Many songs have been written that may name the muse of the writer, may name the person who gave the writer a particular event in their life or may just be chosen because it rhymes easily with something else. Here is my selection of some of those songs. We’ll start with a man who may not have had the best singing voice but who was the poet of a generation. Perhaps the song I should have chosen would have been Suzanne but then I would have wanted to do the version that Judy Collins sang with him. So, here’s another one that he did alone apart from a couple of backing singers.

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