# Songs With Factual Inaccuracies

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 25, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-factual-inaccuracies/632650 "2012-08-25T22:46:51Z")\
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Gordon Lightfoot in “If You Could Read My Mind”… mentions an “old time movie, about a ghost from a wishing well”. (meaning something sad and gloomy)

Unfortunately there **are** no old-time movies about ghosts in wishing wells. Someone looked this up and the only thing that comes close is a goofy Abbot & Costello movie that would hardly be the inspiration for the song.

It’s too bad that there isn’t a real “ghost in a wishing well” movie. Someone should make one.

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