I maintain that the best noir song ever is Robert Earl Keen's "The Road Goes
on Forever." A Gold Medal novel in 5 minutes. It even has a motel in it.
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Come on! The greatest noir song of all time is POTTER'S FIELD from Tom Waits' 1977 release, FOREIGN AFFAIR, a collection of very noir songs:
"Buy me a drink and I'll tell you what I seen, I give you a bargain from the edge of a maniac's dream, about a black widow spider with a riddle in his yarn is clinging to the ferule of a blind man's brow. And I'll start talking from the brim of a thimble full of whiskey..."
Patrick King
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