Red Wing

"Leonard Cohen's Day Job" (Austin Lounge Lizards)

The Ballad Of Anne Frank

Davy Crockett, Colonel Travis, Santa Ana, Jim Bowie, Captain Dickenson (songs about The Alamo)


The Ballad of Aimee McPherson
The Ballad Of Tonya Harding
The Ballad Of Harry Truman (of Spirit Lake)
The Ballad of Dennis Conner

Mother Jones

Pretty Boy Floyd
Clyde Barrow (and Bonnie Parker, whose last name isn't always given in the songs)

Guy Fawkes

Matt Casey (The Band Played On)

Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?

The Virgin Mary

Huckleberry Finn

"From the halls of Montezuma ... " (who I don't think had a last name)

"Goodbye, Norma Jean (... our Marilyn Monroe)" - by Elton John

"The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home" (by Greg Brown)