List of songs about criminals
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This is a list of songs about crime and criminals. This can include selling drugs but drug-taking is in another category.
- "18 and Life" by Skid Row
- "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Sufjan Stevens
- "Arnold Layne" by Pink Floyd
- "Bankrobber/Robber Dub" by The Clash
- "Folsom Prison Blues", "Long Black Veil", "Hardin Wouldn't Run" and many others by Johnny Cash
- "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" by The Adverts
- "Highway 29" by Bruce Springsteen
- "I Like Robbin' Banks" by David Allan Coe
- "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." by Sufjan Stevens
- "Little Criminals" by Randy Newman
- "Midnight" by The Monkees
- "Midnight Rambler" by The Rolling Stones
- "New Jack Swing" by Living Colour
- "No Thugs in Our House" by XTC
- "Police On My Back" by Eddy Grant, covered by the Clash
- "Potter's Field" by Tom Waits
- "Pretty Boy Floyd" by The Byrds
- "The Illinois Enema Bandit" by Frank Zappa
- "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" by Morissey
- "Whisky in the Jar" (traditional, best known versions by The Clancy Brothers, Thin Lizzy, Pulp, Metallica)
- "You Know what they do to Guys Like us in Prison" by My Chemical Romance
- "Youth Nabbed as Sniper" by Blondie
