List of Songs That Retell A Work of Literature - C

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• "Calypso" by Suzanne Vega is based on one of the scenes in the Odyssey by Homer.
• "The Cask Of Amontillado" by The Alan Parsons Project based on The Cask of Amontillado, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
• "Cassandra" by ABBA is based on the character in the Iliad by Homer.
• "Catch-22" by Pink is based on the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
• "Chapter 24" by Pink Floyd is about the I Ching
• "Chapter Four" by Avenged Sevenfold is based on the book of Genesis: Chapter 4.
• "Charlotte Sometimes" by The Cure is about Penelope Farmer's novel of the same name.
• "China in Your Hand" by T'Pau is based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
• "Christabel" by Robert Earl Keen is based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Cristabel".

"The Clairvoyant" by Iron Maiden is based on Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card.

• "Cent'anni di solitudine" by Modena City Ramblers is based on the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
• "Crimson King" by Demons & Wizards on Touched by the Crimson King is told from the point of view of Randall Flagg the main antagonist from The Dark Tower (series) by Stephen King.
• "Cute Without the E (Cut From the Team)" by Taking Back Sunday is based on William Shakespeare's play Othello.
• "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan) by The Tragically Hip references a passage from MacLennan's The Watch That Ends The Night.
• "The Chronicle of the Black Sword" by Hawkwind is based upon the works of Michael Moorcock, including Elric and Jerry Cornelius. Moorcock, who has appeared with the band on numerous occasions, does the narration on "Live Chronicles".