# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/21 "2012-05-30T13:29:11Z")
Yes, it’s from Sidney’s _Arcadia_. Wikipedia says he invented it. ---
**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, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/22 "2012-05-30T13:29:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > There was a TV show with my first name. Fairly beloved, though I never got into it. Maude? Barney Miller? Welcome Back Kotter? Oh wait. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/23 "2012-05-30T13:41:00Z")
Not too hard to do. My name has been in the Top 30 of male names since…well, the last 2000 years or so. I prefer the song that calls me big and bad rather than the reference to being an angel. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/24 "2012-05-30T14:18:17Z")
Yep. Pure Prairie League was all over itl. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/25 "2012-05-30T14:28:40Z")
> [@jellyblue](#): > > Yup, an old song too. Old guys used to sing it to me when I was a teenager, which was _mortifying_. Same here, though I like my song and never minded the impromptu serenades. Steve Perry also did a song many years later. Now that one is a suck fest. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/26 "2012-05-30T14:45:52Z")
None that I know of, and I have a common name (it was #1 for American boys’ names for a while, in fact). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/27 "2012-05-30T14:58:49Z")
How many times have I had The Beatles Michelle sung to me? Not enough times, that’s how many! Why aren’t I EVERYONE’S belle? P.S. I always sing it thusly: _Meeeeshell ma’ bell Fo fey fo fey fay fay fo fey fo Fey fey fo fo_ The song really isn’t about me. They spelled my name wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/28 "2012-05-30T15:47:08Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlZ7mTL4jRY) or the more formal [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeYENqBoyjk)? Both songs I love! We also have [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXrcINvsREU). Though I imagine it is unlikely that either of us has the last name Reed. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/29 "2012-05-30T15:50:59Z")
here is one, that I found ages ago by searching for my name somewhere, think it was actually Limewire, lol. And I LOVE THE SONG! Will have to look for it though, or upload it to Youtube myself to share it, as I remember searching for it, or the band, since, with no luck. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/30 "2012-05-30T15:51:37Z")
Mambo Number Five includes my name, among many others. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/31 "2012-05-30T16:18:58Z")
My mother named me after a Rolling Stones cover of a Bo Diddley song. There is also an older, more famous song by Nat King Cole that uses my name, which people used to sing at me. That irritated me - I was _not_ named after a painting, dammit. I abandoned that name about 20 years ago and I’ve been Maggie ever since. There are _lots_ of Maggie songs. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/32 "2012-05-30T16:30:21Z")
I’m Qadgop the Mercotan I’m Qadgop the Mercotan I eat my neutronium and excrete polonium I’m Qadgop the Mercotan ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/33 "2012-05-30T17:21:37Z")
Yup. Apparently, the pipes, the pipes are calling me. ---
**Author:** ![evasgram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ec9cab/32.png) [@evasgram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evasgram)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/34 "2012-05-30T18:37:46Z")
“Stacy’s mom has got it going on” My kids would sing this to me all the time, even though I kept pointing out to them that they were basically calling their grandma “hot” when doing so. It always made us laugh. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/35 "2012-05-30T18:55:34Z")
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t spit into the wind. You don’t pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger And you don’t mess around with 74westy. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/36 "2012-05-30T19:02:32Z")
“Sicks, Sicks Sicks, The Number of the Beast.” ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/37 "2012-05-30T20:00:44Z")
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has my first and last names in it. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/38 "2012-05-30T20:11:55Z")
_And take a message to Biffy, message to Biffy, He sings each night in some cafe…_ ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/39 "2012-05-30T21:55:56Z")
Yes, a Van Halen song. I seem to be cryin’. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512/40 "2012-05-30T22:34:01Z")
There’s a [TV series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_%28TV_series%29) named after me, but I’ve never watched it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-or-poem-with-your-name/623512.md?page=3)