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* The Alaskan folk song ''Susitna'' is another one where the waiting woman turns to stone.
* The song ''Naturaleza Muerta'' by the Spanish band Mecano, later covered by Sarah Brightman (lyrics can be found [http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb409.html here]).
* Mana's song ''El Muelle de San Blas'' is about a woman who waited for her sailor boyfriend in the titular dock, still with the same dress, presumably until her death. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150504021806/http://www.letrascanciones.org/mana/luna/en-el-muelle-de-san-blas.php?l=en The Lyrics].
* [[The Decemberists]]' folk-inspired ballad ''From My Own True Love, Lost at Sea'' starts out: "Fourscore years / Living down in this rain swept town / Sea salt tears / Swimming round as the rain comes down / Mr Postman, do you have a letter for me? ... From my own true love / Lost at sea"...
** Also "Yankee Bayonet". "Look for me when the sun-bright swallow sings upon the birch-bough high" / "But you are in the ground with the wolves and the weevils all a-chew on your bones so dry ..."
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