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Akin ja Turon kappaleessa Jori 16 vuotta viaton opettaja kuolee ja halvaantuu samanaikaisesti Jorin toilailun takia.

Kyllähän ne synkkimät sanotukset on Helismaan kirjoittamat sanat vanhaan kansanlauluun. Lopputulos tuli tunnetuksi Tapio Rautavaaran laulamana nimellä Peltoniemen Hintriikan surumarssi.
 
On suo, pitkospuut.
Tienä on vain pitkospuut
Ja ne vie luokse töllin harmaan,
Töllin huolen harmaan.
 
Pois on asukas, autioituu
Pirtti ja seinät sammaloituu.
Pois veivät Peltoniemen Hintriikan.
 
Hän sai köyhyyden,
Osakseen sai köyhyyden.
Vierahaks joskus hallan varmaan,
Joskus hallan varmaan
 
Nyt on huoli pois, lopun saivat
Puute ja huolet, maiset vaivat.
Pois veivät Peltoniemen Hintriikan.
 
Ja onni ihmeellinen vasta
Onhan Hintriikasta
Päästä jälleen kuulemaan,
Miten veisataan.
Niin harvoin tänne tuolta
Hallaiselta suolta
Köyhä joutaa lähtemään
Leipäkiireiltään.
Toi äiti pienen Hintriikkansa kerran
Kastejuhlaan Herran
 
Jäi jo kauas taa aika leikin.
Nuorena kirkkoon sitten veikin
Mies, rakas Peltoniemen Hintriikan.
 
Ei elä onni hallasuolla.
Siellä kukka kuolla
Tahtoo ennen aikojaan,
Kesken nuoruuttaan.
Niin myöskin päivä koitti,
Jolloin kellot soitti
Puolisolle Hintriikan
Hetken muutaman.
Sai kohtalokseen suon ja töllin harmaan,
Töllin huolen harmaan.
 
Pois on asukas, autioituu
Pirtti ja seinät sammaloituu.
Pois veivät Peltoniemen Hintriikan.
 
Tietty muitahan Tapsalta on Huutolaispojan laulu ja niin edelleen.

Kasaripitkätukka Richard Marxin 'Hazard' on yks traagisimmista.
 
My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven
Even then the folks in town said with prejudiced eyes:
"That boy's not right"
Three years ago when I came to know Mary
First time that someone looked beyond the rumors and the lies
And saw the man inside
 
We used to walk down by the river
She loved to watch the sun go down
We used to walk along the river
And dream our way out of this town
 
No one understood what I felt for Mary
No one cared until the night she went out walking alone
And never came home
Man with a badge came knocking next morning
Here was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly
Pointed right at me
 
I swear I left her by the river
I swear I left her safe and sound
I need to make it to the river
And leave this old Nebraska town
 
I think about my life gone by
And how it's done me wrong
There's no escape for me this time
All of my rescues are gone, long gone
 
I swear I left her by the river
I swear I left her safe and sound
I need to make it to the river
And leave this old Nebraska town

Lukasin ketjun läpi, ja hämmästelin sitä että Trio Niskalaukauksen biisejä on listattu jo useampi, mutta ei Rajaportin päättävää Jäähyväiset -kappaletta.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlXVqs9j8Mc
 
Me emme tiedä
Mikä harhaan käänsi pään
Mikä voima veti
Valokiilaan lähestyvään
Rekan alle
Viimeinen huuto hukkuu
Ei vielä poika tiedä mitään
Kun kotona nukkuu
 
Jää talon ovi auki
Se odottaa palaavaa
Viima huoneessa
Kynttilät sammuttaa
Poika herää
Kylmän syleilyyn
Ei tiennyt vielä kynttilöiden
Pöydällä saavan syyn
 
On isä mennyt
Ja poika käsittää nyt
Ettei voi milloinkaan
Ei neuvoa antaa
Ei elon taakkaa kantaa
Ei enää milloinkaan
 
Jos voisi viimeisen tunnin
Jotenkin saada takaisin
Kiittää vai hyvästellä
Kuinka sen ajan jakaisi
Vaan ei saa enää nähdä
Poika isää poislähtevää
Pihaan jäi vain jalanjäljet
Myös meistä jäljet toisiimme jää

The Smithsin I know it's over.
 
Biisissä on jokseenkin perus synkistelykohtia, kuten:
Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well, enough said
I know it's over still I cling
I don't know where else I can go, mother
 
Eli yksinäisyyttä ja avunhuutoja, mutta mikä mulle tässä biisissä on se kaikista vaikuttavin juttu, on rakkauden kaipuu. Ja vielä kauniimpaa on se, että Morrissey hyväksyy ettei tule saavuttamaan tätä rakkautta. Morrisseyn rakkaus menee kuitenkin hänen omien intressiensä ulkopuolelle:
Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
Although she needs you more than she loves you
 
Tämä rakkaus on siis "valinnut" jonkun vähemmän herkän ja ehkä ns. perinteisemmän miehen vierelleen. Morrisseymme jää yksin taas kerran:
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real
And you even spoke to me and said:
 
"If you're so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight?
And if you're so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight?
If you're so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight?
If you're so very good looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight?
I know because tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight
With your triumphs and your charms
While they are in each other's arms"

Skid Rown 18 And Life kuuluu ehdottomasti tähän ketjuun. Varsinkin tuo väliosa ennen viimeistä kertosäettä saa ihon kananlihalle, ja tietysti biisin loppu.
 
Ricky was a young boy
He had a heart of stone
Lived 9 to 5 and worked his
Fingers to the bone
 
Just barely out of school
Came from the edge of town
Fought like a switchblade
So no one could take him down
 
He had no money, ooh
No good at home
He walked the streets a soldier
And he fought the world alone
And now it's
 
Chorus
Eighteen and life you got it
Eighteen and life you know
Your crime is time and it's
Eighteen and life to go
Eighteen and life you got it
Eighteen and life you know
 
Your crime is time and it's
Eighteen and life to go
 
Tequila in his heartbeat
His veins burned gasoline
It kept his motor runnin'
But he never kept it clean
 
They say he loved adventure
Ricky's the wild one
He married trouble
Had a courtship with a gun
 
Bang, bang! Shoot 'em up
the party never ends
You can't think of dying
When the bottle's your best friend
And now it's
 
Chorus
 
"Accidents will happen"
They all heard Ricky say
He fired his six-shot to the wind
That child blew a child away
 
Chorus

Ursula (The Swansea Song) / Barclay James Harvest
 
I once loved a lady who did change into a child
I saw the light of day shine in her eyes
I loved her like a baby and I raised her to the sky
It seems the light of day did pass me by
 
Now she walks along the seashore
And she listens to the sea
But I can't say if she ever thinks of me
 
If I were of the ocean
Or a wave upon the sand
Or just a drop of water in her hand
A pebble or a broken shell
A rock upon the shore
I doubt if I could love her any more
 
Now she walks along the seashore
And she listens to the sea
And I can't say if she ever thinks of me
No I can't say if she ever thinks of me

Väittäisin tämän olevan yksi traagisimmista tositapahtumiin perustuvista teksteistä.
 
Tupac Shakur: "Brenda's Got A Baby"
 
Brenda's got a Baby
Brenda's got a Baby
 
I hear Brenda's got a baby
But, Brenda's barely got a brain
A damn shame
The girl can hardly spell her name
(That's not our problem, that's up to Brenda's family)
Well let me show ya how it affects the whole community
Now Brenda really never knew her moms and her dad was a
junky
Went in death to his arms, it's sad
Cause I bet Brenda doesn't even know
Just cause your in the ghetto doesn't mean ya can't grow
But oh, that's a thought, my own revelation
Do whatever it takes to resist the temptation
Brenda got herself a boyfriend
Her boyfriend was her cousin, now lets watch the joy end
She tried to hide her pregnancy, from her family
Who didn't really care to see, or give a damn if she
Went out and had a church of kids
As long as when the check came they got first dibs
Now Brenda's belly is gettin bigger
But no one seems to notice any change in her figure
She's 12 years old and she's having a baby
In love with the molester, who's sexing her crazy
And yet she thinks that he'll be with her forever
And dreams of a world with the two of them are together,
whatever
He left her and she had the baby solo, she had it on the
bathroom floor
And didn't know so, she didn't know, what to throw away and
what to keep
She wrapped the baby up and threw him in the trash heep
I guess she thought she'd get away
Wouldn't hear the cries
She didn't realize
How much the the little baby had her eyes
Now the baby's in the trash heep balling
Momma can't help her, but it hurts to hear her calling
Brenda wants to run away
Momma say, you makin' me lose pay, the social workers here
everyday
Now Brenda's gotta make her own way
Can't go to her family, they won't let her stay
No money no babysitter, she couldn't keep a job
She tried to sell crack, but end up getting robbed
So now what's next, there ain't nothing left to sell
So she sees sex as a way of leaving hell
It's paying the rent, so she really can't complain
Prostitute, found slain, and Brenda's her name, she's got a baby
 
Baby
 
(don't you know she's got a baby)
(don't you know she's got a baby)
(don't you know she's got a baby)
(don't you know she's got a baby)
(don't you know she's got a baby)
(don't you know she's got a baby)

HaloOfFlies: Skid Rown 18 And Life kuuluu ehdottomasti tähän ketjuun. Varsinkin tuo väliosa ennen viimeistä kertosäettä saa ihon kananlihalle, ja tietysti biisin loppu.

 
Tätä olin tulossa sanomaan. Samoin Sixx A.M. - Van Nuys on kolahtanut mulle.
 
I don't want to die out here in the valley
Waiting for my luck to change
And I just want my dad to know
That I finally made it
 
Everybody gets high
Everybody gets low
Everybody gets bruised
Everybody gets sold
 
I don't want to die out here in the valley
You don't have to lie, I know that's what I'll do
I don't want my mom to know
That I never loved my life and I sold my soul
 
Everybody gets high
Everybody gets low
Everybody gets bruised
Everybody gets sold
 
Everybody gets dark
Everybody unfolds
Everybody gets high
Everybody gets so low
 
And everyone's eyes are blue
And everyone's mouth is dry
And nobody wants to die
In Van Nuys, Van Nuys
 
Everybody gets high
Everybody gets low
Everybody gets bruised
Everybody gets sold
 
Everybody gets dark
Everybody unfolds
Everybody gets high
Everybody gets so low
 
Everyone's eyes are blue
And everyone's mouth is dry
Nobody wants to die
In Van Nuys, Van Nuys

Jimi Hendricks:
 
Hey Joe, where you going' with that gun in your hand
Hey Joe, I said where you goin' with that gun in your hand
I'm going' down to shoot my ol' lady
I caught her messing' 'round with another man
 
Yeah, I'm going' down to shoot my ol' lady now
You know I caught her messing' 'round with another man
And that ain't too cool
 
Hey Joe, hey, Joe, I heard you shot your woman down
Hey Joe, hey, Joe, I heard you shot your woman down, baby
He said, "Yeah, I did it, yes I did, I shot her
You know I caught her messing' 'round with another man"
 
Yes I did, I shot her
 
You know I caught my her messing' 'round with another man
 
Yeah, and I gave her the gun
 
Hey Joe, hey Joe
Where you gonna run to, now where you gonna run to now
Hey Joe, hey Joe
Lord, where you gonna run to, now where you gonna run to, baby
 
I'm going' way down south, way down south
Way down to Mexico way, yeah
I'm going' way down south, way down south, baby
Way down where I can be free
 
Ain't no one gonna mess with me there, baby
Ain't no hang-man gonna
He ain't gonna put a rope, a rope around me, yeah
You better believe it, baby
 
Hey, Joe, you better run on down, you better
Goodbye everybody

Bob Dylan, The Ballad of Donald White
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvE50MfGrDo
 
My name is Donald White, you see
I stand before you all
I was judged by you a murderer
And the hangmans knot must fall
I will die upon the gallows pole
When the moon is shining clear
And these are my final words
That you will ever hear
 
I left my home in Kansas
When I was very young
I landed in the old Northwest
Seattle, Washington
Although Id a-traveled many miles
I never made a friend
For I could never get along in life
With people that I met
 
If I had some education
To give me a decent start
I might have been a doctor or
A master in the arts
But I used my hands for stealing
When I was very young
And they locked me down in jailhouse cells
Thats how my life begun
 
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners
I found they were my kind
And it was there inside the bars
I found my peace of mind
But the jails they were too crowded
Institutions overflowed
So they turned me loose to walk upon
Lifes hurried tangled road
 
And theres danger on the ocean
Where the salt sea waves split high
And theres danger on the battlefield
Where the shells of bullets fly
And theres danger in this open world
Where men strive to be free
And for me the greatest danger
Was in society
 
So I asked them to send me back
To the institution home
But they said they were too crowded
For me they had no room
I got down on my knees and begged
Oh, please put me away
But they would not listen to my plea
Or nothing I would say
 
And so it was on Christmas Eve
In the year of 59
It was on that night I killed a man
I did not try to hide
The jury found me guilty
And I wont disagree
For I knew that it would happen
If I wasnt put away
 
And Im glad Ive had no parents
To care for me or cry
For now they will never know
The horrible death I die
And Im also glad Ive had no friends
To see me in disgrace
For theyll never see that hangmans hood
Wrap around my face
 
Farewell unto the old north woods
Of which I used to roam
Farewell unto the crowded bars
Of whichve been my home
Farewell to all you people
Who think the worst of me
I guess youll feel much better when
Im on that hanging tree
 
But theres just one question
Before they kill me dead
Im wondering just how much
To you I really said
Concerning all the boys that come
Down a road like me
Are they enemies or victims
Of your society?

J.Karjalaisen Hoopon joulu
 
Nyt syttyy valot tuhannet
myös tänne Pohjolaan.
Ja taivahalla tähtöset
jo luovat loistettaan.
 
Hessut tuli Chicagoon,
oli joulu -25.
Ja pahvimökkimajotus,
siis käykää sisään, pliis!
 
Siel äijät kylki kyljessä
onku sillit purkissa.
Ja märät vaatteet lemuaa
ja kusi nurkissa.
 
Ei kalifornian plänketti
siellä lämmitä.
Ei kun sekaan nyyttien
vaan koita ängetä.
 
Ja koita sitten nukkua,
kun yksi valittaa.
Ja toinen saarnaa Marxia
ja kolmas Jumalaa.
 
Kylmä on ja väsyttää,
ja suolet kurisee.
Ruotsalainen unissaan
kuin koira murisee.
 
Oi, Betlehemin tähtönen,
luo valos päälle maan!
Tuo joulurauha suloinen
myös majaan matalaan.
 
Ei kurjimmista kurjimpii
ne löydä enkelit.
Ne kurjimmista kurjimpii
vain jahtaa kopperit.
 
Hei, hyvä herra kopperi,
älä pampullasi lyö!
Jos hengissä me selvittäis
nyt tämä jouluyö.