Only the Good Die Young=Cover sung by SC from Billy Joel

Only the Good Die Young“ is a song written and recorded by Billy Joel from his fifth studio album The Stranger, released in 1978 as its third of four singles. Background “Only the Good Die Young“ was controversial for its time, with the lyrics written from the perspective of a young man determined to have sex with a Catholic girl. The song was inspired by a high school love interest of Joel’s, Virginia Callahan. The boy/narrator believes that the girl is refusing him because she comes from a religious Catholic family and that she believes premarital sex is sinful. He sings, You Catholic girls start much too late, but sooner or later it comes down to fate. I might as well be the one. Attempts to censor the song only made it more popular, after religious groups considered it anti-Catholic, and pressured radio stations to remove it from their playlists.“When I wrote ’Only the Good Die Young’, the point of the song wasn’t so much anti-Catholic as p