<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" (1978) </Td> <Td> "Only the Good Die Young" (1978) </Td> <Td> "She's Always a Woman" (1978) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" (1978) </Td> <Td> "Only the Good Die Young" (1978) </Td> <Td> "She's Always a Woman" (1978) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Only the Good Die Young" is a song from Billy Joel's 1977 pop rock album, The Stranger . It was the third of four singles released from the album . The song was controversial for its time, with the lyrics written from the perspective of a young man determined to deflower a Catholic girl . </P> <P> The song was inspired by a high school crush 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, </P>

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