What's Your Top 3?: Songs with a woman's name in the title

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No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.

Janie Jones - The Clash
Jolene - Dolly Parton
Sally MacLennane - The Pogues

Honourable mentions:
So Long Marianne - Big Lenny
Proud Mary - CCR
Diane Young - Vampire Weekend
(Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis
Come On Eileen

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Throwing Muses - Pandora’s Box
Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne
Paul Rooney - Lucy Over Lancashire

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Sophia - Laura Marling
Wendy Clear - blink-182
Rosa Parks - Outkast

the folk has been corrected

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Big Thief - Mary
Converge - Jane Doe
Sun June - Karen O

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Emily - Joanna Newsom
Sweet Adeline - Elliott Smith
Don’t Call Me Whitney, Bobby - Islands

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oh for the love of god

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Sonic Youth – Hey Joni
End of a Year – Marissa Wendolovske
Empty Country – Marian

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The Cure - A Letter To Elise
Jason Isbell - Yvette
R.E.M. - Time After Time (Annelise)

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Weezer - Susanne
Chromatics - Cherry
Kendrick Lamar - Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter’s Daughter

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was my least favourite song!

this is a reference not a critique @Funk

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PJ Harvey - Angelene
Joanna Newsom - Emily
Leonard Cohen - Alexandra Leaving

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Hopefully there won’t be a debate when someone says ‘Stephanie/Candy/Lisa says’ by the Velvet Underground.
Anyway, I’ll go with:
Vulgar Boatmen - ‘Mary Jane’, ‘Margaret Says’ and ‘Katie’ (all from their debut album).

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Mudhoney - In ‘n’ Out of Grace
TAD - Sex God Missy
Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song for Karen)

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Tom Waits - Martha
The Cure - A Letter To Elise
Fleetwood Mac - Sara

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Joanna Newsom - Emily
Los Campesinos! - Letters From Me To Charlotte
My Chemical Romance - Helena

honourable mentions all by Taylor Swift

State of Grace, Dorothea, Ivy, Marjorie, Betty

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Sparklehorse - Maria’s Little Elbows
Emma Ruth Rundle - Medusa
Devon Sproule - Julie

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On another day this could well have been my top 3

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Björk - Jóga
PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise
Bob Dylan - Visions Of Johanna

(I could make a top 3 just from songs on Is This Desire? and have choices to spare)
(Honourable mention for Isobel by Björk)

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Alice - The Sisters Of Mercy (see also Marian, We Are The Same Suzanne and But Genevieve)

Esther - The Hold Steady (my wife’s name :heart:)

Ruby Soho - Rancid

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Sure I’ll think of a load that I love more than these but the first three off the top of my dome:

Gretel - Alex G
Ivy - T Swift
Candy’s Room - Bruce Springsteen

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