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From: pitzonka@daemen.UUCP (Bill Pitzonka)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Re: worst song ever
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 16:57:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 16:57:11 1985
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> Don't think I'd agree that it's even a contender but (and funnily enough
> I was singing it to myself this very morning) the song you're searching
> for is "Mercedes-Benz" off Janis Joplin's "Pearl".  The first verse
> (from memory):
> 
>  "Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz,
>   My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
>   Worked hard all my life, got no help from my friends,
>   Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz".
> 
> There are more verses during which Janis asks for other things including
> a colour TV - can't remember them now - I haven't listened to it in
> years.  Also the song is sung a cappella I think.
> 
> "How can a poor man stand such times and live?"
>           deryk.

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Anybody got the words to the second verse which starts (or so it has been
stated previously):

         Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a colour T.V.
         "Dialing For Dollars" is trying to reach me.
        
      
etc., etc., etc.

Please post them if you have them.  Some of us have been looking for these
lyrics for a long, long time (at least since they played this particularly
bad song on "WKRP in Cincinnati" some years ago).