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Thread #120038   Message #2607795
Posted By: bseed(charleskratz)
08-Apr-09 - 11:37 PM
Thread Name: People named in songs
Subject: RE: People named in songs
Joe Hill
Hattie Carroll
(Young) Paddy O'Laughlin (The Mountains of Mourne)
John Hardy
Reuben James (actually the ship named after him)
Jesse James and Robert Ford


Jolie Blonde is not a name but a description: pretty blonde.

And as Kent Davis noted, Mary Hamilton of "The Four Marys"--a song otherwise known as "Mary Hamilton":

Tonight there are four Marys, tomorrow there'll be but three
There's Mary Seaton and Mary Beaton and Mary Carmichael and me

And along with Ivan Skavinsky Skavar there was Abdul the Bulbul Ameer

Charles