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Thread #144338   Message #4085225
Posted By: GUEST
27-Dec-20 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Willie Jean' origin
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Willie Jean' origin
in case anyone comes back to this thread: why did I know a version, which I used to sing, walking home alone at 5 AM in the French Quarter in 1968, in which one of the lines became “a young girl’s dream,” instead of “a girl named Willie Jean”? Was that actually me, making it up to fit my circumstances (I did make there)? Or did I pick it up from someone? If anyone knows who, thanks for responding.