# Songs about fictional people **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024 "2009-01-26T05:53:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/41 "2009-01-26T21:55:32Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > Uhm, > > _Superman (It’s Not Easy)_, by . . . . I can’t think of the band right now. _snort_ ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/42 "2009-01-26T21:57:14Z")
Superman (It’s not easy) is Five For Fighting. Tom Sawyer - Rush ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/43 "2009-01-26T22:02:38Z")
> [@TheVioletCreep](#): > > Superman (It’s not easy) is Five For Fighting. Welcome to the joke. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/44 "2009-01-26T22:04:12Z")
The Hollywood Argyles: Alley-Oop. Also performed by the Beach Boys. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/45 "2009-01-26T22:08:25Z")
Iron Maiden’s ‘To Tame a Land’ is about Dune, and mentions some of the characters by name. Anthrax’s “I Am the Law” is about Judge Dredd. Metallica’s “one” is sung from the perspective of the character in “Johnny Got His Gun” Does Johnny B. Goode count as a fictional character? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/46 "2009-01-26T22:15:18Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Romeo and Juliet, Sampson and Delilah - “Fire” by The Pointer Sisters (?) Yep, and written by Bruce Springsteen. Does The Ballad of Lucy Jordan count if it’s a sung version of a Shel Silverstein poem? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/47 "2009-01-26T22:37:26Z")
[The Devil Went Down to Georgia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg) - Charlie Daniels Band ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/48 "2009-01-26T22:46:33Z")
“Daria” by Cake is not older than the TV show _character_ (though “Daria” didn’t start airing until 1997, the character had existed on “Bevis and Butthead” for years at that point). It’s pretty decidedly not about the character, though, either. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/49 "2009-01-26T23:01:44Z")
May be too generic, but Queen did several songs for/about Highlander. Princes of the Universe Who Wants to Live Forever. Gimme the Prize Don’t Lose Your Head ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/50 "2009-01-26T23:26:18Z")
[Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkCTGoE4DY) by the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/51 "2009-01-26T23:27:57Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > [The Devil Went Down to Georgia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg) - Charlie Daniels Band Which is the fictional character? The Devil, or Johnny? If you believe the Devil is fictional (and hey, this certainly isn’t the place to debate it), then it stands to reason we could also include in this thread: “My God” by Jethro Tull ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/52 "2009-01-27T00:22:31Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](#): > > Which is the fictional character? The Devil, or Johnny? > > If you believe the Devil is fictional (and hey, this certainly isn’t the place to debate it), then it stands to reason we could also include in this thread: > > “My God” by Jethro Tull Read the very first post please. If someone wants to do a Biblical characters thread they’re free to, but not in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/53 "2009-01-27T00:31:57Z")
[Absurd by Fluke](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/lafemmenikita/fluke.htm) Mentions: King Kong Spiderman Dan Dare Minnie Mouse Big Bird Judge Dredd Snoopy Tweeite Pie Snow White Captain Kirk Papa Smurf X Men Betty Boop Tin Tin Babar Might Morphin Power Rangers ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/54 "2009-01-27T00:38:39Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Read the very first post please. If someone wants to do a Biblical characters thread they’re free to, but not in this thread. Yes, sorry, my bad. (Now I need to figure out how to edit my own posts to remove that.) My apologies. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/55 "2009-01-27T00:45:39Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](#): > > Yes, sorry, my bad. (Now I need to figure out how to edit my own posts to remove that.) > > My apologies. There’s a 5 minute window for editing, usually used to correct the one inevitable mistake that you missed on preview. When your 5 minutes are up, that it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/56 "2009-01-27T00:49:36Z")
[Cisco Kid](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Kc4GDPNf4) - War **Maid Marian** - [Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkDtTW3F2c) - Squeeze (And **William Tell** may or may not be fictional.) ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/57 "2009-01-27T00:54:07Z")
**The Ballad of Tom Joad** by Woody Guthrie is about the main character from Grapes of Wrath. “Wherever little children are hungry and cry, wherever people ain’t free, whevever men and women are fightin’ for their rights, that’s where I’m gonna be, Ma. That’s where I’m gonna be.” ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/58 "2009-01-27T01:38:20Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Welcome to the joke. 😉 Toosh. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/59 "2009-01-27T02:33:10Z")
[_Otto Titsling_](http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/otto_titzling.htm) – Bette Midler (Just kidding) Otto Titzling vs. Philippe de Brassiere > [@](#): > > French-born fashion designer Philippe de Brassiere began ripping off Otto Titzling’s designs and manufacturing competing products in the early 1930s. Titzling sued de Brassiere . . . In the end Titzling lost the case, not only in the court of law but in the court of public opinion . . . . > > In the words of songstress Bette Midler, “The result of this swindle is pointedly clear — do you buy a titsling or do you buy a brassiere?” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/60 "2009-01-27T04:51:10Z")
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