Why Can't We Be Friends (song)

"Why Can't We Be Friends?" is a song by the band War from the album of the same name. Along with "Low Rider" it is one of War's most famous songs. The song has a simple structure, with the phrase "Why can't we be friends?" being sung four times after each two-line verse amounting to over forty times in under four minutes. It was played in space when NASA beamed it to the linking of Soviet Cosmonots and U.S astronauts in 1975."Why Can't We Be Friends?" charted at #6 in 1975Fact|date=March 2007.

Uses in popular culture

* The song is featured in the 1996 "Simpsons" episode "The Homer They Fall", which Homer uses as his entrance music to his boxing match in the climax.

* "Why Can't We Be Friends" is sung during the end credits of the film "Lethal Weapon 4".

* An acoustic version of the song is performed by the kids in the music classroom scenes of "Bridge to Terabithia".

* King of the Hill episode Hank Fixes Everything, when the four propane dealers of Heimlich county are counting their money, the song plays in the background.

* The song is featured in the movie Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

* It is sung by Meeper (the main character, a little scrub alien) in a short animated movie from Sony Image Works called The ChubbChubbs!, when he tries to avoid confrontation with who he thinks are the evil chubbchubbs.

* It features in the movie Dazed and Confused.

* The song plays when a fight breaks out on the court in Semi-Pro.

* During an opening scene in Cheats, the song plays as two main characters meet in playschool.

* It is sung by Mei Shan Loh in her short animated film "Journeys of a Panda Face".

*The French mobile phone operator Bouygues Télécom used it for most of its 2008 advertising campaign.

Cover versions

* The song was later covered by Smash Mouth on their album "Fush Yu Mang". This cover version was featured on an episode of "Lizzie McGuire" and on the soundtrack for "BASEketball".

*It was covered by ska band The Pietasters.

* The Muppets did a cover as part of the opening number on The Muppet Show episode featuring guest star John Denver. This version was set in the trenches of the First World War and featured various Muppets in costume from different periods of war (eg Napoleonic Wars, First World War, American Civil War).

*It was covered by Reggae artist Jacob Miller on his album "Tenement Yard".

Chart positions (Smash Mouth version)