How about Jim Croce's Leroy Brown ... "Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone."

And this line from "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma:" "got a calico cat in a 2-room flat on a street in West LA."

Great piece! I wrote an article about how country music tells great stories - https://cathygoodwin.medium.com/country-music-and-copywriting-that-lonesome-highway-6eb6d05a6379