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Thread #120038 Message #2607596
Posted By: Les from Hull
08-Apr-09 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: People named in songs
Subject: RE: People named in songs
The ship Edmund Fitzgerald was named for the person Edmund Fitzgerald, the president of the company that owned her. It's sort of funny that the person with the name ends up less famous than the ship, or indeed the song that was written about the ship.
Hasn't Lord Ranald McDonald taken up a job with some burger company? Bit of a comedown, I reckon.
Molly Malone is now commemorated by a statue in her native Dublin, where she is affectionately known as 'the tart with the cart'.
Of course, Matilda was never a person at all, but a slang term for a swagman's swag - his bedroll and belongings. As far as I know, the writer Banjo Patterson wasn't a musician, his epithet coming from a favourite horse of that name.