- Yankee Rose (song)
"Yankee Rose" is a rock
song recorded byDavid Lee Roth . It was written by Roth andSteve Vai and was Roth's first single on his1986 first full-length album "Eat 'Em and Smile ". It was recorded as a tribute to theStatue Of Liberty inNew York , USA, as the statue was being renovated at the time, and public interest in the iconic statue was very strong.From "Yankee Rose":
:"Are you ready for the new sensation?:"Well, here's the shot heard 'round the world.:"All you backroom boys salute when her flag unfurls.:"Well, guess who's back in circulation?:"Now, I don't know what you may have heard:"but what I need right now's the original goodtime girl."
The song was Roth's third Top-40 hit (obviously), the first two being covers of "
California Girls " and "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody". It also appears as a radio tune on thevideo game "" on the rock station . A cover of the song is the title song for the video game "Rumble Roses " and "Rumble Roses XX " performed by Teresa James."Yankee Rose" was also the name of a 1920s song written by Sidney Holden and Abe Frankl, and published in 1926 by
Irving Berlin , Inc.ee also
* Yankee Rose, the last words in the "The Satanic Bible" written by Anton Szandor LaVey
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