falls rather squarely under the heading of novelty song.
"Yellow Submarine"? Actually, come to think of it, the Beatles have a few of these. On the general topic of the 1960s, there's also "Pinball Wizard", though that one's also kind of on the novelty song end of things. (Or ... about half the songs The Who ever wrote, come to think of it. "Boris the Spider"? "Happy Jack"? Maybe it's just something about the 1960s.)
"Copperhead Road" (Steve Earle) is about bootleggers.
When I was a teenager, I had an album by Fred Small, a little-known folk singer/protest singer, whose songs are basically ALL this. "Heart of the Appaloosa" - the last stand of the Navajo. "Talking Wheelchair Blues" - woman in a wheelchair is repeatedly ignored/dismissed by servers in a restaurant. "Larry the Polar Bear" - filmmaker takes a zoo-raised bear to the remote coast of Alaska to film a movie, but things really don't go as he'd hoped. And so forth.
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"Yellow Submarine"? Actually, come to think of it, the Beatles have a few of these. On the general topic of the 1960s, there's also "Pinball Wizard", though that one's also kind of on the novelty song end of things. (Or ... about half the songs The Who ever wrote, come to think of it. "Boris the Spider"? "Happy Jack"? Maybe it's just something about the 1960s.)
"Copperhead Road" (Steve Earle) is about bootleggers.
When I was a teenager, I had an album by Fred Small, a little-known folk singer/protest singer, whose songs are basically ALL this. "Heart of the Appaloosa" - the last stand of the Navajo. "Talking Wheelchair Blues" - woman in a wheelchair is repeatedly ignored/dismissed by servers in a restaurant. "Larry the Polar Bear" - filmmaker takes a zoo-raised bear to the remote coast of Alaska to film a movie, but things really don't go as he'd hoped. And so forth.