# Is There a Song or Poem With Your Name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512 "2012-05-30T05:15:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/1 "2012-05-30T05:15:08Z")
Is there a song or poem using your name? I have the poem “Casey at the Bat”: [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15500](http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15500) ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/2 "2012-05-30T05:57:53Z")
My name actually comes from a song. [This one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVlDSzbrH5M), to be specific. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/3 "2012-05-30T06:06:16Z")
Yup, an old song too. Old guys used to sing it to me when I was a teenager, which was _mortifying_. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/4 "2012-05-30T06:15:37Z")
Thre’s a [book.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma) If I was meant to take after her, it so didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/5 "2012-05-30T06:27:13Z")
[This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlZ7mTL4jRY) or the more formal [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeYENqBoyjk)? Both songs I love! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/6 "2012-05-30T06:29:34Z")
There is one I know of, although I don’t really identify with it very strongly. It’s about half a bee. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/7 "2012-05-30T07:16:40Z")
The Beatles covered a song whose title includes my first name, and later recorded a song, written by McCartney, whose title is my middle name. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/8 "2012-05-30T07:33:21Z")
Jain, Jain Bo Bain… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/9 "2012-05-30T07:54:07Z")
Yes. It’s not very good. ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/10 "2012-05-30T07:55:09Z")
Yup. We used to laugh about this with my ex; a Finnish band has written songs with both my name and his name as the title. [Mine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrZDtyPbM08) is quite beautiful. [His](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw_7nX0iQTc)…well, the translated lyrics go as follows: In the field there is a cabin in the cabin there is Matti in Matti there is cancer lallalalallallaa In the corner there is a bucket In the bucket there is shit In the shit there is blood lallalalallallaa. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/11 "2012-05-30T08:14:07Z")
There’s a children’s song about a turtle. I don’t like talking about it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/12 "2012-05-30T08:24:38Z")
Sort of. It’s actually a video with my name in subtitles, while playing an existing song. I’m surprised there’s even that. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/13 "2012-05-30T08:26:24Z")
At least two songs with my birth name, one by James Taylor, one by Ellegarden. None that I know of with my chosen other name (though it’s Gaelic, so there’s like a dozen different variant spellings…one of them might). ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/14 "2012-05-30T09:11:22Z")
No, but I have several songs credited to my name, and my forum name is a custom guitar by alembic. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/15 "2012-05-30T10:52:48Z")
[Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea2EuozaJ7s). Both first and last names make an appearance, but in separate verses. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/16 "2012-05-30T11:07:18Z")
Paul McCartney sang my name back in the days when I hated it and insisted on using a nickname. I eventually got over it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/17 "2012-05-30T11:40:01Z")
Yes. A [song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWflJDaIpAc) that came from a [poem](http://allpoetry.com/poem/8518989-Forgiven-by-A.A._Milne), in fact. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/18 "2012-05-30T12:30:18Z")
Bruce Springsteen says my name three or four times in “Born to Run.” I’m not really a Bruce fan, but I will listen to “Born to Run” in its entirety anytime I come across it so I can hear my name. (I may be a little vain.) The Beach Boys had a fairly lame song about me also. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/19 "2012-05-30T12:36:33Z")
There was a TV show with my first name. Fairly beloved, though I never got into it. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/20 "2012-05-30T12:56:29Z")
Google says yes, but it’s not a poem I’m ever heard before. Ditto for a couple of songs. There’s a Prince song I do know with a common nickname of my name, but I’ve never gone by that nickname. But on a cuter note, I have a beautiful goddaughter named Teaghan (“Tee-gun”). She’s rather reserved as a rule, but one day when she was a wee thing of about 4, her mom came downstairs to see her dancing ecstatically in the living room to “her song”. You know, the one by ABBA? “Teaghan, the Dancing Queen”? To this day, I hear that lyric as Teaghan. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512.md?page=2)