Wednesday, February 24, 2010

List: Songs With Women's Names

Song for Whoever--The Beautiful South
Celia Inside--The Cardigans
Eleanor Rigby--The Beatles
Jackie's Strength--Tori Amos
Lucille--Gram Parsons
Sweet Jane--Cowboy Junkies
Jane Says--Jane's Addiction
Sweet Caroline--Neil Diamond
Julia--Taken by Trees
Delia's Gone--Johnny Cash
Sandy L--Kathryn Williams
Katie Cruel--Bert Jansch
Madonna--CocoRosie
Judy Is a Punk--The Ramones
Judy Staring at the Sun--Catherine Wheel
Polly--Keren Ann
O Yoko--John Lennon
Stephanie Says--The Velvet Underground
Prescilla--Bat for Lashes
Amelia--Joni Mitchell
Sister Margaret--The Acorn
Jezebel--10,000 Maniacs
I Married Sonja--The Wrens
Look at Miss Ohio--Gillian Welch
For Emma--Bon Iver
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy--Leonard Cohen
Jolene--Dolly Parton
Jolene--The Weepies
Hannah's Song--Jim & Jennie & The Pinetops
Good Night Irene--Leadbelly
Diana Ross--The Concretes
Sally--Johnny Flynn
Charlotte Mittnacht--DeVotchKa
O Evangaline--Emmylou Harris
Julie--Jens Lekman
For Elisabeth, Wherever You Are--Tobias Froberg
Sukie in the Graveyard--Belle & Sebastian
Pretty Polly--The Byrds
Bessie Smith--Emily Jane White
Sara--Bob Dylan
Violet--Thao & The Get Down, Stay Down

4 comments:

Elisa said...

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Dirty Diana

"Sara" is also a song by Starship and Fleetwood Mac

Cindy said...

Natasha by Rufus Wainwright

Cindy by Johnny Cash and Nick Cave

I like "Whoever" as a name.

Farrah Field said...

My dad used to sing that Starship song to me, except he said Farrah instead of Sara.

I didn't know about that Rufus song. I'll definitely check it out.

Whoever is: Jennifer, Alison, Philipa Sue, Deborah, and Annabelle. Whoever might be better than Philipa Sue!

steven karl said...

& there's "Sylvia" by the Antlers. Nice Plath-like chorus & and all.