Ingrid Bergman

This song was written by Woody Guthrie. Woody was absolutely enamored with Ingrid Bergman. I heard Billy speak about the song once; and he'd referred to a few of the double entendres in the song.

"Ingrid Bergman You're so perty" more than just a vernacular fashion of saying she's pretty refers to the fact that she had pert breasts.

He speculated that "you'd make any mountain quiver", "you'd make fire fly from it's crater" and the whole of the third verse may have been metaphors for Woody's "tumescence" was how he put it.

Really sweet song

For over a decade I thought this was the sweetest song of yearning about someone you could never have. One exhausted night during the tail end of a very long road trip, this number came up and it suddenly became obvious. Easily the classiest song about an imaginary hand job ever.

This is such a simple beautiful song about a girl you could never get. Not to be smug, but the girl I thought about when I heard this song, I married.

If there was justice in the world, Woody Guthrie would be mentioned in the same breath as Bob Dylan, Craig Finn, Townes Van Sant, and Bruce Springsteen in the list of great American songwriters.

One of his best poems....

I really love this song. Ingrid Bergman was an actor who's movies Woody would always see in the theater when his Huntington's started settling in. To me, it represents loving someone so much that no matter how impossible it may seem, reality seems to float away as you picture yourself with your dreamgirl and know that it will happen.

A movie called Stromboli (1950) starred Ingrid Bergman, who married a man and they moved to his family home on that island, which is an active volcanic mountain. Seems to me that the song is about that movie, with possible double entendre meanings