Your favorite song that tells a story (narrative ballad)
I don't know if these songs are narrative songs but I do like Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again and Lay Lady Lay both by Bob Dylan. those songs really make me feel the heart and nostalgia of the South in an peculiar intellectual way. this was not some corny country song it was well thought out and well articulated to the Southern way of life. I stress the Southern part because their is a certain story to be told about the way this region fits in to the rest of the country, past and present and maybe future.
Dylan did a damn good job of doing that in his glory years, he was writing songs that are still timeless and can break so many boundaries and on so many levels. Lay Lady Lay is a song about those sentiments