J-Walk Blog: Songs And Literature

List of songs that retell a work of literature.

"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" by Leonard Nimoy retells J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
"Killing an Arab" by The Cure is closely related to Albert Camus's The Stranger.
"Lay Down" by The Strawbs is based on Psalm 23.
"White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane partially retells Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.