This might be in my top 5 favorite songs, ever, in the history of songs. Long, but totally worth it.
30,000 Pounds of Bananas, by Harry Chapin.
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One of my favourite 70s songs, below the fold: "Life's a Long Song", by Jethro Tull, from the 1971 EP of the same name. For some reason the final episode of Battlestar Galacticaput this in my head.
Dude was a genius storyteller. His songs are always worth sitting through.