My Gal Is Purple (???)
Can some tell me the meaning of the title?
sharePurple is the color of royalty. Maybe it means his gal is his queen? I do not know.
shareOr, who knows, maybe his gal was named Purple. After all, in 1879 the Mexican Dictator's first name meant "purple".
shareInteresting. Thank you for the reply.
shareAnd there was the famous french architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) whose surname apparently means Purple-the-Duke.
And for another interpretation of the song's meaning, see pages 156 to 157 in How the West was Sung here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Gdb-0vyOsVMC&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq=my+gal+is+purple+lyrics&source=bl&ots=DkhYGIGlms&sig=K9Fv2yEYELOYnrFOvMR_B_Rz3C4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3nuTK7sfYAhXO2FMKHTLEB0oQ6AEIXDAJ#v=onepage&q=my%20gal%20is%20purple%20lyrics&f=false
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