Hey all!
I have something cool to share today. Last night I checked out the John Wayne/Maureen O'Hara movie,"The Quiet Man" from 1952. (First time I'd seen it by the way.) It's a film set in the 1920's,in O'Hara's home country of Ireland. (Great movie! If you've never seen it,give it a look.)
There's a scene in the film where John Wayne and some local Irishmen are going to have a sort of horse race. At the end of this race the men grab the womens' "bonnets" (hats) off of wooden poles in the ground.
Now the point:The man who announces this race (on horeback)tells the women,"Will all the lovely ladies please put your bonnets up?" (Onto the wooden poles).
Now,if we knew that Gordon saw this film,I would have (and do have) almost no doubt that this is where he got the title to that song.
It just seems too coincidental not to be true.
What do you think?
