Songs with girl's names

[Patty]

Dreamboat Annie - Heart

And Poke Salad Annie — Tony Joe White

 

[Oldscruggsfan]

 

[Oldscruggsfan]

Black Water Hattie (the swamp witch)

 

[dgame]

Oh Sheila - Ready For The World

 

[Mike $]

Bobby Bare did a song called Marie Laveau written by the great Shel Silverstein

 

[LorenFL]

Didn't Shel also write "A Boy Named Sue", and "Mama Told Me Not To Come"? (among many others, I'm sure)

 

[KohanMike]

Waltzing Matilda.

 

[badhabits]

Amazing grace?

 

[rcblu2]

Reminds me of this Family Guy clip.

 

[Canada Jim]

Didn't Shel also write "A Boy Named Sue", and "Mama Told Me Not To Come"? (among many others, I'm sure)

"Cover Of The Rolling Stone"
"Don't Give A Dose To The ONe That You Love"
"The Unicorn" (For some reason, this one gets played on St. Patrick's Day, even though it has nothing to do with Ireland and was written by a Jewish guy from Chicago.)
"I Got Stoned And I Missed It"
"Put Another Log On The Fire"
"This Guitar Is For Sale"
"Queen Of The Silver Dollar"
"One's On The Way"

 

[Canada Jim]

Louise by Paul Siebel was the first song my wife ever heard me sing circa 1979. I won her heart with a song about a dead hooker.

 

[LorenFL]

Ran across this one last night. I didn't even know this song had a name:

 

[JJFN]

Laura by numerous jazz artists. Especially the Charle Parker version

 

[dancephoto]

Didn't Shel also write "A Boy Named Sue", and "Mama Told Me Not To Come"? (among many others, I'm sure)

He definitely wrote these two.

 

[Canada Jim]

Laura by numerous jazz artists. Especially the Charle Parker version

Did Parker ever record this with a jazz combo? I have heard it on the record he did with an orchestra (Mitch Miller?). but I always thought I'd like to hear him do it with jazz musicians.
Don't get me wrong; I love Bird in any setting, but this was not my favourite.
I posted the Sinatra version above because I thought that Loren would like a version with lyrics.

 

[Oldscruggsfan]

The Girl (Bonnie) From The Highlands
Balsam Range

Verse 1
I walked down from Inverness in the Spring of ‘23
With a dream for America My Home,
My pretty blue- eyed Bonnie made every step with me,
Scared to death and shiverin’ from the cold.

CHORUS

Verse 2
To the busy streets of Boston in the year of ‘25
Word had come from across the ocean wide
That winter in the Highlands, fever spread like fire
And my pretty blue- eyed Bonnie, she had died.

 

[Oldscruggsfan]

Me and Bobby Magee – Kris Kristofferson (Bobby Magee became a man later when Janis Joplin sang it.)

Thank you for confirming (if only to affirm that my memory isn’t as bad as my hearing) that Kris’s version was first.

 

[Oldscruggsfan]

And Poke Salad Annie — Tony Joe White

My older brother had the 8 track album.

 

[Canada Jim]

Here's another Louise from 1932.

 

[kkimura]

Wow, this is getting hard.
How about Ave Maria?