List of Songs That Retell A Work of Literature - W

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• Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album, retelling the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
• "We Are the Dead" by David Bowie is one of many songs he wrote about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, meant to be a song in a musical.
• "When the War Came" by The Decemberists retells Hunger by Elise Blackwell.
• "When Two Worlds Collide" by Iron Maiden tells the same story as When Worlds Collide by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer.
• "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane is based on Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
• "William, It Was Really Nothing" by The Smiths is heavily based on Billy Liar.
• "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush is a re-telling of Emily Brontë's novel.
• "The War I Survived" by Hawkwind refers to Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.