# Songs about fictional people

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024>\
**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")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/61 "2009-01-27T14:52:18Z")

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> [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](#):
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> **The Ballad of Tom Joad** by Woody Guthrie is about the main character from Grapes of Wrath.
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> “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.”

Bruce Springsteen had **The Ghost of Tom Joad**.

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**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/62 "2009-01-27T17:57:25Z")

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“99 Luftballoons” by Nena mentions Captain Kirk.

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**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/63 "2009-01-27T21:31:40Z")

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I forgot Jimmy Buffet’s “Captain America” and the Mothers of Invention “King Kong”.

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**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/64 "2009-01-27T21:49:37Z")

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_Alice_ – Joan Armatrading, mentions Alice in Wonderland

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-fictional-people/483024/65 "2009-01-28T02:04:25Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> I nominate **Godzilla** by Blue Oyster Cult.

They also did _Nosferatu_.

Procol Harum’s _Whiter Shade of Pale_ mentions The Miller’s Tale, which I always assumed was a reference to Chaucer.

And then there are probably too many songs to list that mention Romeo and/or Juliet. (_Take the Long Way Home_ by Supertramp and _Love Stinks_ by the J. Geils Band, for example)

If band names count, there also Hikaru Genji.

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