List of Songs That Retell A Work of Literature - B

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• "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" by Leonard Nimoy retells J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. "The Bard's Song (The Hobbit)" by Blind Guardian also retells The Hobbit.
• "The Ballad of Skip Wiley" by Jimmy Buffett is a song about the character from Carl Hiaasen's novel Tourist Season.
• "Banana Co." by Radiohead is based on the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
• "Barefoot Children in the Rain" by Jimmy Buffett partially retells Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• "Las Batallas" by Café Tacuba retells José Emilio Pacheco's Las batallas en el desierto.
• "Beneath These Waves" by Demons & Wizards retells the story of Herman Melville's Moby Dick from Captain Ahab's perspective.
• "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by The Divine Comedy is based on the short story of the same title by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• "Big Brother" by David Bowie is one of many songs he wrote about Orwell's 1984.
• "Billy Liar" by The Decemberists relates some of the adventures of the title character of Keith Waterhouse's novel of the same name.
• "Black Blade" by Blue Öyster Cult is based on Elric of Melniboné stories by Michael Moorcock.
• "Bowling in the Hills" by Eddie from Ohio retells Washington Irving's short story Rip Van Winkle.
• "Brave New World" by Iron Maiden retells the story of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, as does Reagan Youth's "Brave New World".